21.2185, Confs: Italian, Morphology, Historical Ling/UK

Tue May 11 15:31:54 UTC 2010

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Subject: 21.2185, Confs: Italian, Morphology, Historical Ling/UK

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Date: 11-May-2010
From: Chiara Ciarlo < c.ciarlo at reading.ac.uk >
Subject: Italian Linguistics in the UK

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Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:30:54
From: Chiara Ciarlo [c.ciarlo at reading.ac.uk]
Subject: Italian Linguistics in the UK

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Italian Linguistics in the UK 

Date: 11-Jun-2010 - 11-Jun-2010 
Location: Reading, United Kingdom 
Contact: Chiara Ciarlo 
Contact Email: c.ciarlo at reading.ac.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology 

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Meeting Description: 

Italian Linguistics in the UK: Traditions, Challenges, Perspectives.

Henley Business School (room 108)
Whiteknights Campus - University of Reading

Reading 11th June 2010. 

Programme

9:00-9:30    
Registration

9:30-10:00   
Introductory talk: Mair Parry (Bristol): Italian Linguistics: Past and Present

10:00-11:15 
First session:

Martin Maiden (Oxford): Italian Compound Nouns and the Autonomy of Morphology

Valeria Bandecchi (UC Dublin): Lexicalization of Manner in Italian Motion Verbs:
Italian in a Cross-linguistic Perspective

Jennie Parkinson (St. Andrews): Italo-Romance Conditional

11:15-11:30 
Coffee break

11:30-12:45 
Second session
Francesco Romano (Essex - Perugia): The Role of Phonological Salience and
Morphological Richness in the Development of Morphosyntactic Knowledge:
Comparative Evidence from L2 Italian and L2 English

Chiara La Sala (Leeds): Minority Language Planning in Italy: the Standardization
of Sardinian

12:45-13:45 
Lunch

13:45-15:00 
Third session:

Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge): Dual Complementiser Systems in the Modern Dialects of
the Upper South

Diego Pescarini (Bristol): The Alternation el/lo ('he') in Veronese: a
Diachronic Survey

Jacqueline Visconti (Birmingham - Genova): On Subjectification: the Evolution of
Italian addirittura, perfino/persino, qualora

15:00-15:15 
Coffee break

15:15-16:30 
Fourth session:

Annick Paternoster (Leeds, Lugano): Formal Politeness vs Emotional Discourse in
Pinocchio (1883)

Roberta Piazza (Sussex): The Pragmatics of Horror Films

Gabrina Pounds (East Anglia): The Representation of Cultural Values in the
Discourse of English and Italian Online Property Advertising

16:30-17:30 
Round table: Traditions, Challenges and Perspectives
-Federico Faloppa (Reading), Brian Richardson (Leeds), Martin Maiden (Oxford),
Mair Parry (Bristol), Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge)

Registration:

Those who would like to attend the conference should register by Monday 31st May
by sending an email to Chiara Ciarlo at c.ciarlo at reading.ac.uk. 

Italian Linguistics in UK is supported by:

School of Modern Languages - University of Reading
''The Italianist''
LAGB - Linguistics Association of Great Britain

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