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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black !important" class="ContentPasted0">We are pleased to announce the<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><b class="ContentPasted0">Spring School on Language Variation</b><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>which
will take place on<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><b class="ContentPasted0">15-17 May 2023<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></b>in<b class="ContentPasted0"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>Bologna</b>, Italy (<a href="https://site.unibo.it/language-variation/en" title="https://site.unibo.it/language-variation/en">https://site.unibo.it/language-variation/en</a>).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black !important" class="ContentPasted0">The School is organized by Caterina Mauri (Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, LILEC) and by
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Silvia Ballarč, Nicola Grandi, and Simone Mattiola (</span>Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, FICLIT) of the University of Bologna with the support of the Experimental Lab of the LILEC Department</span><span class="ContentPasted1" style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black !important" class="ContentPasted0">The School on Language Variation aims to provide an interactive forum for<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><b class="ContentPasted0">Ph.D. students</b><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>and<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><b class="ContentPasted0">MA
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black !important" class="ContentPasted0">More specifically, the school aims at fostering a theoretical and practical reflection on language variation from different perspectives in order to discuss how and why languages
change. The Spring School consists of 6 lectures (3h each) given by world-renowned scholars:</span></p>
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<li><span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black !important" class="ContentPasted0">Language variation and language use</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black !important" class="ContentPasted0"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>-<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><b class="ContentPasted0">Holger
Diessel</b><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>(University of Jena)</span></span></li><li><i style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black !important;" class="ContentPasted0">Language variation and interactional linguistics</span></i><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black !important;"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>-<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><b class="ContentPasted0">Yael
Maschler</b><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>(University of Haifa)</span></li><li><i style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black !important;" class="ContentPasted0">Language variation and emerging changes</span></i><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black !important;"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>-<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><b class="ContentPasted0">Sali
A. Tagliamonte</b><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>(University of Toronto)</span></li><li><i style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black !important;" class="ContentPasted0">Language variation and evolving grammars</span></i><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black !important;"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>-<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><b class="ContentPasted0">Shana
Poplack</b><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>(University of Ottawa)</span></li><li><i style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black !important;" class="ContentPasted0">Language variation and language varieties</span></i><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black !important;"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>-<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><b class="ContentPasted0">Benedikt
Szmrecsanyi</b><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>(KU Leuven)</span></li><li><i style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black !important;" class="ContentPasted0">Language variation and linguistic typology</span></i><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black !important;"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>-<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><b class="ContentPasted0">Natalia
Levshina</b><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>(Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics - Nijmegen)</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black !important" class="ContentPasted0">More information about the program, how to apply, and deadlines can be found on the school website (<a href="https://site.unibo.it/language-variation/en/participation" title="https://site.unibo.it/language-variation/en/participation">https://site.unibo.it/language-variation/en/participation</a>).</span></p>
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