Francesco Zamblera

Curriculum vitae

Education and Language certificates

• 2005: PhD in Linguistics at Università degli studi di Pisa.
  Dissertation: Multilinguismo e pluriglossia nella Lituania sud-orientale.
• 2004: Yiddish language certificate (advanced level) at Vilnius Yiddish institute summer course.
• 2002: Vilnius university advanced certificate of Lithuanian studies.
• 2000: second National qualification for elementary school teachers.
• 1998: MA in Linguistics at Università degli studi di Pisa.
  Dissertation: Il sistema tempo-aspettuale del dialetto arabo Ħassānīya.
• 1995: first National qualification for elementary school teachers.
• 1994: Second A-Level (special secondary school for elementary school teachers)
• 1989: First A-Level

Languages

• Mother tongue: Italian.
• Good knowledge: Lithuanian, English, Yiddish, Spanish.
• Fair knowledge: Russian, Spoken North African Arabic, Standard Arabic.
• Basic knowledge: Biblical Hebrew, German, French, Quechua, Polish, Belarusan.

Programming languages

• Good knowledge: PASCAL, PROLOG, HTML.
• Basic knowledge: LISP, PostScript, C, JavaScript.
• OSes: LINUX, DOS, WINDOWS.

Employment

• 2005-: Teacher of English at P. Thouar elementary school, Livorno, Italy.
• 2004: Lecturer (Yiddish for beginners) at Vilnius Yiddish Institute.
• 2001-2004: PhD in Linguistics at University of Pisa.
• 1999-2000: Phonetic transcriptions and spectrograph analyses at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.

Published works

Software

• 2006c: DALIA, a generator, parser and translator for minimalist grammars. Copyright © 2006 Francesco Zamblera under the GNU GPL.
• 2006b: FFE, a bitmap font editor for FREEMACS MULE. Includes MAKEKEYB, a small utility for editing keyboard mapping files. Copyright © 2006 under the GNU GPL. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/emacs/mule/
• 2006a: MULE, a multilingual environment for the FreeDOS Freemacs editor. Copyright © 2006 Francesco Zamblera under the GNU GPL.
  http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/emacs/mule/
• 2005: FLISP, a LISP interpreter for FreeDOS. Copyright © 2005 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/lisp/

Monographs

• [Forthcoming] Jidiš kalbos vadovėlis. Mokymo priemonė. Vilnius, The Vilnius Yidish Institute.
  [A handbook of the Yiddish language. In Lithuanian]

Dissertations

• 2005: Multilinguismo e pluriglossia nella Lituania Sud-Orientale. Tesi di dottorato, Università degli studi di Pisa.
  [Multilingualism and Polyglossy in South-Eastern Lithuania. PhD Dissertation, Pisa University]
• 1998: Il sistema tempo-aspettuale del dialetto Ħassānīya. Tesi di laurea.
  [The Tense and Aspect system of the Ħassānīya dialect. MA thesis, Pisa University]

Reviews

• 2006: Review of Kardelis [2003]: Rytų aukštaičių šnektų slavizmų fonologijos bruožai. Baltistica>
  [Phonological sketch of the Slavicisms of the Eastern High Lithuanian dialects]
• 2004: Review of Miškinienė [2001]: Seniausi Lietuvos totorių rankraščiai. Grafika. Transliteracija. Tekstų strukūtra ir turinys. Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla.
  [The oldest Manustripts of Lithuanian Tatars. Graphic system. Transliteration. Text Structure and Content]. Res Balticae