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
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 ...
Alberto and Luana at WoSSP 15
On June 28-29, Alberto Frasson and Luana Sorgini will take part in the 15th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (WoSSP) in Barcelona. Alberto will ...
Language policy in Italy
This article appeared yesterday on the front page of La Repubblica. It is about language policy in research in Italy, and it is co-authored by Roberta and ...
Citizen Science Lab: Sampling Language and Culture
Roberta D’Alessandro will participate in the Lorentz Center Workshop Citizen Science Lab: Sampling Language and Culture, which she co-organized. She ...
Advances in Italian Dialectology
The volume Advances in Italian Dialectology. Sketches of Italo-Romance grammars, edited by Roberta D’Alessandro and Diego Pescarini, has just ...
Speciale Treccani Lingua Italiana su Microcontact
Il portale Treccani Lingua Italiana ha dedicato uno speciale al progetto, con articoli riguardanti diversi aspetti della nostra ricerca, intitolato ...
Jan, Francesco and Roberta at GLOW 41
On April 11, Jan, Francesco, and Roberta will present a poster at GLOW41 in Budapest, with the title On phasal domains and the difference between subject ...
Roberta in Brussels to brainstorm about communication in the EU
On February 15-16, Roberta will be participating in the brainstorming session 48 hours for democracy, organized by the European Movement International. 48 ...
The Interactive Atlas is now online!
The interactive atlas for data crowdsourcing is finally online! Help us collect data from Italo-Romance varieties in the Americas and in Italy! The atlas ...
