Giacomo Bucci

My name is Giacomo Bucci [ˈdʒaːkomo ˈbutːʃi]. After a Master in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Perugia (Italy) and a Master in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University (Netherlands), I obtained my PhD at Ghent University (Belgium) with a thesis on the “Partitive of Negation” construction in early and medieval Germanic languages from a typological perspective. After my PhD, I spent one year as a postdoc at University of Cagliari (Italy), where I worked on a new edition of the Gothic Bible. While my initial interest revolved entirely around early and medieval Germanic philology, etymology, and morphosyntax, I am now shifting towards the interactions between polarity, semantics, and morphosyntax from a typological perspective. Currently, I am interested in the development of the Jespersen Cycle in a comparative perspective between Old French and Middle High German, as well as about the notion of negative polarity items (NPIs) from a typological perspective.