Microcontact. Language variation and change from the Italian heritage perspective.

Project Information

MicroContact

Grant agreement ID: 681959

DOI

10.3030/681959

Project closed

EC signature date 29 September 2016

Start date 1 January 2017

End date 30 June 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 996 250,00

EU contribution

€ 1 996 250,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Netherlands

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Publications

Book chapters (13)

Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on Differential Object Marking in old Sardinian

Author(s): Michela Cennamo, Luigi Andriani, Francesco Maria Ciconte
Published in: Differential Object Marking in Romance: Towards Microvariation, 2022
Publisher: John Benjamins

Fission in Romance demonstrative-reinforcer constructions.

Author(s): Silvia Terenghi
Published in: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2021
Publisher: John Benjamins

Dialetti in diaspora: loss and retention in Italian New York

Author(s): Luigi Andriani, Ross Perlin, Daniel Kaufman
Published in: Dialetti in diaspora: loss and retention in Italian New York, 2022, ISBN 9781501518874
Publisher: De Gruyter

Agreement

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro
Published in: The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics, 2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Differential Object Marking in Barese: Old and new perspectives

Author(s): Luigi Andriani
Published in: Differential Object Marking in Romance: Towards Microvariation, 2022
Publisher: John Benjiamins

Come si mescolano le lingue? Gli effetti del contatto linguistico.

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro
Published in: Tutto ciò che hai sempre voluto sapere sul linguaggio e sulle lingue, 2017
Publisher: Caissa Editore

'V2 and (micro)-variation in two Rhaeto-Romance varieties of Northern Italy

Author(s): Jan Casalicchio, Federica Cognola
Published in: Advances in Italian Dialectology. Sketches of Italo-Romance grammars, 2018, Page(s) 72-105, ISBN 9789-004354395
Publisher: Brill

'On the null-subject phenomenon: an example of successful linguistic research

Author(s): Federica Cognola, Jan Casalicchio
Published in: Understanding Null Subjects. A Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective, 2018, Page(s) 1-30, ISBN 9780-198815853
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Parametrising subject-finite verb inversion across V2 languages. On the role of Relativised Minimality at the vP edge

Author(s): Jan Casalicchio, Federica Cognola
Published in: Rethinking Verb Second, 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Sui possessivi (enclitici) nelle varietà italo-romanze meridionali non estreme

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro, Laura Migliori
Published in: Di tutti i colori. Studi linguistici per Maria Grossmann, 2017
Publisher: Utrecht University

Documenting Italo-Romance heritage languages in the Americas

Author(s): Luigi Andriani, Jan Casalicchio, Francesco Maria Ciconte, Roberta D'Alessandro, Alberto Frasson, Brechje van Osch, Luana Sorgini, Silvia Terenghi
Published in: Contemporary research in minority and disapora languages of Europe, 2021
Publisher: Language Science Press

Crossing domains: topic marking and doubling in Romance.

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro
Published in: Building on Babel's Rubble, 2022, Page(s) 395-409, ISBN 9782379242359
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes

Agreement across the board:Topic agreement in Ripano

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro
Published in: Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme, 2020, Page(s) 235-270, ISBN 978-3-96110-214-3
Publisher: Language Science Press
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3541757

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Language Variation and Functional Heads: Magnetic Grammar

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro, Marc van Oostendorp
Published in: Linguistic Analysis, Issue 4, 2020, Page(s) 405-440, ISSN 0098-9053
Publisher: Elsevier USA

Subject Clitics in Microcontact: A Case Study from Heritage Friulian in Argentina and Brazil

Author(s): Alberto Frasson, Roberta D'Alessandro, Brechje van Osch
Published in: Heritage Language Journal, Issue 18, 2021, Page(s) 1-36, ISSN 1550-7076
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15507076-12340001

Not everything is a theory

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro
Published in: Theoretical Linguistics, 2021, ISSN 1613-4060
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton

Syntactic Change in Contact: Romance

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro
Published in: Annual Review of Linguistics, Issue 7/1, 2021, Page(s) 309-328, ISSN 2333-9683
Publisher: Annual Reviews
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030311

Adding the microdimension to the study of language change in contact. Three case studies

Author(s): Luigi Andriani, Roberta D'Alessandro, Alberto Frasson, Brechje van Osch, Luana Sorgini, Silvia Terenghi
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Issue 7, 2022, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5748

Doing Romance Linguistics

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro
Published in: Romance Grammar: Contact and Context. Special Issue of Isogloss, 2022, ISSN 2385-4138
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Simplification or complexification: auxiliary selection and anti-agreement effect in Brazilian Venetan

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro, Alberto Frasson
Published in: Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022, ISSN 2014-9719
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Structural Change in Relative Clauses and the Autonomy of Heritage Grammars

Author(s): Alberto Frasson
Published in: Languages; Volume 7; Issue 2; Pages: 106, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2226-471X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/languages7020106

Clitics are not enough: on agreement and null subjects in Brazilian Venetan

Author(s): Alberto Frasson
Published in: Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics,, Issue 6, 2021, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.1697

On the Diversity of Linguistic Data and the Integration of the Language Sciences

Author(s): Roberta D’Alessandro, Marc van Oostendorp
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 8, 2017, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02002

When you have too many features: Auxiliaries, agreement and clitics in Italian varieties

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Issue 2/1, 2017, Page(s) 50, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.102

Soggetto e oggetto nell’italo-romanzo antico

Author(s): Francesco Maria Ciconte
Published in: Studi e Saggi Linguistici, Issue LVI (1), 2018, Page(s) 97-135, ISSN 0085-6827
Publisher: Edizioni ETS

Mə tε magnatə. Perifrasi modali in abruzzese orientale

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro, Luana Sorgini
Published in: Bollettino del Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani, Issue 2019, 2019, ISSN 0577-277X
Publisher: Bollettino del Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani

Eliciting Big Data From Small, Young, or Non-standard Languages: 10 Experimental Challenges

Author(s): Evelina Leivada, Roberta D’Alessandro, Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 10, 2019, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00313

Demonstrative-reinforcer constructions and the syntactic role of deictic features

Author(s): Silvia Terenghi
Published in: Linguistics in the Netherlands, Issue 36, 2019, Page(s) 192-207, ISSN 0929-7332
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/avt.00032.ter

Differential Object Marking in Apulian: A descriptive overview.

Author(s): Luigi Andriani
Published in: Caplletra, 2022, ISSN 2386-7159
Publisher: Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana

Addressing challenges in formal research on moribund heritage languages: A path forward

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro, David Natvig, Michael Putnam
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.700126

D, T, C drop in heritage Italo-Romance in NYC. Some descriptive generalizations.

Author(s): Luigi Andriani, Roberta D'Alessandro
Published in: Revue Roumaine de Linguistique., 2022, ISSN 0035-3957
Publisher: Editura Academiei Romane

Conference proceedings (3)

Stable and unstable person features: A structural account

Author(s): Silvia Terenghi
Published in: NELS 51: Proceedings of the Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society,, 2021
Publisher: GLSA

Morphologie und Syntax im Projekt ALD-DM

Author(s): Roland Bauer, Jan Casalicchio
Published in: Ladinia 41, Issue VII Colloquium Retoromanistich 2017. Contribuc/Tagungsakten/Atti. Vol. 1. Special issue of Ladinia, 2017, Page(s) 81-108
Publisher: Ladinia

A debate on Universal Morphology

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro, Ángel Gallego, Alexandru Nicolae, María Carme Parafita Couto, Diego Pescarini, Anna Pineda, Michelle Sheehan
Published in: Isogloss, Issue 7, 2021, ISSN 2385-4138
Publisher: UAB
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.193

Other (5)

أساسيات التركيب الميسّر, Syntax Made Easy (Arabic version)

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro
Published in: Syntax Made Easy (Arabic version), 2022, ISBN 9789920924306
Publisher: Centre de Recherches Sémiotique et Etudes Culturelles

Academic Freedom: Challenges, Threats, Emerging Issues

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro
Published in: Akademie im Dialog, Issue 9, 2017
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences

Talen voor Nederland

Author(s): Muysken, P. , D'Alessandro, R.A.G. , Buyse, A.C. , Zurcher, EriK-Jan , Jensma, Goffe , Maassen van den Brink, H. , Leerssen, J. , de Swart, H.E
Published in: KNAW advies, 2018
Publisher: KNAW

Syntax made easy. How to read (and draw) syntactic trees

Author(s): D'Alessandro, Roberta
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Utrecht Universuty

Microcontact - interactive atlas for data crowdsourcing

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro, Julian Gonggrijp
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Utrecht University

Monographic books (2)

Heritage languages and syntactic theory

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro, Michael T. Putnam
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Ocford University Press

Di tutti i colori. Studi linguistici in onore di Maria Grossmann

Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro, Diana Passino, Anna M. Thornton, and Gabriele Iannaccaro (eds)
Published in: 2017, ISBN 978-90-9030133-4
Publisher: Utrecht University

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Missing Person: Accounting for reduction patterns in Romance demonstrative systems

Author(s): Silvia Terenghi
Published in: 2022
Publisher: LOT publications