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!

On May 23rd Alberto will give a talk at the University of Osnabrück (Germany) with the title Patterns of subject agreement in heritage northern Italo-Romance.

The Microcontact team will be present at the 14th CIDSM (Cambridge Italian Dialects Syntax-Morphology Meeting), which will take place in Prague (27-29 May). We will talk about The syntax of postverbal subjects in a heritage Trentino variety spoken in Bosnia Herzegovina (Alberto and Jan) and about Demonstrative-reinforcer constructions: variation in Italo-Romance (Silvia and Jan). The…

During his fieldwork in Argentina, Jan was interviewed by the web magazine ItBuenosAires.it, part of www.italiani.it. You can read his interview (in Spanish) here: https://buenosaires.italiani.it/es/jan-casalicchio

We have started our fieldwork! Please check our daily updates on the atlas, and you’ll hear Italo-Romance heritage varieties in Argentina, Brazil, and Canada!

Eliciting Big Data From Small, Young, or Non-standard Languages: 10 Experimental Challenges, co-authored by Roberta D’Alessandro with Evelina Leivada and Kleanthes K. Grohmann, has just appeared. The article is in #OA and can be downloaded here. Leivada, Evelina, Kleanthes K. Grohmann & Roberta D’Alessandro. Eliciting big data from small, young, or non-standard languages: 10 experimental challenges. Frontiers in…

CGG 29 will take place on 22-24 May in Ciudad Real. Roberta D’Alessandro will participate as a keynote speakers. More information can be found here.

Roberta D’Alessandro will give a lecture at EMLAR XV, which will take place on April 16-18 in Utrecht. The lecture will be entitled “Personal data protection and ethical protocol for fieldwork and crowdsourcing”.

On February 21-23, the University of Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum, organizes a conference on Diversity and Inclusion. Roberta D’Alessandro will give a talk on the challenges of documenting minority languages.  

The FARMM initiative organizes the first Challenge, a workshop oriented at providing an answer to specific questions to a specific dataset within a relevant phenomenon. The event will be held at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona on 15 February 2019. The empirical domain of this challenge is clitics. INVITED SPEAKERS: Rita Manzini (University of Florence)…