Marta Lupica Spagnolo, Dr.

11.2025: Italian national scientific qualification as Associate Professor for the disciplinary field of Historical and General Linguistics (10/G1)

07.2016: Ph.D. in Linguistics, Università degli Studi di Pavia and Libera Università di Bolzano-Bozen (Italy)

03.2015–05.2015: Visiting Scholar, Georgetown University (USA)

11.2011: M.A. in Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

04.2008: B.A. in Modern Literature, Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy)

10.2007–06.2008: ERASMUS, Freie Universität Berlin

Summer term 2026: Multimodal and Art-Based Approaches to Multilingualism

Winter term 2025/26: Linguistic landscapes: exploring multilingualism in Brandenburg

Summer term 2025: Sociolinguistics of second language acquisition

Winter term 2024/25: Minority languages: sociolinguistics and language policies

Summer term 2024: Language contact, acquisition and change

Winter term 2023/24: Italian sentence adverbials: Forms, functions and variation

Summer term 2023: Statistics for linguistics with R

Winter term 2022/23: Statistics for linguistics with R

Summer term 2022: Marginal languages

Winter term 2021/22: Empirical methods

Summer term 2021: Linguistic Landscapes: languages in the public space

Winter term 2020/21: Narrative analysis in linguistics

Summer term 2020: Italian and German in contrast: issues in contrastive linguistics

Winter term 2019/20: Language biographies and multilingualism

Winter term 2019/20 (with Annette Gerstenberg): Introduction to Romance Linguistics

Summer term 2019: Syntax of spoken language

1. “Italienisch „im Transit“: Prototypische Definition und Herausforderungen”, invited lecture for the HU colloquium Multilingualism, Language Contact, Language Variation (11.06.2026), Humbodlt Universität zu Berlin.
2. “Italiano in Transito: acquisizione spontanea e  innovazioni linguistiche in contesti di superdiversità”, invited lecture for the course «Plurilinguismo ed educazione plurilingue» (13.04.2026), Università degli Studi di Udine.
3. “Italiano in Transito: tra fossilizzazione, contatto e innovazione linguistica”, invited lecture for the lecture series Italiano in Germania (10.03.2026), Technische Universität Dresden and Centro di Studi Italiani.
4. “Ländliche Mehrsprachigkeit(en): Von Dokumentation über Sichtbarkeit zu Sprachpolitik“, presentation at Land Lines: Kongress zu Kunst, Kultur und Verbindungen in ländlichen Räumen (06.-07.03.2026), Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature (Münster).
5. "Oltre i confini: voci dell'italiano 'in Transito' a Berlino", Conference/Talk in the framework of XXV week of Italian Language in the world Italofonia: lingua oltre i confini (23 october 2025), Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Berlino in cooperation con l'Italienzentrum.
6. "Exploiting language variation for communicative purposes: Prepositions in Italian in Transit", International Conference Developing new languages in migration contexts (30.09.-1.10.2025), Masaryk University (Brno).
7. "Too many words for much: intensification strategies in Italian in Transit", 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (09-13.06.2025), Donostia-San Sebastián.
8. "Commodification of Italian in superdiverse linguistic landscapes: The case of Italian Restaurants Managed by Non-Italian-L1 speakers in Berlin", with Eugenio Goria, 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (09-13.06.2025), Donostia-San Sebastián.
9. ‘Onward Migration and Italian in Transit Practices from Sub-Saharan West Africa to Western Europe’, with Francesco Goglia, invited lecture (10.01.2025), Italienzentrum at Free University Berlin and Potsdam University.
10. "L’italiano in contesti superdiversi: il caso dei ristoranti italiani gestiti da persone di origine non italiana a Berlino", with Eugenio Goria, presentation at International Conference Linguistic Landscape: sviluppi nella ricerca e impatto sui territori (29-31.10.2024), Università per Stranieri di Siena.
11. "Acquisizione linguistica in movimento: Il caso dell'Italiano in Transito", guest-lecture (09.07.2024), University of Dresden and Centro di Sudi Italiani.
12. "Embodied multilingualism: Narrating migration and languages", Workshop at the International BIP School: "Language and Literacy in Migration Context" (03-07.06.2024), Masaryk University.
13. "Io parlare poco no(t) troppo italiano: Intensificatori in Italiano in Transito", Conference: Quo vadis, italiano 2024? Linguaggi per rinascere: autobiografie e incontri transculturali /In Sprachen wiedergeboren. Autobiographien und transkulturelle Begegnungen (25.–27.04.2024), University of Graz.
14. "Can ChatGPT talk like an older adult? How ChatGTP generates age-specific linguistic variants when prompted with real speaker metadata and metalinguistic knowledge", with Friederike Schulz, Annette Gerstenberg, and Valerie Hekkel, 1st International Conference onAutomated texts in the ROMance languages (Ai-ROM) (28.-29.09.2023), Technische Universität Dresden.
15. "Ciao, tutto a posto, how are you?: domains of use and code-switching in Italian-based multilingual practices in a Berlin park", poster presented at the RUEG Conference 2023 Linguistic Variability in Heritage Language Research (26.-28.09.2023), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
16. “Atelier 2 Langue, culture et identité : plurilinguisme, polylinguisme, hybridation”, with Egle Mocciaro, Ivo Buzek, Ingrid Peruchi, Ramona Onnis, Antonella Ippolito. Workshop at the EDUC Doctoral School Déplacements, dépaysements et décalages, dans les cultures contemporaines des pays de langues romanes (07.09.2023), Universität Masaryk
17. "Italian in Transit: Exploring language uses by multilingual street vendors in a Berlin park", International Conference SPCL 2023: Creoles, minority languages and language contact varieties: Sharing perspectives (26.-29.06.2023), University of Groningen.
18. „(S)confinamenti tra lingue, strategie di apprendimento e (dis)agio linguistico: le esperienze di persone mobili inAlto Adige/Südtirol, Andorra e Vaasa/Vasa a confronto”, mit Vittorio, Dell’Aquila und Maria Mazzoli, LV Congresso Internazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI): Confini nelle lingue e tra le lingue (8.-10.09.2022), Libera Università di Bolzano.
19. „’Mica è facile’: l’uso preverbale di mica in Twitter tra diatopia e grammaticalizzazione”, mit Eman El Sherbiny Ismail und Annette Gerstenberg, XVI Congresso della Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia italiana (SILFI): Tempo e Spazio (31.08.-02.09.2022), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
20. „L’italiano di passaggio: caratteristiche linguistiche e funzioni di pratiche plurilingui a base italiana a Berlino”,XVI Congresso della Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia italiana (SILFI): Tempo e Spazio (31.08.-02.09.2022), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
21. „LangAge Corpora“, mit Annette Gerstenberg, Vortrag am Kolloquium „Korpuslinguistik und Phonetik“ der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (20.06.2022).
22. „Italian in Transit: (Socio)linguistic features of Italian-based multilingual practices spoken by street vendors from Sub-Saharan West Africa in Berlin”,  Conference of the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) 2002: Africa-Europe: Reciprocal Perspectives, Panel: “African immigrants and sojourners in Europe: multilingual (mis)communication” (07.-10.06.2022), Albert Ludwig Universität Freiburg.
23. „Die Sprachen der Anderen Sprach-Einstellungen bei Dante- und heute/Le lingue degli altri: atteggiamenti linguistici ai tempi di Dante e ai nostri giorni",  with Annette Gerstenberg and Eman El Sherbiny Ismail, XXI Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel mondo (20.10.2021),  Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Berlin.
24. „Italian in Transit: Attempting a definition on the basis of distribution and functions of generalized present infinitives",  54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (30.08.–3.09.2021).
25. „Narrative of emancipation through language learning: The case of Ex-Yugoslavian migrants in multilingual South Tyrol",Old and new forms of multilingualism in the Alps-Adriatic region - descriptive models, challenges and possible solutions (25.–26.03.2021), Universität Klagenfurt.
26. “Auf den Spuren des Italienischen als Lingua franca in mehrsprachigen Milieus in Berlin”, Presentation at  28. BIVEM-Kooperationstreffens (04.12.2018), Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Berlin).
27. “Form and function of Italian domain adverbials in a contrastive perspective with Spanish and German. A study based on comparable and parallel corpora”, with Ana Albom, 8th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (26.–28.05.2017), University of Athens.
28. “Ex-Yugoslavian migrants in bilingual South-Tyrol”, Integration, Inclusion, Assimilation and Ghettoisation in the Framework of Mobility (09.–10.02.2017), University of Stockholm.
29. “Series of (proto-)typical domain adverbials in Italian and German. A contrastive and corpus-based analysis of their form, position, and context”, “Linguistically knotty”: Current Issues on Sentence Adverbs (19.–20.01.2017), University of Basel.
30. “Erlebte Sprachräume und Umstrukturierung des Sprachrepertoires zwischen Südtirol und dem Balkan”, Situations of Multilingualism and Policies towards Multilingualism (20.–21.11.2014), Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense.
31. “Quali codici fanno parte del repertorio? Variazioni nei glottonimi e spazi linguistici percepiti tra Alto Adige e Balcani”, The First International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration (25.–26.09.2014), University of Turin, Rapallo (Genova).
32. “Language biographies and reorganization of language repertories between South Tyrol and the Balkans”, poster presented in LINEE+ PhD Training Workshop in Multilingualism Research (28.04.–02.05.2014), Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik.
33. “Autochthone und allochthone linguistische Minderheiten im Kontakt”, poster presented in Winter School Linguistische Zugänge zu Konflikten in europäischen Sprachräumen: Korpus – Pragmatik – kontrovers (18.–23.03.2013), University of Heidelberg.
34. “Morphologische Produktivität in Texten deutschsprachiger interkultureller Autoren. Eine korpuslinguistische Analyse”, IX. Internationaler Kongress der Germanisten Rumäniens (04.–07.06.2012), University of Bukarest.

• Interview on EDUC teaching cooperation " “Linguistic and Narrative Landscapes: Identity, Memory, and Transformation”
• Interview about "Italian in Transit" on the program Cosmo Italiano (WDR Radio)