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
Silvia Terenghi at CamCos
Silvia is going to give a talk on Structural differences in the syntax of person indexicals (abstract) at the Cambridge Comparative Syntax (CamCoS) 9 on ...
Silvia Terenghi at NELS
Silvia will give a talk at NELS 51, which will take place at UQAM (online) on November 6-8
Roberta D’Alessandro at Parametric Networks Barcelona
On the 13th of November Roberta will give a talk at the workshop on Parametric Networks of Language Variation Theories and Methodologies, which will take ...
Roberta D’Alessandro at ABraLin ao Vivo
On the 4th of November, Roberta will give a talk for the ABraLin series at 18:00 CET. Title: t.b.a. You can follow the talk on the ABraLin YouTube channel
Talk by Roberta D’Alessandro at URPP Zürich
Roberta will give a talk entitled Microcontact and linking: what different perspective on change tell us about language at the URPP Language and Space ...
HLS goes virtual!
The Heritage Language Syntax workshop will take place ONLINE on October 12-16 (DATE CHANGE!). HLS1 will take place online. The talks will be hosted on ...
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 ...