I: Gender, Language, Culture; 1. Introduction, Carla Bazzanella (Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy); II: The Indo-European family; 2. Czech, Simona Leonardi (University Federico II, Italy); 3. Dutch, Alessandra Corda (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands); 4. English, Camilla Bettoni (University of Verona, Italy); 5. French, Margareth Wijk (University of Lund, Sweden); 6. German, Eva-Maria Thune & Simona Leonardi (University of Bologna & University Federico II, Italy); 7. Greek, Marianna Katsoyiannou & Dionysis Goutsos, (University of Cyprus, Cyprus & University of Athens, Greece); 8. Italian, Manuela Manera & Carla Bazzanella (Universita degli Studi di Torino and University of Turin, Italy); 9 Polish, Johanna Miecznikowski-Funfschilling (University of Turin, Italy); 10. Portuguese, Aldina Marques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal); 11. Russian, Maria Bonnemark, (University of Lund, Sweden); 12. Spanish, Pura Guil (Madrid, Spain); III: The Semitic family; 14. Arabic, Atiqa Hachimi (University of Florida, USA); 15. Hebrew, Zohar Livnat (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); IV: The Uralic family; 16. Hungarian, Viviana Patti & Marcell Nagy (University of Torino, Italy); V: The Altaic family; 18. Turkish, Marina Castagneto, & Rosita D'Amora (Societa di Linguistica Italiana, and Universita del Salento, Italy); VI: The Austro-Asiatic family; 19. Chinese, Antonella Ceccagno (University of Bologna, Italy).