Silvia will give a talk at NELS 51, which will take place at UQAM (online) on November 6-8

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 place on November 12-13 at the Autònoma University of Barcelona. Title: t.b.a.

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 

Roberta will give a talk entitled Microcontact and linking: what different perspective on change tell us about language at the URPP Language and Space Colloquium, which will be held at the University of Zürich on September the 24th.

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 the OSF from the 12th to the 16th of October. On the 16th of October at 15:00 CEST there will be a round table with the invited speakers who will discuss issues around heritage language syntax….

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 in microcontact: a view from heritage Italo-Romance (the whole Microcontact team!) and Person sub-features and the evolution of Romance ternary demonstrative systems (Silvia). The webpage of the conference is: http://www.ciscl.unisi.it/igg46/index.html

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 ranking of internal and external factors in heritage language syntactic change  

On November 28th, Jan Casalicchio (University of Palermo) and Alberto Frasson (Utrecht University) will present a talk entitled The syntax of spatial anchoring: logophoricity in a heritage Italo-Romance variety at the Going Romance 2019 in Leiden. The program of the conference is available here.

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 – Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology & UiT The Arctic University of Norway) – Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto (Leiden University) – Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) – Jason Rothman (UiT The Arctic University…

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 the workshop is: https://eventos.ucm.es/27328/section/15791/16th-workshop-on-syntax-semantics-and-phonology.html