Sara Cardullo (University of Pisa) is writing her MA-thesis on the syntax of the Eolie dialects (Sicily), and she has decided to spend a research period with the Microcontact team @UU. Welcome Sara!

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

Jan Casalicchio and Francesco Ciconte attended the SLE conference in Zurich, which took place on September 10-13. Jan Casalicchio presented a paper entitled The syntax of embedded gerunds in Romance. Francesco Ciconte presented a paper entitled Postverbal subjects in old Italo-Romance. Stay tuned for the drafts!

The conference Generative Syntax. Questions, Crossroads and Challenges, organized by one of our project collaborators, Ángel Gallego, is about to start in Barcelona. Roberta D’Alessandro will give a talk entitled The achievements of Generative Grammar. A time chart and some considerations. For the last sixty years, Generative Grammar (GG) has been the dominant approach in the…

Four new project members have been selected to join our team between July and August. Jan Casalicchio (post-doc), will be working on the diachrony of Italo-Romance varieties in contact with Italian. Jan is now post-doc at the University of Trento, and is an expert of both diachronic syntax and northern Italo-Romance languages. Luana Sorgini, PhD candidate, from…