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 IGG
The Microcontact team will be present at IGG 46, which will take place in Siena (February 27-29). We will talk about Structural vs. typological similarity ...
Microcontact at GLOW!
The Microcontact team will give a talk at GLOW 43, which will take place in Berlin on March 31st-April 3rd, 2020. We will present a paper entitled The ...
Alberto at Going Romance 2019 (Leiden)
On November 28th, Jan Casalicchio (University of Palermo) and Alberto Frasson (Utrecht University) will present a talk entitled The syntax of spatial ...
Heritage Language Syntax Workshop
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 ...
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, ...