Christine Konecnyis an associate professor of Italian Linguistics at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Innsbruck, where she completed her habilitation in 2015. Her Research Areas include phraseology and collocation studies, construction grammar, lexicography, contrastive linguistics, variety linguistics, plain language research and foreign language teaching. From 2016 to 2023, she was a board member and treasurer of the EUROPHRAS Society; she has been a member of the advisory board since 2023. Together with Carmen Mellado Blanco and Fabio Mollica, she has also been one of the chief editors since 2026 of the journal *Yearbook of Phraseology. International Studies on Patterns and Formulaic Language*, founded and funded by EUROPHRAS and published by De Gruyter Brill.
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Laura Giacomini is a university professor of Translation Studies at the University of Innsbruck. In 2019, she completed her habilitation at the Institute for Information Science and Language Technology at the University of Hildesheim. Her Research Areas include, amongst other things, (computational) lexicography, terminology, phraseology and language technologies. She is the principal investigator (PI) of PhraseBase, an ongoing project to develop a phraseological and cognitively oriented lexical information system for various languages, and organiser of the project-related PhrasaLex workshop series. Amongst other editorial activities, she is co-editor of the ‘Dictionaries of Linguistics and Communication Studies’ (WSK) series, published by De Gruyter Brill.
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Erica Autelli is a Senior Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Romance Studies and the Department of Translation Studies at the University of Innsbruck. Her Research Areas include dialectology, phraseology and terminology, lexicography, contrastive linguistics, translatology, and foreign language and translation didactics. Between 2018 and 2025, she was the director and principal investigator (PI) of the two FWF-funded phraseological research projects, GEPHRAS and GEPHRAS2, which resulted in the creation of the first Genoese-Italian phraseological (online) dictionary. Furthermore, in 2025, together with Riccardo Imperiale and Elmar Schafroth, she edited the first handbook of Italian phraseology, entitled *Manuale di fraseologia italiana*(Edizioni dell’Orso).
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Riccardo Imperiale is a university assistant in Italian Linguistics at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses primarily on phraseology, morphology (particularly composition), discourse markers and modal particles, pragmatics and Italian variety linguistics. Between 2018 and 2024, he was a research fellow at the Chair of Italian and French Linguistics at the University of Düsseldorf and served at times as a member and coordinator of the DFG research project ‘Usage-Based Phraseology of Italian’ (GEPHRI). In Innsbruck, he contributed to the FWF project GEPHRAS2 from 2023 onwards. In 2025, he published the *Manuale di fraseologia italiana*(Edizioni dell’Orso) together with Erica Autelli and Elmar Schafroth.
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Carmen Konzett-Firthis an associate professor of French Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching at the Department of Romance Studies and the Department of Subject-Specific Education at the University of Innsbruck, where she completed her habilitation in 2024. Her Research Areas focus on conversational analysis and multimodal interaction research, with an emphasis on classroom communication and foreign language acquisition in schools from a usage-based perspective. Her research interests also include identity constructions in academic discourse,teacher cognition, multilingualism didactics, task-based language teachingand digitalisation in language teaching. She has been a board member for over ten years and, since 2022, has served as deputy managing director of the Association for Applied Linguistics in Austria (verbal).
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