On June 28-29, Alberto Frasson and Luana Sorgini will take part in the 15th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (WoSSP) in Barcelona. Alberto will give a talk entitled Talian subject clitics: a case of syntactic change in contact; Luana will give a talk entitled Differential Object Marking, Person-driven auxiliaries and Person-Case Constraint.

This article appeared yesterday on the front page of La Repubblica. It is about language policy in research in Italy, and it is co-authored by Roberta and senator Elena Cattaneo.    

Roberta D’Alessandro will participate in the Lorentz Center Workshop Citizen Science Lab: Sampling Language and Culture, which she co-organized. She will give a talk with the title Crowdsourcing data: what’s good and what’s bad about it.

The volume Advances in Italian Dialectology. Sketches of Italo-Romance grammars, edited by Roberta D’Alessandro and Diego Pescarini, has just appeared with Brill. The description and TOC can be found here.  

Il portale Treccani Lingua Italiana ha dedicato uno speciale al progetto, con articoli riguardanti diversi aspetti della nostra ricerca, intitolato   Il progetto Microcontact: l’eredità linguistica dei dialetti italiani. Questi gli articoli:   Il progetto Microcontact: l’eredità linguistica dei dialetti italiani, di Roberta D’Alessandro I fattori interni del cambiamento. L’evoluzione dei dialetti nel tempo, di Francesco…

On April 11, Jan, Francesco, and Roberta will present a poster at GLOW41 in Budapest, with the title On phasal domains and the difference between subject and object clitics.

On February 15-16, Roberta will be participating in the brainstorming session 48 hours for democracy, organized by the European Movement International. 48 Hours for Democracy is a two-day brainstorm event which will gather a diverse mix of inspiring and creative Europeans to develop new and innovative proposals as to how we can re-energise democratic dialogue.This event will…

The interactive atlas for data crowdsourcing is finally online! Help us collect data from Italo-Romance varieties in the Americas and in Italy! The atlas is here.

Alessandro De Angelis (University of Messina) will be visiting Utrecht University tomorrow (Friday 1 December). He will give a short talk on DOM and definite articles in Romance, with the title Articolo definito e accusativo preposizionale – una distribuzione complementare nelle lingue romanze?  The talk will take place at 11 in Trans 10, 0.51. It will be in…

On December 19, Jan Casalicchio will give a talk at the University of Girona on Gerundios e infinitivos en español e italiano: un análisis contrastivo (“Gerunds and infinitives in Spanish and Italian. A contrastive analysis”.