Pier Marco Bertinetto
Emeritus professor
Born 1947, Pier Marco Bertinetto completed his studies in Torino. He taught History of the Italian Language at the University of Torino (1975-1979) and subsequently General Linguistics, first at the University of Roma I (1980) and then at Scuola Normale Superiore (from 1981 to his retirement in 2017), where he directed the Laboratorio di Linguistica “Giovanni Nencioni”.
Editor-in-Chief of the Italian Journal of Linguistics (1989-).
Member of: Academia Europaea, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia (Finnish Accademy of Sciences), Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.
President pro-tempore of Societas Linguistica Europaea (2009).
He directed over 40 PhD dissertations and has been external reviewer in over 30 ones in other academic institutions, both in Italy and abroad.
He organized over 20 international conferences.
Main research areas: tense-aspect semantics, typological linguistics, experimental phonetics-phonology and morphology.