Background:

I was born and raised in Hangzhou, China. Before joining the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, I completed both my BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures and my Master’s in Modern Philology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. During my BA, I also spent a semester as an Erasmus student at Humboldt University in Berlin.
I am versed in several modern languages (English, Italian, French, Spanish, and German), and also literate in Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian and Japanese. In addition to my work as a researcher, I have been working as a language teacher (teaching Chinese to foreign learners and foreign languages to Chinese students), as well as a translator and interpreter (English–Italian–Chinese) for international and intercultural events.

Thesis Project:

Title: Numerals in compounding: from classical to Romance languages 

Research Interest:

Morphology, Romance Linguistics, Historical Linguistics

Publication:

Lyu, Zhihao (Kanyo). 2025. Numerals in Ancient Greek compounding. Journal of Greek Linguistics 25(2). 207–239.

Lyu, Zhihao (Kanyo). In press. The use of classical numeral elements in Italian neoclassical compounding. Italian Journal of Linguistics.