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In connection to my NWO-funded project SHADES (2023-2028), I study the morphology and the productivity of word-internal schemas in Algonquian languanges and other polysynthetic languages. This research concept originates in my work with Michif-speaking communities in Canada and the USA, in the context of my postdoctoral project (Marie Curie Fellowship – European Union FP7 COFUND).
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2023. Morphological productivity, polysynthesis and the Algonquian verb. In Monica Macaulay and Margaret Noodin (eds.), Papers of the Fifty-Second Algonquian Conference. Michigan State University Press. 161–184.
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2021. Secondary derivation in the Michif verb: Beyond the traditional Algonquian template (Presented with the glossed text of “La pchit Sandrieuz”, Fleury & Bakker 2004). In Danae M. Perez and Eeva Sippola (eds.), Postcolonial Varieties in the Americas. 81–180. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Mazzoli, Maria, Peter Bakker, and Verna DeMontigny. 2021. Michif mixed verbs: Typologically unusual word‑internal mixing. In Maria Mazzoli and Eeva Sippola (eds.), New Perspectives on Mixed Languages: From Core to Fringe. 121–155. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2020. Michif studies: Challenges and opportunities in collaborative language research. Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics 3: 43–63. ISSN 2670-1421
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2019. Michif loss and resistance in four Metis communities (Kahkiyaaw mashchineenaan, “All of us are disappearing as in a plague”). Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 69: 96–117. ISBN: 978-3-95786-200-6
Since my PhD work (2013) on the copular system of Naijá (Nigerian Pidgin), I am interested in language contact, especially the (socio)linguistics of Naijá and other English-lexifier Creoles in the Atlantic area. My interest in language contact also includes other forms of language mixing and the typology of mixed language formation.
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2022. Tone in Naijá: A prosodic experiment on the realization of copular and imperfective /de/ and its consequences for spelling. In Aloysius Ngefac, Thomas Hoffmann and Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.), World Englishes and Creole Languages Today, Vol. 1. München: Lincom Europa. 138–161.
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2021. The ideological debate on Naijá and its use in education. English World-Wide, 42(3): 299–323.
- Mazzoli, Maria and Eeva Sippola. 2021. Mixed languages: From core to fringe. An Introduction. In Maria Mazzoli and Eeva Sippola (eds.), New Perspectives on Mixed Languages: From Core to Fringe. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1–26.
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2017. Language nativisation and ideologies in Ajégúnlè (Lagos). In Eeva Sippola, Britta Schneider, and Carsten Levisen (eds.), Language and Communication 52: 88–101. DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2016.08.008
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2016. Na in Nigerian Pidgin e Krio [English: Na in Nigerian Pidgin and Krio]. In Elia, Annibale, Claudio Iacobini and Miriam Voghera (eds.), Proceedings of the 47th annual meeting of the Italian Linguistic Society “Livelli di Analisi e Fenomeni di Interfaccia”, Roma, Bulzoni. 141–158.
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2015. Property items in Nigerian Pidgin: Verbs or adjectives? [sic, also known as: DE, tone and property items in Nigerian Pidgin]. In Rita Calabrese, Jack Chambers, and Gerhard Leitner (eds.), Variation and Change in Postcolonial Contexts, 79–108. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-7611-7
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2015. Complexity in gradience: The serial verb take in Nigerian Pidgin. In Andrew D. M. Smith, Graeme Trousdale, and Richard Waltereit(eds.), New Directions in Grammaticalization Research, 231–260. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/slcs.166.11maz
- Golovko, Ekaterina and Maria Mazzoli. 2015. Copulas in Italian L2. In Ekaterina Golovko and Maria Mazzoli (eds.), Lingue e Linguaggio 2/2015: 251–270. DOI: 10.1418/81751
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2013. Copulas in Nigerian Pidgin. PhD dissertation. University of Padova.
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2008. Un caso di grammaticalizzazione nel Nigerian Pidgin: La particella preverbale kom [Eng.: A case of grammaticalization in Nigerian Pidgin: The preverbal particle kom]. Rivista Italiana di Dialettologia: Lingue, Dialetti e Società 32: 63–96. DOI: 10.1400/127960
In 2021, I conceptualized (together with Valentina Rojas-Loa) the project of applied sociolinguistics Bremen spricht (‘Bremen speaks’). The main output has been a museum exhibition (which I curated) about multilingualism in the city of Bremen, featuring our team’s original research, the work of local colleagues, as well as the voices of Bremen residents and policy makers. The RUG has supported this project with an IMPACT grant from the Faculty of Arts.
The data from this project are archived in DataverseNL and accessible upon request:
- Maria Mazzoli, 2023, “‘Bremen spricht’: Language diversity and multilingualism in the city”, https://doi.org/10.34894/HKXWVR, DataverseNL, V1.
Below the link to a booklet which summarises and visualises some of the research results about multilingualism in Bremen:
- Rojas Loa, Valentina, Maria Mazzoli, Vittorio Dell’Aquila, Enrico Tolotti, Lena Heins. 2022. “Bremen spricht“. Karten und Datensammlung zur Sprachvielfalt der Bremer Schulbevölkerun. Quelle: Senatorin für Kinder und Bildung, Bremen 2016-2021.
In 2015-2016, I collaborated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in the European FP7 project Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe (MIME), which supported my fieldwork among Portuguese migrants in Andorra.
- Mazzoli, Maria, Marta Lupica Spagnolo and Vittorio Dell’Aquila (forthcoming, 2023). Sociolinguistic awareness as a key factor in reducing linguistic unease: Experiences of migrants in complex multilingual environments of South Tyrol, Andorra, and Vasa. In Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices.
- Mazzoli, Maria. 2017. Ideologies lingüístiques a Andorra: Visions de la comunitat Portuguesa (Catalan translation of Hèctor Alòs i Font) [English: Language ideologies in Andorra: Perspectives from the Portuguese community]. In Kataluna Esperantisto, 367. 11–26.
Edited volumes
- Mazzoli, Maria, Aurélie Joubert, Seonok Lee and Flávio Eiró (2023) (eds), Language Policy and Diversity Management for Social Justice. Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Discrimination, 7(2).
- Where I am publishing: Ganayim, Deia, & Mazzoli, Maria (2023). Linguistic ‘productscape’ and ethnolinguistic vitality: Arabic and Hebrew on milk products in Israel. Journal of Language and Discrimination, 7(2), 293-313.
- Mazzoli, Maria and Eeva Sippola (eds.). 2021. New Perspectives on Mixed Languages: From Core to Fringe. Berlin: De Gruyter. Reviewed by Michael Putnam (Penn State University) on the Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages, 37(2), November 2022, p. 416 – 421.
- Golovko, Ekaterina and Maria Mazzoli. 2015. Copulas. Special Issue of Lingue e Linguaggio, 2. Il Mulino: Bologna. ISBN: 978-88-15-25579-2