Luca Ciucci studied linguistics as Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, in Italy. Moved by a passion for learning new languages, in September 2007 he began his research on the Zamucoan languages (Ayoreo, Chamacoco and Old Zamuco) with a special focus on morphology and the genetic relationships between these languages spoken in southern Bolivia and northern Paraguay. In 2009 he discovered the earliest grammar of Ecuadorian Quechua. His doctoral dissertation, defended in April 2013, concerned the study of the morphology in Zamucoan and his recent book Inflectional morphology in the Zamucoan languages (published by CEADUC) is considered the most detailed morphological description of a South American language family. He is now working on a descriptive grammar of Chamacoco (Ebitoso), an endangered and undescribed language spoken in Paraguay by approximately 1,800 speakers. He aims at preserving a part of our cultural heritage through language documentation. He is also working on the reconstruction of Proto-Zamuco and on an up-dated grammar of Old Zamuco, now extinct, based on the data collected by the Jesuit missioner Ignace Chomé in the 18th century. In May 2017 he began the documentation of Chiquitano (aka Bésɨro), with a particular focus on language contact between Chiquitano and the surrounding languages, and the evolution of Chiquitano through the comparison between different Chiquitano varieties spoken nowadays and the historical documents available on this language.

For more information: http://www.cairnsinstitute.jcu.edu.au/luca-ciucci/

Research Disciplines

• Linguistics (2004)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding Knowledge (9701)

Awards

• 2005 - Winner of a full-time scholarship at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa), Economic Sciences.
• 2015 to 2016 - Young Researcher Grant from Scuola Normale Superiore for the project "Critical edition and linguistic comment of Chomé’s Vocabulario de la lengua zamuca" (Principal Investigator).
• 2014 to 2015 - Young Researcher Grant from Scuola Normale Superiore for the project "Language contact in the Chaco linguistic area: morphological borrowing in and from the Zamucoan family" (Principal Investigator).
• 2014 - Prize for the best presentation by young scholars (category Post-docs) at "Chronos, 11th th International Conference on Actionality, Tense, Aspect, Modality/Evidentiality". Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. June 16-18, 2014.
• 2013 to 2014 - Young Researcher Grant from Scuola Normale Superiore for the project "Lexicographical and Morphological Studies on Ancient Zamuco and its Dialects" (Principal Investigator).
• 2008 to 2012 - Winner of a Ph.D. position with full-time scholarship at Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa).
• 2005 to 2008 - Winner of a full-time scholarship at Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), Litterary Studies (Classe di Lettere).

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Journal Articles

• Bertinetto P, Ciucci L and Farina M (2019) Two types of morphologically expressed non-verbal predication. Studies in Language, 43 (1). pp. 120-197
• Ciucci L (2019) A culture of secrecy: the hidden narratives of the Ayoreo. International Journal of Language and Culture, 6 (1). pp. 175-194
• Ciucci L and Bertinetto P (2017) Possessive inflection in Proto-Zamucoan. Diachronica, 34 (3). pp. 283-330
• Ciucci L and Bertinetto P (2015) A diachronic view of Zamucoan verb inflection. Folia Linguistica Historica, 36 (1). pp. 19-87
• Ciucci L (2014) Tracce di contatto tra la famiglia zamuco (Ayoreo, Chamacoco) e altre lingue del Chaco: prime prospezioni [Traces of contact between the Zamucoan family (Ayoreo, Chamacoco) and other languages of the Chaco: first observations]. Quaderni del Laboratorio di Linguistica della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 13. pp. 1-52
• Ciucci L (2013) Lenguas Zamuco [Zamuco languages]. Suplemento Antropológico, 48 (1). pp. 165-177
• Bertinetto P and Ciucci L (2012) Parataxis, hypotaxis and para-hypotaxis in the Zamucoan languages. Linguistic Discovery, 10 (1). pp. 89-111
• Ciucci L and Muysken P (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 [Hernando de Alcocer and the Short Declaration of the Grammar and D. Indiana, 28. pp. 359-393
• Ciucci L (2010) La flessione possessiva del chamacoco / The possessive inflection of Chamacoco. Quaderni del Laboratorio di Linguistica della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 9 (2).
• Ciucci L (2010) La flessione possessiva dell’ayoreo / The possessive inflection of Ayoreo. Quaderni del Laboratorio di Linguistica della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 9 (2).

Books

• Ciucci L (2016) Inflectional Morphology in the Zamucoan Languages. Biblioteca Paraguaya de Antropologia, 103. Centro de Estudios Antropológicos de la Universidad Católica (CEADUC), Asunci�n, Paraguay

Conference Papers

• Ciucci L (2018) Lexicography in the Eighteenth-century Gran Chaco: the Old Zamuco Dictionary by Ignace Chomé. Proceedings of the XVIII EURALEX International Congress. 17-21 July 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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