Matteo De Beni

Introduction

Matteo De Beni is a Full Professor of Spanish Language, Translation and Linguistics. His research interests mainly focus on a) the history of the Spanish language (15^th, 18^th, and 19^th centuries); b) lexicology and lexicography of the Spanish language, with a special focus on technical-scientific fields; c) corpora and the application of information technology to the diachronic analysis of the Spanish lexicon.

He has to his credit the participation in several research projects, including the Project of Excellence “Digital Humanities applied to foreign languages and literatures” (2018-2022), the Project of Excellence “Inclusive Humanities. Prospects for development in the research and teaching of foreign languages and literatures” (2023-2027), the PRIN “A new digital space for the lexicographical heritage: the «Tesoro digitale della lessicografia bilingue spagnolo-italiano»” (2023-2025), within which he is coordinator of the UniVr unit, and the research project, coordinated between the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, “Modelo de una edición hipertextual del DRAE 1884. Bases teóricas para la transferencia digital de un diccionario” (2023-2026), funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación del Gobierno de España.

In 2017, he was elected “Académico Correspondiente” by the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE).