On the 10th of February Roberta D’Alessandro will give a talk during the Heritage Language Day organized by the Università dell’Insubria. The title is Microcontact: exploring change in contact from the Italo-Romance heritage perspective

On the 18th of January, Roberta D’Alessandro will present the Microcontact project at the  Federico II University in Naples

The Microcontact team will be present at IGG 46, which will take place in Siena (February 27-29). We will talk about Structural vs. typological similarity in microcontact: a view from heritage Italo-Romance (the whole Microcontact team!) and Person sub-features and the evolution of Romance ternary demonstrative systems (Silvia). The webpage of the conference is: http://www.ciscl.unisi.it/igg46/index.html

The MicroContact team and the Indo-Aryan Microvariation team of the Indian Institute of Technology Dehli (IITD) will present their works on linguistic microvariation. The Symposium will take place on Monday, October 22nd, from 12:00 to 14:45 (CET). You can follow the event on Skype Meeting Schedule SESSION TIME TOPIC MODERATOR/ SPEAKER Introduction 12:00- 12:10   Welcome Remarks…

Theresa Biberauer, from the University of Cambridge and the Stellenbosch University, will inaugurate the second season of the Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics Lectures with a crash course on Three factors, variation, contact on October 16-18, 2018. Dates, times and locations: Tuesday, October 16, 11:00-13:00; Drift 23, Vergaderkamer 0.12 Wednesday, October 17, 11:00-13:00; Janskerkhof 13, Stijlkamer 0.06 Thursday, October 18, 11:00-13:00; Drift 23,…