Career
His main research areas are history of Romance languages and lexicography. He is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie and the yearbook Lexicographica. Current projects are the Deonomasticon Italicum (DI), the Lessico etimologico italiano (LEI) (together with Max Pfister) and the Dictionnaire étymologique des langues romanes (DÉRom) (together with Eva Buchi).
