Introduction

is an Associate Professor of German Language and Linguistics at the University of Milan. He studied Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and earned a PhD in German Linguistics from the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on the interface between lexicon and syntax within German linguistics, drawing on Construction Grammar, Valency Grammar, and Cognitive Linguistics. He also works in applied areas such as contrastive linguistics (German–Italian and other Romance languages), phraseology, bilingual lexicography, and German as a foreign language. He has participated in and coordinated several national and international projects. He is a member of the Executive Board of Europhras and of the International Scientific Council of the IDS.

is an Associate Professor of German Language and Linguistics at the Department of Humanities, University of Pavia. She obtained her PhD in German Linguistics in 2008 at the University of Pisa, specialising in German-Italian lexicography. From 2008 to 2018 she worked as a lecturer at the University of Pisa, and from 2018 to October 2025 at the University of Milan. In 2017, she received a Humboldt Research Fellowship and conducted research at the University of Mannheim. In 2019, she was a DAAD fellow at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language. She has co-edited Korpora DaF (KorDaF) since 2021 and the series KORLING since 2026. She was an Associated Investigator in the COPLUS project (2023–2026) and has been a board member of Euralex since 2024.

received her PhD from the University of Milan in 2022 and is currently a Junior Assistant Professor of German Language and Linguistics at the University of Bologna. In 2020/21, she was a DAAD fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim; in 2024/25, she held a research fellowship at the TU Berlin and at the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien (MMZ) in Potsdam, funded by a Marco Polo scholarship from the University of Bologna. She has participated in various national and international research projects and authored numerous publications. In 2025 she published her first monograph, Erzählen und Wiedererzählen. Analyse narrativer Rekonstruktion in mehrfachen Interviews mit deutschsprachigen Migrant:innen in Israel (Verlag für Gesprächsforschung). Her research interests include Conversation Analysis, corpus linguistics, and languages for specific purposes.