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Prof. Dr. Anna-Maria De Cesare Greenwald

Romance Linguistics

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Chair of Romance Linguistics (French/Italian)

Vita

1995	Licence ès Lettres, Italian - General Linguistics - Anthropology, Université de Genève
1999 - 2001	Lecturing Fellow, Italian, Duke University (Durham, NC), USA
2001	Doctorat ès Lettres (PhD), General Linguistics, Université de Genève
2003 - 2007	Research Associate of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Postdoc), Université de Lausanne
2007 - 2009	Research Associate of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Postdoc), University of Basel
2013	Habilitation, Venia docendi in General and Italian Linguistics, University of Basel
2011 - 2015	Swiss National Science Foundation Professor, University of Basel
2015 - 2018	Renewal as a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor at the University of Basel, University of Basel
2017	Titular Professor, General and Italian Linguistics, University of Basel
2017 - 2018	Deputy Professor, Italian Philology, University of Helsinki
2019 - 2021	Lecturer, Italian Linguistics, Università della Svizzera italiana
2020 - 2021	Research Associate of the Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Basel
Since 2021	Chair of Romance Linguistics (French-Italian), TU Dresden (W3)
2021-2024	Equal Opportunities Officer of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, TU Dresden
Since 14.02.2023	Representative of the academic staff of TUD in the EUTOPIA Faculty & Staff Council
Since 06.07.2023	Managing Director of the Center for Italian Studies
Winter semester 2023-24/Summer semester 2024	Deputy Director of the Institute of Romance Studies
02./03.2024	Visiting Scholar at the Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
WiSe2024-25/SoSe2025	Director of the Institute of Romance Studies, TU Dresden
Since 04.2024	Member of the committee for the entrance examination for the acquisition of a university entrance qualification at TU Dresden
Since 01.01.2025	Member of the Faculty Council (Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies)
Winter semester 2025-26/Summer semester 2026	Deputy Managing Director of the Institute of Romance Studies, TU Dresden
01.01.2026/31.12.2026	Vice President of the Italian Linguistics Society

Research Funding | Acquisition of third-party-funding | Research stays abroad

PhD scholarship, Collegio Ghislieri, Università degli Studi di Pavia; 9.1995-9.1996.
PhD scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Freie Universität Berlin; 9.1997-8.1998.
PhD scholarship, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; 9.1998-8.1999.
Postdoc scholarship, Fonds Charles Bally, Société Académique de Genève; Visiting Scholar, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 8.2002-7.2003.
Postdoc scholarship, Research Fund for Junior Researchers, Universität Basel, 9.2009-8-2010.
Principal investigator, Italian Constituent Order in a Contrastive Perspective (ICOCP); 9.2011-8.2015, http://p3.snf.ch/Project-133716.
Principal investigator, Italian Sentence Adverbs in a Contrastive Perspective (ISAaC); 9.2015-8.2017, http://p3.snf.ch/Project-159273
Principal investigator, Generate-IT. LLM-Generierte Texte auf Italienisch: Eine Linguistische Studie; 01.09.2025-31.08.2028; DFG - GEPRIS - Generate-IT. LLM-Generierte Texte auf Italienisch: Eine Linguistische Studie.

Awards and honours

Doctorat ès Lettres (PhD), General Linguistics, Summa cum Laude (Geneva: "mention très honorable"), 2001.
Prix Fonds Charles Bally for doctoral thesis, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Genève, 2004.
Italian Constituent Order in a Contrastive Perspective (ICOCP)
De Cesare, A. (recipient:in), 2011

Award: Funding/scholarship ' Research projects/networks
Elected member of AcademiaNet.org, 2012. https://www. academia-net.org/profil/prof-anna-maria-de-cesare-greenwald/1163433
Italian Sentence Adverbs in a Contrastive Perspective (ISAaC)
De Cesare, A. (Recipient:in), 2015

Award: Funding/scholarship ' Research projects/networks

Publications

Complete list of publications (also before 2021)

Monographs

7 Entries

2026

L’italiano sintetico dell’intelligenza artificiale generativaDe Cesare, A., 1 Mar 2026, Firenze: Franco CesatiResearch output: Book/Report/Anthology > Monograph

2025

AI-Driven Linguistic Studies: From Text Simplification to Implicit Content DetectionDe Cesare, A., Bambini, V. & Tavosanis, M., Dec 2025, 2 ed., AI-Linguistica. Linguistic Studies on AI-Generated Texts and DiscoursesResearch output: Book/Report/Anthology > Monograph

2024

Lingua inclusiva: forme, funzioni, atteggiamenti e percezioniDe Cesare, A. & Giusti, G., 13 Dec 2024, Venice: Venice University Press, 250 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Book/Report/Anthology > Monograph
Manual of Romance Word ClassesDe Cesare, A. & Salvi, G., 21 Aug 2024, Berlin: De Gruyter Brill, 860 p.Research output: Book/Report/Anthology > Monograph

2023

Forme della scrittura italiana contemporanea in prospettiva contrastiva.: La componente testualeDe Cesare, A., Ferrari, A., Pecorari, F. & Lala, L., 2023, Firenze: Franco CesatiResearch output: Book/Report/Anthology > Monograph

2019

Le parti invariabili del discorsoDe Cesare, A., 2019, Roma: Carocci, (Bussola serie Grammatica tradizionale e linguistica moderna)Research output: Book/Report/Anthology > Monograph

2016

Sintassi marcata dell’italiano dell’uso medio in prospettiva contrastiva con il francese, lo spagnolo, il tedesco e l’inglese.: Uno studio basato sulla scrittura dei quotidiani onlineDe Cesare, A., Garassino, D., Agar Marco, R., Cimmino, D. & Albom, A., 2016, Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 578 p., (Linguistica contrastiva / Kontrastive Linguistik; vol. 5)Research output: Book/Report/Anthology > Monograph

Contributions (to journals, edited volumes, books etc.)

47 Entries

2026

Valutare la naturalezza dell’output prodotto dall’IA generativa: uno studio empirico sull’uso dei suffissi alterativi in un corpus di favole sintetiche e scritte da esseri umaniDe Cesare, A. & Mantovani, G., 30 Apr 2026, In: Linguistica e FilologiaResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Gender biases in GPT-4 short generated biographies. A corpus study on Italian and French anthroponymsDe Cesare, A., 10 Apr 2026, In: Linguistik Online. 144, 3, p. 227-245, 19 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
ChatGPT, bias algoritmici e rischi per la diversità linguistica IIDe Cesare Greenwald, A. & Mantovani, G., 31 Mar 2026, In: LinguisticamenteElectronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to specialist publication > Feature article/Contribution (Feuilleton)
28. Diamesic variation and registersDe Cesare, A., 2026, Oxford Handbook of the Italian Language (OHIL). Ledgeway, A. & Maiden, M. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 25 p.Research output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Chapter in book/Anthology/Report
"Pro-life, neutral or pro-choice?" A cross-linguistic study on informative-presupposition clefts generated by ChatGPT in Italian, French and EnglishDe Cesare, A., 2026, Implicit Manipulation in Public Discourse: Quantitative and Qualitative approaches. Lombardi Vallauri, E., Cimmino, D., Giunta, G. & Mannaioli, G. (eds.). De Gruyter Brill, 25 p.Research output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Chapter in book/Anthology/Report