24.818, Confs: Italian, Syntax/Netherlands

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Subject: 24.818, Confs: Italian, Syntax/Netherlands

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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:23:10
From: Roberta D'Alessandro [r.dalessandro at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Italian Dialect Festival

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Italian Dialect Festival 
Short Title: IDF 

Date: 25-Feb-2013 - 28-Feb-2013 
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact: Roberta D'Alessandro 
Contact Email: dialetti at hum.leidenuniv.nl 
Meeting URL: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/highlights/this-month-at-lucl.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Meeting Description: 

The Italian Department of Leiden University and LUCL are happy to announce the Italian Dialect Festival, to take place on February 25-28 at Leiden University.
 
Attendance is free, but please do register. 

Block seminar of the diachrony of Italo-Romance dialects by Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge)

- From Latin to Romance: The rise and fall of alignments(25 February, 3pm, Van Eyckhof 1/003C)

-Greek and Romance in southern Italy. Interpreting language convergence and divergence in terms of parameter hierarchies(26 February, 10am, Vrieshof 4/008A)

-Configurationality and Word Order in Latin and Romance(26 February, 3pm, Lipsius 235/B)

- Defence Sara Lusini. Yes/no question-marking in Italian dialects - A typological, theoretical and experimental approach (27 February, 4:15 pm, Academiegebouw)

- Symposium ‘Italian dialects and syntactic theory’ (28 February, Van Wijkplaats 2/006)

9:00-9:15 Opening

9:15 -9:45 Cecilia Poletto (Uni Frankfurt), DP internal scrambling in Old Italian

9:45-10:15 Laura Migliori (LUCL), Between Latin and Romance: Some observations on the perfect

10:15-10:45 Irene Franco (LUCL), The active/stative alignment behind Stylistic Fronting

10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break

11:00-11:30 Sara Lusini (LUCL), Yes/No questions in Sienese

11:30-12:00 Roberta D’Alessandro (LUCL), Parameterized v: A typology of Italian dialects

12:00-12:30 Giuseppe Torcolacci (LUCL), Strategies of marking the unmarked

12:30 –13:00 Silvio Cruschina (Uni Manchester), Copula alternation in existential constructions








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