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Alberto Frasson is a PhD!

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

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Roberta at the ELF2, Puebla, Mexico

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)

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Talk by Roberta at Lausanne

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  

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Heritage Language Syntax 2

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…

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Silvia Terenghi at GLOW 44

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

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Silvia Terenghi at DiGS 22

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.

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Silvia Terenghi at Grote Taaldag

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?

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