• Sep. 2023-Jun. 2024: Visiting Fellow at Collegium de Lyon (Fellowship from the French Institute for Advanced Study) & Associate Researcher at Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2).
• May 2022-present: Adjunct Research Fellow at Language and Culture Research Centre, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns (Australia).
• Feb. 2023-Jun. 2023: Visiting Fellow at the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa.
• Jul. 2016-Apr. 2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Language and Culture Research Centre, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns (Australia).
• Jun. 2013-Jun. 2016: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Laboratorio di Linguistica, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy).
• Apr. 2013: Ph.D. in Modern Languages and Linguistics at Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) with honors (70/70 cumlaude). Dissertation: Inflectional morphology in the Zamucoan languages. Supervisor: Prof. Pier Marco Bertinetto.

Selected publications

• Ciucci, Luca 2024. Onomatopoeias in Ayoreo. In Lívia Körtvélyessy & Pavol Štekauer (ed.), Onomatopoeia in the world’s languages (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics 10). Berlin & New York: De Gruyter Mouton. 1071-1083.
• Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., Robert L. Bradshaw, Luca Ciucci & Pema Wangdi (eds.) 2023. Celebrating Indigenous voice: Legends and narratives in languages of the Tropics and beyond. Berlin & New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
• Ciucci, Luca 2021a. How grammar and culture interact in Zamucoan. In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. W. M. Dixon & Nerida Jarkey (eds.), The integration of language and society: A cross-linguistic typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 235-287.
• Ciucci, Luca 2021b. How to restructure a grammatical category: The innovative person system of Chamacoco (Zamucoan, northern Paraguay). Folia Linguistica Historica 55, s42-s1. 111-154.
• Ciucci, Luca 2021c. Zamucoan ethnonymy in the 18th century and the etymology of “Ayoreo”. Journal de la Société des Américanistes 107, 2. 77-114.
• Ciucci, Luca 2020. Matter borrowing, pattern borrowing and typological rarities in the Gran Chaco of South America. Morphology 30, 4. 283-310.
• Ciucci, Luca & Pier Marco Bertinetto 2019. Possessive classifiers in Zamucoan. In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & Elena I. Mihas (eds.), Genders and classifiers: A cross-linguistic typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 144-175.
• Bertinetto, Pier Marco, Luca Ciucci & Margherita Farina 2019. Two types of morphologically expressed non-verbal predication. Studies in Language 43, 1. 120-194.
• Ciucci, Luca & Pier Marco Bertinetto 2017. Possessive inflection in Proto-Zamucoan: A reconstruction. Diachronica 34, 3. 283-330.
• Ciucci, Luca 2016. Inflectional morphology in the Zamucoan languages. Asunción, Paraguay: Centro de Estudios Antropológicos de la Universidad Católica (CEADUC). Biblioteca Paraguaya de Antropología – vol. 103.
• Ciucci, Luca & Pier Marco Bertinetto 2015. A diachronic view of the Zamucoan verb inflection. Folia Linguistica Historica 36, 1. 19-87.
• Bertinetto, Pier Marco & Luca Ciucci 2012. Parataxis, hypotaxis and para-hypotaxis in the Zamucoan languages. Linguistic Discovery 10, 1. 89-111.
• Ciucci, Luca & Pieter C. Muysken 2011. Hernando de Alcocer y la Breve declaración del Arte y Bocabulario de la lengua del Ynga conforme al estilo y vso de la provincia de Quito. El más antiguo manuscrito de quichua del Ecuador. Indiana 28. 359-393.

A complete list of publications can be found at https://cv.hal.science/luca-ciucci

Historical linguistics
History of linguistics
Language contact
Language documentation and description
Linguistic typology
Morphology
Morphosyntax
Philology
South American languages