Alberto Frasson successfully defended his dissertation titled The Syntax of Subject Pronouns in Heritage Languages: Innovation and Complexification The dissertation is available in Open Access at this link

Roberta will be one of the invited speakers of the 2nd Encuentro de Lingüística Formal en México, which will take place online, on September 8-10, hosted by the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico. You can find more information here: Encuentro de Lingüística Formal (wordpress.com)

On the 7th of September Roberta will give a talk entitled “Raccogliere dati di varietà romanze in via di estinzione: il caso delle lingue ereditarie in America” at the conference Dialettologia ed etimologia. Metodologie e cantieri aperti that will take place at the University of Lausanne. The program can be found here: https://agenda.unil.ch/display/1626428661594  

The 2nd Heritage Language Syntax conference will take place in Utrecht on 15-17 December 2021. Invited Speakers: Suzanne Aalberse (University of Amsterdam) Abbas Benmamoun (Duke University) Oksana Laleko (State University of New York – New Paltz) Brechje van Osch (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) Michael Putnam (Pennsylvania State University) Liliana Sánchez (University of Illinois – Chicago) Deniz…

On April 15th, Silvia Terenghi presented a paper at GLOW 44 with the title A person-rooted spatial analysis of demonstratives.

On April 11th, Silvia Terenghi gave a talk at WCCFL 39 with the title A person-rooted spatial analysis of demonstratives.  

On May 22nd, Silvia Terenghi will give a talk at DiGS 22 with the title Non-primary person features and the evolution of Romance ternary demonstrative systems.

On January 29th, Silvia Terenghi will give a talk at the Grote Taaldag with the title Uniform and non-uniform feature values: A new type of markedness?

Silvia Terenghi will give a talk at ConSOLE29 with the title A person-rooted spatial analysis of demonstratives.

Roberta D’Alessandro will be one of the invited speakers at the conference entitled Romance Grammars, Context and Contact workshop, which will take place on 24-26 March at the University of Birmingham.