Francesca Di Garbo

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Affiliations actuelles
  • Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
  • Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL)
  • Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki
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Short bio I'm a language typologist, studying the distribution of linguistic diversity in space and time. In my research, I try to understand the synchronic distribution and evolutionary dynamics of morphosyntactic structures of the world’s languages in light of the interplay between general human cognitive abilities and processes of cultural evolution. My domains of expertise include: morphosyntactic typology, nominal classification systems, number systems, Bantu languages, and the comparative study of contact-induced language change.

Since 2022, I am an Associate Professor (Maîtresse de Conférences) at Aix-Marseille University and the CNRS Laboratory Parole et Langage. Together with Annemarie Verkerk, I coordinate the SocioBaGS project, funded by the French and German National Research Foundations. Our research team investigates how Bantu gender systems vary and change in contact situations, and, more specifically, whether processes of change differ depending on whether languages in contact share ancestry.

I am visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki, affiliated to the GramAdapt team. Since 2019, I am one of the Associate Editors of the Diamond Open Access journal Linguistic Typology at the Crossoroads.

A complete list of publications can be found here.

Teaching At the Department of Language Sciences at Aix-Marseille University, I teach undergraduate and graduate level courses in morphosyntax, language typology, research methods, and epistemology of linguistic research.

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The design principles of a sociolinguistic typological questionnaire for language contact research

Eri Kashima , Francesca Di Garbo , Ruth Singer , Olesya Khanina
Language Dynamics and Change, 2025, 15 (1), pp.1-103. ⟨10.1163/22105832-bja10035⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04904991 v1
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Embracing uncertainty, and the multifaceted soul of linguistic typology: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo

Francesca Di Garbo
Linguistic Typology, 2025, ⟨10.1515/lingty-2025-0028⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05212418 v1
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Contact effects in nominal number systems

Francesca Di Garbo , Panagiotis Kapellis
Studies in Language, 2025, ⟨10.1075/sl.24019.dig⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05212430 v1
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The evolution of gender and number agreement in the noun phrase

Olena Shcherbakova , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Francesca Di Garbo
Linguistic Typology, 2025, ⟨10.1515/lingty-2024-0072⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05212398 v1
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A typological approach to language change in contact situations

Kaius Sinnemäki , Francesca Di Garbo , Ricardo Napoleão de Souza , T. Mark Ellison
Diachronica, 2024, ⟨10.1075/dia.23029.sin⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04628458 v1
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Serge Sagna, Cross-categorial classification: Nouns and verbs in Eegimaa

Francesca Di Garbo
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2024, ⟨10.4000/lla.13158⟩
Article dans une revue (compte-rendu de lecture) hal-04506339 v1
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A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios

Francesca Di Garbo , Ricardo Napoleão de Souza
Linguistic Typology, 2023, ⟨10.1515/lingty-2022-0005⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03984522 v1
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A typology of northwestern Bantu gender systems

Francesca Di Garbo , Annemarie Verkerk
Linguistics, 2022, 60 (4), pp.1169-1239. ⟨10.1515/ling-2020-0217⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03955624 v1
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Sociogeographic correlates of typological variation in northwestern Bantu gender systems

Annemarie Verkerk , Francesca Di Garbo
Language Dynamics and Change, 2022, 12 (2), pp.155-223. ⟨10.1163/22105832-bja10017⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03955649 v1

Faire de la phonétique dans la vallée du Grand Rift Africain

Alain Ghio , Yohann Meynadier , Francesca Di Garbo , Didier Demolin , Michael Karani
Journée d'études "Cultures de l’oral :enjeux de la phonétique expérimentale de terrain", Laboratoire de Neuropsycholinguistique, Département des Sciences du langage, Département de Lettres modernes, Cinéma et Occitan, 2024, Toulouse, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04774217 v1
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Animacy-based nominal classification in northwestern Bantu and beyond

Francesca Di Garbo , Lyne Rahabi , Annemarie Verkerk
Ines Fiedler and Lee J. Pratchett. Areas, families, and pools aplenty: a Festschrift for Tom Güldemann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, pp.163-179, 2025, ⟨10.18452/32624⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05156422 v1

Contact-induced reduction, loss, and emergence of numeral classifiers

Erika Sandman , Francesca Di Garbo
Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania, 362, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.161-199, 2023, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, ⟨10.1075/cilt.362.06san⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04322549 v1