Alberto Frasson will visit the University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) on November 26th and 27th. He will give two lectures on Venetan in contact: “Il Talian: aspetti sociolinguistici e morfosintattici del veneto in Brasile” and “Cambiamenti nell’uso del veneto: il ruolo del contatto con l’italiano”.

Andrés Saab (CONICET, Buenos Aires) will give the next set of Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lectures. His crash course will be entitled Case conflicts and A-movement: DOM, doubling and clitics in Rioplatense Spanish.    The course will take place on Monday 17, Tuesday 18, and Wednesday 19 at 11:00-13:00 in  Janskerkhof 13 0.06 (Stijlkamer) Attendance is free, but we would like to…

Today, Thursday 15 November, Jan Casalicchio will give a talk at the University of Konstanz with the title Acquiring a minority language in a trilingual society: the influence of German and Italian on a Rhaeto-Romance variety.

The MicroContact team and the Indo-Aryan Microvariation team of the Indian Institute of Technology Dehli (IITD) will present their works on linguistic microvariation. The Symposium will take place on Monday, October 22nd, from 12:00 to 14:45 (CET). You can follow the event on Skype Meeting Schedule SESSION TIME TOPIC MODERATOR/ SPEAKER Introduction 12:00- 12:10   Welcome Remarks…

Theresa Biberauer, from the University of Cambridge and the Stellenbosch University, will inaugurate the second season of the Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lectures with a crash course on Three factors, variation, contact on October 16-18, 2018. Dates, times and locations: Tuesday, October 16, 11:00-13:00; Drift 23, Vergaderkamer 0.12 Wednesday, October 17, 11:00-13:00; Janskerkhof 13, Stijlkamer 0.06 Thursday, October 18, 11:00-13:00; Drift 23,…

Roberta D’Alessandro will attend the conference Science Advice in a Changing World, which will be held in Tokyo on 4-8 November 2018. The conference is organized by INGSA (International Network for Government Science Advice), of which Roberta is a member.  

On October 4, Jan Casalicchio will give a ComSyn lecture at Leiden University on The subject/object asymmetry and the origin of Romance clitics. For more information, check https://romancelab.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2018/09/27/thursday-4-october-jan-casalicchio/.

Two visiting students from the Autònoma University in Barcelona have just joined Microcontact for the fall semester. Welcome Marta Khouja and MPilar Colomina!

The MicroContact team was present at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, which took place in Sheffield on September 11-14 2018. The following talks were delievered by our team members: D’Alessandro, Roberta & Luana Sorgini. A-telic perfectives. The feel-like periphrasis in Eastern Abruzzese. Casalicchio, Jan & Alberto Frasson. The effects of…

The MicroContact team was very well represented at the Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting/CIDSM 13, which took place in Messina on July 2-4 2018. The following talks were delivered by our team members: Casalicchio, Jan & Alberto Frasson. Changes in the use of subject clitics in Venetan: preliminary results of a quantitative study. CIDSM 13, University of Messina, 2-4…