Visiting Scholars

Giulio Imberciadori is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and is enrolled as a Lecturer on contract at the University of Trento for the academic year 2025/26. After having been trained as a Classicist and an Indo-Europeanist at the University of Trento and the LMU, he earned his PhD at LMU in May 2023. His PhD thesis — which has been published as a monograph in September 2025 — is a synchronic and diachronic analysis of over 200 Tocharian adjectives.

He specializes in Indo-European comparative-historical linguistics, with particular focus on Tocharian, the Classical languages (Latin and Ancient Greek) as well as (Ancient) Albanian. He is especially interested in research questions involving historical phonology, derivational morphology, diachronic semantics, and etymology. He is currently contributing to the creation of a new digital etymological dictionary of Ancient Albanian, as part of the DFG-founded project DPEWA (Digitales philologisch-etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altalbanischen, 15.–18. Jh.) at LMU.

His teaching activity embraces classes on general and historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, and language morphology.

Lorenzo Toniolo is a PhD candidate in Language Acquisition at the Department of Romanistik (Goethe University Frankfurt). His research focuses on the acquisition of negation in L2 and on the cross-linguistic comparison of negative concord and negative polarity items.

He completed his Master in Linguistics (University of Padova), with a thesis entitled “The position of the particles in verb plus particle structures: a study on Cimbrian peculiarities”. In this work he proposes a syntactic analysis of the new data collected in Luserna (TN) in cooperation with the Kulturinstitut Lusérn.

He is interested in the theoretical and applied aspects of multilingualism, minority languages, and migration.