Publications
forthcoming
"On the relationship between the two manuscripts of the Khotanese Siddhasāra". IRIAB (2024).
"The palaeography of rr and r in Khotanese". Journal Asiatique (2025).
"A comparative study of the Mahāvaidehaghr̥ta in Sanskrit, Khotanese, and Tocharian B". In: Ching Chao-jung and Michaël Peyrot (eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference of Iranian Studies. Panel: History and culture of pre-Islamic Afghanistan (2025), Reichert.
2024
"Action nouns in *-ia- and a new verbal stem jsīn- ‘to kill’ in Khotanese". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (2024), FirstView, pp. 1–10.
"You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Khotanese ysare ‘old age’, śve ‘dog’ and the development of *-u̯āh". Die Sprache 56, pp. 149– 162.
"Sound change or analogy? Palatalisation in the plural paradigm of the Khotanese i-declension". Acta Orientalia Scientiarum Hungaricae 77.2, pp. 253–264.
(editor) Siddham. Studies in Iranian philology in honour of Mauro Maggi, ed. by Gerardo Barbera, Matteo De Chiara, Alessandro Del Tomba, Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā, Federico Dragoni and Paola Orsatti. Wiesbaden: Reichert (Beiträge zur Iranistik 52).
“Allomorphic variation in Khotanese adjectival declension”. In: Barbera, Gerardo et al. (eds.), Siddham. Studies in Iranian philology in honour of Mauro Maggi, Wiesbaden: Reichert, pp. 123–137.
“Bibliography of Mauro Maggi’s works”. In: Barbera, Gerardo et al. (eds.), Siddham. Studies in Iranian philology in honour of Mauro Maggi, Wiesbaden: Reichert, pp. xvii-xxix.
2023
Article review of: Raffaella Bombi e Vincenzo Orioles (a cura di), Ricordando Roberto Gusmani. Atti del Convegno (Udine, 20 giugno 2022), Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2022, 120 pp. In: Incontri Linguistici 46, pp. 151–165.
The Tocharian Gender System. A diachronic study in nominal morphology. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
"Variation and change in the formal marking of Khotanese (II). The genitive-dative singular in Late Khotanese and related problems". Indogermanische Forschungen 128 (2023), pp. 157–178.
2022
"Avestan -āŋhō, Young Avestan -ā̊, Old Khotanese-e and the development of the Old Iranian i- and u-stems in Khotanese". Studi e Saggi linguistici 60.1, pp. 111–171.
"Ancora su problemi paleografici, filologici e linguistici in tocario. Analisi del verso di THT 530 e del paradigma di TB pīto". In: A. Baldazzi, A. Gentile e T. Valentini (eds.), La creatività. Le prospettive differenti e complementari delle scienze umane e sociali. Mimesis, pp. 115–134.
"Variation and change in the formal marking of Khotanese (I). A diachronic study on the genitive-dative singular in Old Khotanese". Indogermanische Forschungen 127, pp. 359–397.
Review of: Thomas Lindner, Urindogermanische Grammatik, Teil ii : Flexionsparadigmen, Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021 [pp. vi + 370]. Incontri Linguistici 45 (2022), pp. 114–117.
"A note on the verbal forms in Mycenaean sealings". Indo-European Linguistics and Classical Philology 26, pp. 277–290.
2021
“Genus alternans in Khotanese? A synchronic analysis of the agreement classes”. Archivio Glottologico Italiano CVI. 2, pp. 164–194.
"A Central Asian Buddhist term: Remarks on Khotanese saña-, Tocharian B sāñ and Tocharian A ṣāñ” [with M. Maggi]. Indo-Iranian Journal 64, pp. 199–240.
Article review of: Ronald I. Kim (2018). The Dual in Tocharian. From Typology to Auslautgesetz. (Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, Beihelf 26). Verlag J.H. Röll GmbH, Dettelbach. [XIII + 186 pages]. Incontri Linguistici 44 (2021), pp. 165–179.
2020
“Metathesis of PIE *-u̯r̥ in Tocharian”. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 74/1 (2020[2021]), pp. 51–85.
“The development of PIE *-oi̯ in Tocharian”. Rivista di Studi Orientali 93 (2020), pp. 21–34.
The Tocharian Gender System. A Diachronic Study. Ph.D. Dissertation, Leiden–Rome.
2019
“Problemi paleografici e linguistici in tocario: figure etimologiche e hapax legomena”. Formamente 2019.2 [2020], pp. 107–122.
“The Origin of the Tocharian A plural ending -äṃ”. Indo-European Linguistics 7 (2019), pp. 1–12.
2018
“On the pronominal feminine plural in Tocharian”. Indogermanische Forschungen 123 (2018), pp. 339–356.
2017
Review of: Melanie Malzahn, Michaël Peyrot, Hannes A. Fellner and Theresa-Susanna Illés (eds.), Tocharian Texts in Context. Bremen: Hempen. [350 pages]. Incontri Linguistici 40 (2017), pp. 184–88.