Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel (born 5 April 1953) is an Italian philologist, linguist and scholar of

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Biography

Patrizia de Bernardo was born on 5 April 1953 in

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, Italy, the daughter of Mario de Bernardo and Adriana Marra. She studied classics at the

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, where she earned a PhD in 1977. Between 1977 and 1981, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Linguistics of the

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, then as a lecturer in Italian at the Romance Department until 1986. In 1984, she married the German linguist Reinhard Stempel. The following year, she earned a PhD ''summa cum laude'' in Celtic philology, Indo-European linguistics and Romance philology at the University of Bonn, with a dissertation on "The development of the Indo-European liquid and nasal sonants in Celtic".List of works
/ref> From 1987 to 1989, de Bernardo Stempel was a postdoctoral fellow at the

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, then served as a research assistant at the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Bochum from 1989 to 1991. Between 1991 and 1994, she was a lecturer in Latin and Greek Linguistics at the Department of Classical Philology at the

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, then a research assistant at the Department of Romance Languages at the

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(1995–1999). In 2000, she became an associate professor in Classical Studies at the

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, where she has been working as a Full Professor since 2011.

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Living people Linguists of Celtic languages Linguists of Indo-European languages 1953 births 20th-century Italian linguists 21st-century linguists {{Italy-linguist-stub