Publications

New publication!
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…
Read more
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.
Read more
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…
Read more
Microcontact at SLE Zurich
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!
Read more