On November 28th, Jan Casalicchio (University of Palermo) and Alberto Frasson (Utrecht University) will present a talk entitled The syntax of spatial ...

We are happy to announce the 1st Microcontact Workshop on HERITAGE LANGUAGE SYNTAX to be held at Utrecht University on 12-13 March 2020 Invited speakers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Microcontact team will be present at the 14th CIDSM (Cambridge Italian Dialects Syntax-Morphology Meeting), which will take place in Prague (27-29 ...

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 ...

We have started our fieldwork! Please check our daily updates on the atlas, and you’ll hear Italo-Romance heritage varieties in Argentina, Brazil, ...

Eliciting Big Data From Small, Young, or Non-standard Languages: 10 Experimental Challenges, co-authored by Roberta D’Alessandro with Evelina Leivada ...

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.