36.3020, FYI: Linguistics Seminars on Abstraction – October 16 & 17, 2025 (Bologna & online)

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Subject: 36.3020, FYI: Linguistics Seminars on Abstraction – October 16 & 17, 2025 (Bologna & online)

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Date: 07-Oct-2025
From: Marianna Bolognesi [m.bolognesi at unibo.it]
Subject: Linguistics Seminars on Abstraction – October 16 & 17, 2025 (Bologna & online)


I am pleased to invite you to two linguistics seminars scheduled for
October, dedicated to the theme of abstraction and included in the
series of periodic meetings organized by the Abstraction research
group (https://site.unibo.it/abstraction/en):
Time: October 16, 2025, 3:00–4:00 PM (CEST)
Location: Bologna (Room 2, Santa Cristina, Piazzetta Morandi, Bologna)
or online via Microsoft Teams: https://shorturl.at/0fw5a
Speaker: Prof. Filippo Domaneschi, Director of the Laboratory of
Language and Cognition, University of Genoa
Title: Concretely offensive: the processing of reclaimed slurs
(seminar held in English)
Time: October 17, 2025, 10:00–11:00 AM (CEST)
Location: Bologna (Room 1, Santa Cristina, Piazzetta Morandi, Bologna)
or online via Microsoft Teams: https://shorturl.at/RjrOU
Speaker: Dr. Veronica Repetti, Member of the Laboratory of Language
and Cognition, University of Genoa, and "Unfluencer," science
communicator known as "Linguisticattiva"
Title: Concrete or abstract possession? Animacy, alienability, and
syntactic structure in children and adults (seminar held in English)

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Italian (ita)




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