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Maja Milicevic Petrovic

Associate Professor

Department of Interpreting and Translation

Academic discipline: GLOT-01/A Historical and General Linguistics

Curriculum vitae

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Associate professor at the University of Bologna since 2020 (previously at the University of Belgrade), I work in the areas of general and applied linguistics, with a special interest in language contact phenomena in contexts of bilingualism and translation. I teach general linguistics, second language acquisition and courses on different aspects of scientific research methods.

Teaching activities

Since 2009 I have continuously been teaching BA, MA and PhD courses, first at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade and subsequently at the Department of Interpreting and Translation of the University of Bologna. I am currently the lead lecturer in the courses in General Linguistics (Module 2 - Perspectives on human language) and Second language acquisition within the BA degree course in Lingue e Tecnologie per la Comunicazione Interculturale, in Profession-based research (Module 1 - Scientific thinking) and Language data analysis within the MA degree course in Specialized Translation, and in Introduction to statistics and programming for linguistic research (Statistics module) within the PhD degree course in Translation, Interpreting and Interculturality.
I have also taught in multiple seminars dedicated to research methods, and I have (co)created a number of online courses in the domain of linguistics and its research and analysis methods.

Education

  • 2008: PhD, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge
  • 2004: MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge
  • 2001: BA in Italian Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade

Academic career

  • 2020-present: Associate Professor in the area L-LIN/01 - GLOT-01/A, Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna
  • 2016-2020: Associate Professor, Department of General Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade
  • 2010-2016: Assistant Professor, Department of General Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade

Exchanges, scholarships and grants

  • 2022: Erasmus+ exchange at the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Graz, Austria
  • 2018: Erasmus+ exchange at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
  • 2011: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs grant for a research stay at the School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators, University of Bologna
  • 2004-2007: Overseas Research Students Award (ORS) and Gates Cambridge Trust scholarship, for PhD study at the University of Cambridge
  • 2003-2004: Open Society Institute Chevening Cambridge Scholarship for the Eastern Adriatic, for MPhil study at the University of Cambridge
  • 2003: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs grant for a research stay at the School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators, University of Trieste

Projects

  • 2023-2025: UNITE - Universally Inclusive Technologies to Practice English, a Research Project of National Interest (PRIN)
  • 2024-2025: VLingS - Vulnerable Languages and Linguistic Varieties in Serbia, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
  • 2022-2023: !Trans, UNIBO Alma Idea project
  • 2020-2023: UPSKILLS - UPgrading the SKIlls of Linguistics and Language Students, Erasmus+ strategic partnership for higher education
  • 2020: AVANTES - Advancing Novel Textual Similarity-based Solutions in Software Development, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
  • 2018-2021: TraCeBa - (Dis-)entangling traditions on the Central Balkans: Performance and perception, FP7 - ERA.Net RUS Plus
  • 2018-2019: Revisiting research training in linguistics: theory, logic, method, Swiss mobility agency Movetia: Exchange and Mobility
  • 2015-2018: ReLDI - Regional Linguistic Data Initiative, Swiss National Science Foundation (programme SCOPES - Scientific Cooperation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland)
  • 2015: Izrada korpusa i leksikona nestandardnog srpskog i slovenačkog jezika [Construction of Corpora and Lexica of Non-Standard Serbian and Slovenian]. Bilateral project of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia and the Slovenian Research Agency
  • 2011-2019: Standardni srpski jezik: sintaksička, semantička i pragmatička istraživanja [Standard Serbian Language: Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Explorations], Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia

Resources

Online courses

Invited talks and seminars

  • 2024: Errori e “target” linguistici: Apprendimento L2 e traduzione tra regole e tendenze. Invited talk at the PhD conference “Errata corrige”? L'errore in filologia, letteratura e linguistica, 2-3 October 2024, Bologna, Italy.
  • 2023: Language studies of the future: How much language and how much data? Invited talk at the conference CLARC 2023: Language and Language Data, 28-30 settembre 2023, Rijeka, Croatia. 
  • 2019: Koliko je (ne)standardan jezik društvenih mreža? [How (non)standard is the language of social networks?], Young Linuistis' Society, Belgrade, 22 October 2019.
  • 2018: Od teksta do brojki: uvod u statističku analizu jezičkih podataka [From text to numbers: Introduction to the statistical analysis of language data], seminar (with Tanja Samadržić), Faculty of Philology, Nikšić, Montenegro, 28-30 June 2018.
  • 2017: Kako brojati jezik? Uvod u kvantitativna lingvistička istraživanja [How to Count Language? Introduction to Quantitative Research in Linguistics], seminar, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade, Serbia, 21 October 2017.
  • 2017: Empirical data in linguistics: From research design to data analysis, seminar (with Tanja Samadržić), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 21-23 June 2017.
  • 2016: O kompetenciji prevodilaca u maternjem jeziku: Uticaji nematernjeg jezika i meta-lingvističkog znanja [Sulla competenza madrelingua dei traduttori: impatto di lingue seconde e conoscenze metalinguistiche], conferenza, Facoltà di Filologia, Banja Luka, Bosnia ed Erzegovina, 11 novembre 2016.
  • 2016: Count your frequencies wisely! An introduction to concepts and methods in quantitative (corpus) linguistics, workshop (with Adriano Ferraresi), Department of Interpreting and Translation, Forlì, 28 October 2016.
  • 2015: Beyond example extraction: Quantitative analysis of the JANES corpus, workshop, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 25 November 2015.
  • 2015: Govorite li drugi jezik? [Do you speak a second language?], Research Centre “Petnica”, Valjevo, Serbia, 24 March 2015.
  • 2013: Gramatička pravila i statističke tendencije. Usvajanje negramatikalizovanih razlika u drugom jeziku [When rules are but statistical tendencies: Acquiring non-grammaticalised distinctions in a second language], seminar for Teachers of L2 Slovene, Centre for Slovenian as Second and Foreign Language, University of Ljubljana, 26 June 2013.
  • 2013: Genre-based BootCaT corpora for morphologically rich languages, BOTWU: BootCaTters of the World Unite! workshop, University of Bologna at Forlì, 24 June 2013.
  • 2011: Linguistic study of translations and translators. Combining corpus-based and experimental approaches, research seminar in linguistics, University of Geneva, 7 May 2013.
  • 2011: External possession constructions in Serbian, research seminar, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, 18 April 2011.
  • 2010: The acquisition of verbal argument structure in a second language, research seminar, University of Rijeka, Croatia, 8 April 2010.

(Selected) conference presentations

  • FEDOTOVA, A., A. FERRARESI, M. MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ AND A. BARRÓN-CEDEÑO (2024) Expanding the European Parliament Translation and Interpreting Corpus: A modular pipeline for the construction of complex corpora. Paper presented at the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities 2024 Conference, 19-20 September 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ, M., A. FERRARESI AND S. BERNARDINI (2023) Torn between L1 and L2 patterns? Collocationality levels in L2 English production by speakers of L1 Italian. Paper presented at the conference PHRAME: Phraseological complexity measures in learner Italian, 27-28 November 2023, Perugia, Italy.
  • FERRARESI, A., M. MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ AND S. BERNARDINI (2023) Corpus, corpus on the wall, who is the most collocational of them all? A comparison of dependency-defined collocations in learner translations and learner writing. Paper presented at the 7th Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies conference (UCCTS 2023), 10-12 July 2023, Poznan, Poland.
  • MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ, M., R. TRNAVAC AND B. KOVAČEVIĆ (2022) Can linguistic insights on semantic similarity help its automatic treatment? Paper presented at the 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2022), 8-10 September 2022, Poznan, Poland.
  • MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ, M. (2022) Un dialetto e tre lingue standard: confini e annotazione nel caso del torlakiano. Poster presented at the 50th International Conference of the Italian Linguistic Society (LV Congresso internazionale SLI), 8-10 September 2022, Bressanone, Italy.
  • MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ, M. (2022) Educating students for SLA-related research in and beyond academia: Insights from the UPSKILLS project. Poster presented at the European Second Language Association 2022 Conference (EUROSLA 31), 24-27 August 2022, Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • BERNARDINI, S., A. FERRARESI AND M. MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ (2022) A curious mindset and love of experimentation. A corpus perspective on emerging language industry jobs. The 10th EST Congress: Advancing Translation Studies. 22-25 June 2022, Oslo, Norway.
  • MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ, M. AND M. ĐUKANOVIĆ (2021) Defining the modern linguist: UPgrading the SKIlls of Linguistics and Language Students. Paper presented at the Belgrade Linguistics Days Conference (BeLiDa), 3-4 December 2021, Zoom (organised by the University of Belgrade).
  • MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ, M. (2021) UPSKILLS: Towards new teaching resources for a new professional profile. Paper presented at the CLARIN Bazaar – CLARIN Annual Conference 2021, 27-29 September 2021, Zoom (organised by CLARIN).
  • MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ, M. AND D. RADOJEVIĆ (2021) A POS-gram study of case relations in Serbian, Italian and English: The role of articles, inflection and word order. Paper presented at the 6th Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies conference (UCCTS 2021). 9-11 September 2021, Bertinoro, Italy.
  • MIRIĆ, M. AND M. MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ (2021) Variation in the nominal declension in Timok vernaculars. Paper presented at the “Empirical approaches to linguistic variation: The Balkans and beyond” workshop, 11-12 March 2021, Zoom (organised by the University of Zurich).
  • SAMARDŽIĆ, T., M. STAROVIĆ, N. LJUBEŠIĆ, V. BATANOVIĆ AND M. MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ (2021) Indeclinable nominal modifiers in practical morphosyntactic definitions. Paper presented at the conference “Internationalisms in Slavic as a window into the architecture of grammar – INTERSLAVIC 2020/2021”, 24-26 February 2021, Webex (organised by the University of Graz).
  • KRAŠ, T., M. MILIČEVIĆ PETROVIĆ AND P. MEDVED (2020) Online reflexive anaphora resolution in native and non- native Italian. Paper presented at the Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2020, 22 September 2020, Zoom.
  • Ferraresi, A., S. Bernardini and M. Miličević Petrović (2019) Let’s collaborate! Methods and tools for the construction of a complex translation and interpreting corpus. Poznan Linguistic Meeting 2019 (thematic session “Empirical investigations into the forms of mediated discourse at the European Parliament”), 16-18 September 2019, Poznan, Poland.
  •  Kraš, T. and M. Miličević Petrović (2019) (In)stability at the discourse-syntax interface: Evidence from Croatian-Italian simultaneous bilinguals. International Symposium on Bilingualism - ISB12, 23-28 June 2019, Alberta, Canada.
  •  Ljubešić, N., T. Samardžić, T. Erjavec, D. Fišer, M. Miličević Petrović, S. Krek and V. Batanović (2019) The “ReLDI effect’’: Collaborative development of manually annotated datasets for Slovene, Croatian and Serbian. E-dictionaries and E-lexicography, 10-11 May 2019, Zagreb, Croatia.
  •  Miličević Petrović, M. (2019) Digitalizacija jezika i kulture kroz elektronske korpuse: primer timočkih govora. Digital Humanities and Slavic Cultural Heritage, 6-7 May 2019, Belgrade, Serbia.
  •  Kraš, T., M. Miličević Petrović and P. Medved (2019) Reflexive anaphora resolution in Italian during native and non-native online processing. 7th Novi Sad Workshop on Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic and Clinical Linguistic Research, 20 April 2019, Novi Sad, Serbia.
  •  Miličević Petrović, M. and T. Vuković (2019) Challenges of creating dialect corpora: The case of Torlak. XLVIII International Philological Conference, 18-27 March 2019, San Petersburg, Russia.
  •  Lazić, K. and M. Miličević Petrović (2018) Učestali leksički spojevi u tekstovima biotehničke struke na engleskom i srpskom jeziku. Languages and Cultures in Space and Time 8, 17 November 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia.
  •  Miličević Petrović, M. and N. Ljubešić (2018) Nestandardni jezik u nastavi: novi resursi za srpski i hrvatski kao strani. Srpski kao strani jezik u teoriji i praksi IV, 26-28 October 2018, Belgrade, Serbia.
  •  Lazić, K. and M. Miličević Petrović (2018) L1 impact on L2 lexical bundle production: The case of L2 English-L1 Serbian writing. Applied Linguistics Today 6, 12-13 October 2018, Belgrade, Serbia.
  •  Ljubešić, N., T. Samardžić, T. Erjavec, D. Fišer, M. Miličević Petrović and S. Krek (2018) “Kad se mnogo malih složi”: Collaborative development of gold resources for Slovene, Croatian and Serbian. SlaviCorp 2018, 24-26 September 2018, Prague, Czech Republic.
  •  Kraš, T. and M. Miličević Petrović (2018) Overt subject pronouns in Italian: Comparing Italian monolinguals and Croatian-Italian bilinguals. Workshop Overt subject pronouns in null-subject languages: comparing natives and near-natives, 13 September 2018, Perugia.
  •  Kraš, T. and M. Miličević Petrović (2018) Interpretation of Italian subject pronouns in Croatian-Italian simultaneous bilinguals. 26th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology – ESPP 2018, 10-13 September 2018, Rijeka, Croatia.
  •  Lazić, K. and M. Miličević Petrović (2018) Creating pedagogically useful lists of biotechnical academic formulas. 13th biennial Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC), 18-21 July 2018, Cambridge, UK.
  •  Miličević Petrović, M., N. Ljubešić and D. Fišer (2018) Dialectal features of Serbian and Croatian on Twitter. CLARC 2018: Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity, 8-10 June 2018, Rijeka, Croatia.
  •  Miličević Petrović, M., T. Kraš and V. Lisica (2018) Is there L1 attrition outside the L2 environment? Anaphora resolution by L2 English-L1 Italian, Serbian and Croatian translators. 2nd International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children, 24-25 May 2018, Braunschweig, Germany.
  •  Miličević, M., N. Ljubešić and D. Fišer (2017) (Ne)standardni jezik Tvitera. Languages and Cultures in Time and Space 7 (thematic session “Serbian at the Turn of the Century: Novelties in Language System and Use”), 18-19 November 2017, Novi Sad, Serbia.
  •  Ferraresi, A., S. Bernardini and M. Miličević (2017). Words that go together: An exploration of the idiom principle in institutional spoken English. Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, 24-28 July 2017, Birmingham, UK.
  •  Miličević, M., T. Kraš and V. Lisica (2017) Can translation lead to L1 attrition? Anaphora resolution by English>Croatian translators? Bilingualism vs. monolingualism: a new perspective on limitations to L2 acquisition, 19-20 June 2017, Toulouse, France.
  •  Miličević, M., T. Kraš and V. Lisica (2017) Interpreting overt subjects in a null-subject language: Translators as a special bilingual group. 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11), 11-15 June 2017, Limerick, Ireland.
  •  Miličević, M., N. Ljubešić and T. Samardžić (2017) Establishing borders between states vs. languages: Twitter data to the rescue. Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction, 24-27 April 2017, Monte Verità, Switzerland.
  •  Miličević, M., T. Kraš and V. Lisica (2017) L2>L1 translation and L1 attrition: Three studies of anaphora resolution. 5th Novi Sad workshop on Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic and Clinical Linguistic Research. 22 April 2017, Novi Sad, Serbia.

Other research activities

  • Member of the Italian Linguistic Society (Società di Linguistica Italiana, SLI); member of the Italian Society for Language Teaching and Educational Linguistics (Società Italiana di Didattica delle lingue e Linguistica Educativa, DILLE)
  • Scientific and/or organising committee member for the conferences: UCCTS 2020 - Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies 6 (Bertinoro 7-9 September 2020 - postponed); Slavic Studies Today: Slavic Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the European Context (Graz 2-4 June 2020 - postponed); 4th/5th/6th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (Ljubljana 27-28 September 2016, Bolzano 3-4 October 2017, Antwerp 17-18 September 2018); Language Technologies & Digital Humanities 2016/2018 (Ljubljana, 29 September - 1 October 2016 and 20-21 September 2018); Science and the Real World (University of East Sarajevo, 19 May 2018); Applied Linguistics Today 4 (Faculty of Philology, Belgrade, October 2012); StuLiKon 2011 (Faculty of Philology, Belgradeo, 6-8 May 2011)
  • Reviewer for Target, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, CALICO Journal, Languages in Contrast, Philologia, Komunikacija i kultura online, Anali Filološkog fakulteta

Institutional roles

  • QA Committee member for the MA course in Specialized Translation
  • Member of the Teachers' Board and web site delegate for the PhD in Translation, Interpreting and Interculturality
  • Department of Interpreting and Translation delegate for career orientation

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