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Alberto and Luana at WoSSP 15
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.
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Language policy in Italy
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.
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Citizen Science Lab: Sampling Language and Culture
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.
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Advances in Italian Dialectology
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.
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Speciale Treccani Lingua Italiana su Microcontact
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…
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Jan, Francesco and Roberta at GLOW 41
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.
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Roberta in Brussels to brainstorm about communication in the EU
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…
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The Interactive Atlas is now online!
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.
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Talk by Alessandro De Angelis
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…
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Talk by Jan Casalicchio at UdG
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”.
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