Ilaria Fiorentini (PhD, University of Pavia, 2014) is a post–doc researcher at the University of Bologna. Her research interests include pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and language contact. She has authored a monograph on the system of discourse markers in Ladin, a minority language in intensive contact with Italian (“Segnali di contatto. Italiano e ladino nelle valli del Trentino–Alto Adige”, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2017).
