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
Lectures by Alberto Frasson in Banja Luka
Alberto Frasson will visit the University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) on November 26th and 27th. He will give two lectures on Venetan in ...
Andrés Saab visiting Microcontact
Andrés Saab (CONICET, Buenos Aires) will give the next set of Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lectures. His crash course will be entitled Case conflicts ...
Talk by Jan Casalicchio in Konstanz
Today, Thursday 15 November, Jan Casalicchio will give a talk at the University of Konstanz with the title Acquiring a minority language in a trilingual ...
Symposium on Linguistic Microvariation (IITD-Utrecht University)
The MicroContact team and the Indo-Aryan Microvariation team of the Indian Institute of Technology Dehli (IITD) will present their works on linguistic ...
UTL Lectures by Theresa Biberauer
Theresa Biberauer, from the University of Cambridge and the Stellenbosch University, will inaugurate the second season of the Utrecht Theoretical ...
Roberta at Science Advice in a Changing World – Tokyo
Roberta D’Alessandro will attend the conference Science Advice in a Changing World, which will be held in Tokyo on 4-8 November 2018. The conference ...
Talk by Jan Casalicchio at ComSyn (Leiden University)
On October 4, Jan Casalicchio will give a ComSyn lecture at Leiden University on The subject/object asymmetry and the origin of Romance clitics. For more ...
Two visiting PhD students have joined Microcontact!
Two visiting students from the Autònoma University in Barcelona have just joined Microcontact for the fall semester. Welcome Marta Khouja and MPilar Colomina!
MicroContact at LAGB Annual Meeting 2018
The MicroContact team was present at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, which took place in Sheffield on September 11-14 ...
MicroContact at CIDSM 13
The MicroContact team was very well represented at the Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting/CIDSM 13, which took place in Messina on July 2-4 2018. The ...