Ivana Lalli Paćelat

Ivana Lalli Paćelat is an assistant professor in the Department of Italian Studies at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. She holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Zagreb (2014). Her research interests include corpus linguistics, languages for specific purposes (LSP), translation technology, multilingualism, and language teaching. She has led two bilateral Croatian-Slovenian research projects: Translation in Bilingual Institutions in Croatian and Slovenian Istria – Status and Perspectives (2022–2023) and Official Bilingualism in Slovenian and Croatian Istria: An Example of Translating Administrative Texts (2018–2019). She also led the local research project Corpus in Language Research – Intralingual, Interlingual and Translation Perspective (FFPU-10-2021-3) and the project Corpora in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Application of Corpora in Linguistic Research, Language Teaching, and Translation (FFPU-1-2026-3). She has participated in several research projects, including Endangered Languages in Contact: A Multilingual Spoken Corpus for Language Documentation and Research at the University of Georgia, as well as Language Technologies Applied to LSP (LATECH) and Languages in Contact: Bilingualism and Multilingualism in Istria and Rijeka (LICon) at the University of Rijeka. She teaches courses in translation and technology, Italian linguistics, and Italian for Specific Purposes. She is a co-author of a Bachelor’s programme in Linguistic and Intercultural Mediation and a reviewer of textbooks and digital educational content for Italian language learning. She is a member of Rete REI – Osservatorio dell’italiano istituzionale fuori d’Italia (OIFI).

CV updated on 2026-09-21.