Antonio Bertacca teaches English at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Pisa. His main interest is in historical linguistcs in general and in the history of the English language, on which he has published extensively in Italian and international journals. He wrote a book on The Great Vowel Shift (Rome, 1995), and is about to publish a book on the loss of nominal inflections in English with Edizioni PLUS (Pisa).
