Microcontact. Language Variation and Change from the Italian heritage perspective is an ERC-funded research project that aims to understand language change from a syntactic microvariational perspective, by observing core syntactic aspects of Romance languages in contact.News
Talk by Silvia Terenghi at WoSSP 16 (Madrid)
Silvia will give a talk about Romance demonstratives in diachrony and the organisation of person features at WoSSP 16 (Madrid, 17-18 June). The webpage of ...
A visiting MA-student has joined Microcontact!
Sara Cardullo (University of Pisa) is writing her MA-thesis on the syntax of the Eolie dialects (Sicily), and she has decided to spend a research period ...
Talk by Alberto Frasson in Osnabrück
On May 23rd Alberto will give a talk at the University of Osnabrück (Germany) with the title Patterns of subject agreement in heritage northern Italo-Romance.
Microcontact at CIDSM14 (Prague)
The Microcontact team will be present at the 14th CIDSM (Cambridge Italian Dialects Syntax-Morphology Meeting), which will take place in Prague (27-29 ...
Jan’s interview for ItBuenosAires.it
During his fieldwork in Argentina, Jan was interviewed by the web magazine ItBuenosAires.it, part of www.italiani.it. You can read his interview (in ...
Microcontact is on fieldwork!
We have started our fieldwork! Please check our daily updates on the atlas, and you’ll hear Italo-Romance heritage varieties in Argentina, Brazil, ...
New publication!
Eliciting Big Data From Small, Young, or Non-standard Languages: 10 Experimental Challenges, co-authored by Roberta D’Alessandro with Evelina Leivada ...
CGG 29, Ciudad Real
CGG 29 will take place on 22-24 May in Ciudad Real. Roberta D’Alessandro will participate as a keynote speakers. More information can be found here.
EMLAR XV
Roberta D’Alessandro will give a lecture at EMLAR XV, which will take place on April 16-18 in Utrecht. The lecture will be entitled “Personal ...
Diversity and Inclusion: Overcoming Fragmentation
On February 21-23, the University of Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum, organizes a conference on Diversity and Inclusion. Roberta D’Alessandro will give ...