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Conferences and Seminars (2000-2012)

 

2012

Verona, February 23-25. 38th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG38), Università di Verona.

- Parameters, patterns and the reality of UG. (with G. Longobardi, A. Ceolin, G. Silvestri, L. Bortolussi, A. Sgarro). Selected by a committee of referees.

Modena, March 12. Darwin Day 2012.

- L’ultima sfida di Darwin. Linguistica e genetica per ricostruire il passato umano. Invited speech.

Modena, March 19. Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Umane, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

- Prospettive sulle scienze linguistiche dal metodo comparativo classico alla biolinguistica.

Milano, March 30. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale.

- L’ultima sfida di Darwin. Il progetto LanGeLin. (with G. Longobardi and G. Romeo)

Modena, April 4 and 13. Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Corsi di Laurea in Scienze della cultura and Antropologia del mondo contemporaneo

- La biolinguistica come scienza storica: il metodo di comparazione parametrica.

Thessaloniki, April 26-27. 33th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Department, Aristotle University.

- The Greek article across time and space. Selected by a committee of referees. Slides.

Leiden, May 23-26. Italian Dialects Meeting, University of Leiden.

- Greek and Romance in Southern Italy: history and contact in nominal structures. (with Melita Stavrou) Selected by a committee of referees.

Cambridge, June 11. SyntaxLab, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

- Greek and Romance dialects in Southern Italy: adjectives within the DP.

Lisbona, July 4-6. 14th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS 14).

- Philogenetic reconstruction and syntactic parameters. Quantitative experiments on Indo-European. (with G. Longobardi, A. Ceolin, A. Boattini, G. Silvestri) Selected by a committee of referees.

Gent, September 20-21. 5th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects & Linguistic Theory.

- The Greek dialects in Southern Italy. Effects of language contact on nominal syntax. (with Melita Stavrou) Selected by a committee of referees.

2011

Modena, Reggio Emilia, February 2-3. Scimmie Parlanti, Linguistiche e altre scienze naturali, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

Member of the organizing committee. Program. Poster.

Roma, February 17-19. International Conference on Linguistics and Classical Languages, Università di RomaTre.

- Typological comparison in the nominal domain. Articles and bare nouns across Ancient Greek. Poster presentation. Selected by a committee of referees. Poster. Slides.

Roma, February 24-25. 37th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Università di Roma, La Sapienza.

Modena, March 16, 25. Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Umane, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

- Parlanti e lingue fra universali e diversità. Doctoral seminars.

Padova, April 7-8. Dottorato in Linguistica. Università di Padova.

- Il metodo di comparazione parametrica. Doctoral seminars.

Modena, April 19. Primitivo, arcaico, originario, sauvage: (al)la ricerca dell'uomo perduto, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

- Uomini, popoli e storie. Il contributo della linguistica.

Bologna, May 31. Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Orientali, Università di Bologna.

- La sintassi come strumento per la ricostruzione filogenetica. Invited speech.

Thessaloniki, May 6-8. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics. Aristotle University, Thessaloniki.

- Demonstratives, word orders and the DP between syntax and semantics. Paper selected by a committee of referees.

Hannover, May 31. LINGUA meeting. Universitaet Hannover.

- Historical reconstruction in linguistics: the Parametric Comparison Method. Invited speech.

Cabridge, June 16-17. 6th Cambridge Italian dialects syntax meeting (CIDSM 6), University of Cambridge (UK).

- DPs in Southern Italy: a comparative perspective. Handout. Slides.

Komotini, September 1-4. 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics.

- Linguistic theory and the Greek article: a parametric perspective. Paper selected by a committee of referees.

Madrid, October 27-28. Rethinking Parameters, Workshop on Formal Grammar and Syntactic Variation. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

- Parameters, patterns and the historical reality of UG (with G. Longobardi, G. Silvestri, L. Bortolussi, A. Sgarro) Paper selected by a committee of referees.

2010

Cambridge, June 15. SyntaxLab, Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

- Demonstratives and the structure of the DP. Crosslinguistic remarks. Slides.

Leeds, September 1-4. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain, LAGB, University of Leeds.

- Demonstratives and word order within the DP. A crosslinguistic inspection. Paper selected by a committee of referees. Slides.

Paris, November 26-27. Colloque international de syntaxe grecque et latine. International conference on Greek and Latin syntax. Ecole normale supérieure.

- Syntactic theory and Ancient Greek. Remarks on the development of the article-system. Paper selected by a committee of referees. Slides.

 

2009

Pescara, February 19-20. VIII congresso Internazionale di Studi dell’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA). Oralità e scrittura. In memoria di Giorgio Raimondo Cardona. (Member of the AItLA Organizing Board).

Amsterdam, March 15-16.  2nd Amsterdam Workshop on Greek Linguistics (AWGL 2).

- Greek demonstratives and linguistic theory. A parametric analysis. Paper selected by a committee of referees.

Vitoria-Gasteiz, April 1-3. 19th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG 19), Universidad del País Vasco.

- The syntax of demonstratives. A parametric analysis. Paper selected by a committee of referees. Video presentation.

Thessaloniki, April 3-6. 19th International Symposium on Theoretical & Appied Linguisitcs (ISTAL 19).

- The syntax of demonstratives. A parametric analysis. Paper selected by a committee of referees.

Chios, June 11-14. 4th International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT 4).

- Syntactic Theories and Greek varieties. The case of demonstratives. Paper selected by a committee of referees.

Nijmengen, August 10-15. 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 19).

- Historical Change and Syntactic Theory. The Greek article. Paper selected by a committee of referees.

Reggio Emilia, October 14. Finzione e percezione della realtà, Doctoral Workshop.

- Verbi, tempi e azioni nella favola. Invited speech. Video presentation.

Padova, October 15. Giornata di Studio ASIt – Le varietà siciliane. Dipartimento di Discipline Linguistiche, Comunicative e dello Spettacolo.

- L’accusativo preposizionale: solo semantica? Invited speech. Video presentation.

Chicago, October 28 – November 1. 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL 9).

- The Greek demonstratives: history and syntax. Paper selected by a committee of referees. Video presentation.

Goettingen, November 16. L’uso dell’inglese nella comunità scientifica italofona. Invited seminar. Video presentation.

 

2008

Arezzo, January 17. Ideologie della competenza e test linguistici per la cittadinanza. (Workshop on Ideologies of linguistic competence and citizenship).

- Lo straniero nella stampa italiana. Introduzione ad un’analisi dei discorsi mediatici (Immigrants ad the Italian mass media. Analysis of media discourses).

Malta, February 21-22. Lingua, cultura e cittadinanza in contesti migratori. Europa e area mediterranea. VIII Congresso Internazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (Italian Association of Applied Linguistics, AItLA). Member of the organizing board.

Santa Barbara, CA, May 14. Basque studies symposium, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCSB.

Los Angeles, CA, May 16-18. 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Department of Linguistics, UCLA.

Cosenza, June 25-27. 25th Riunione Scientifica of the Italian Society of Statistics. Università della Calabria.

- Counting the number of languages we could speak (with Luca La Rocca, a two-sheets abstract is published in the proceedings)

Seoul, July 21-26. 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL 18).

- Toward a history and geography of human syntax (with Giuseppe Longobardi). Paper selected by a committee of reviewers.

- On the prospects of parametric comparison (with Giuseppe Longobardi). Paper selected by a committee of reviewers

Pisa, September 25-28. 52nd International Conference of the Italian Society of Linguistics. Scuola Normale Superiore.

-I dimostrativi fra sintassi e semantica. Proposte per un’analisi parametrica (Demonstratives between syntax and semantics. A parametric proposal). Paper selected by a committee of reviewers

Albuquerque (New Mexico), November 6-8. 8th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference (HDLS-8). University of New Mexico.

-Toward a History and Geography of Syntax (with Giuseppe Longobardi). Paper selected by a committee of reviewers

Wien, December 5-6. 36. Österreichischen Linguistiktagung, Universität Wien.

- The syntax of demonstratives. A parametric approach.

 

2007

Milano, February 22-23. Aspetti linguistici della comunicazione pubblica e istituzionale. VII Congresso Internazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (Italian Association of Applied Linguistics, AItLA). (Member of the organizing board).

Tromso, April 11-14. GLOW XXX The Thirtieth Annual Colloquium Generative Linguistics in Old World

- Modularized Global Parametrization and the Form of Parametric Variation (with Giuseppe Longobardi and Chiara Gianollo; the powerpoint of the presentation can be downloaded at: http://www.univ.trieste.it/~linglab/Powerpoint.html). Paper selected by a committee of reviewers.

Perugia, May 2. Workshop on Ideologies of communicative competence and language testing for citizenship.

Cosenza, May 24-25. Giornate di Studi. Le patologie del linguaggio. Prospettive teoriche ed esperienze terapeutiche. (Language disorders. Theoretical approaches and medical treatments). Invited speech.

- La prospettiva sintattica: orientamenti tradizionali sui disturbi del linguaggio (The syntactic perspective: traditional approaches on language disorders).

- La prospettiva sintattica: orientamenti formali e reperimento dei dati (The syntactic perspective: formal approaches and data collection).

Venezia, June 4-6. Biolinguistics: Language Evolution and Variation

- Towards a history and geography of human syntax (with Giuseppe Longobardi and Chiara Gianollo; the powerpoint of the presentation can be downloaded at: http://www.univ.trieste.it/~linglab/Powerpoint.html). Invited speech.

Nicosia (Cyprus), June 14-16. 3rd International Conference 
on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory.

- Genitives in the Greek nominal domain: parametric considerations (download the presentation here: Video version– Printable version). Paper selected by a committee of reviewers.

- Greek, Italian and their Dialects: a Quantitative Taxonomy (with Giuseppe Longobardi; download the powerpoint of the presentation here). Invited speech.

Erfurt, June 29-30. II AILA Meeting: Applied Linguistics in Europe. Representative of the organizing board of the Italian Association of Applied Linguistics (AItLA).

Montreal, August 6-11. ICHL 2007, the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics

- Genitives and adjectives in the history of Greek and Latin (with Chiara Gianollo). Paper selected by a committee of reviewers.

Wien, September 23-27. XXX Romanistentag. Wenn Deiktika nicht zeigen: Deiktische Formen als Satzkonnektoren und Diskursmarker. Deixis, Pragmatik und Grammatikalisierung.

- Usi non deittici e sintassi dei pronomi dimostrativi nelle varietà dell'italiano. Considerazioni teoriche e applicate (Non-deictic uses and the syntax of demonstratives in Italian. Theoretical and applied hypotheses). Paper selected by a committee of reviewers.

Trieste, October 12-13. Workshop on Formal Models of Linguistic Diversity.

- Towards a history and geography of human syntax (with Chiara Gianollo and Giuseppe Longobardi). Invited speech.

Verona, October 25-27. Lingue, ethnos e popolazioni: evidenze linguistiche, biologiche e culturali. XXII SIG (Società Italiana di Glottologia, Italian Society of Historical Linguistics) annual conference.

- Lingue, menti e storia: verso una storia e geografia della sintassi umana (languages, minds and history. Toward a history and geography of human syntax, with Giuseppe Longobardi and Chiara Gianollo). Invited speech.

 

2006

Napoli, February 9-10. Imparare una lingua. Recenti sviluppi teorici ed esperienze applicative. VI Congresso Internazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (Italian Association of Applied Linguistics, AItLA).  Member of the organizing board.

Firenze, March 2-4. XXXII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa.

- The underlying unity of Reference and Quantification. With Giuseppe Longobardi. Paper selected by a committee of reviewers.

Thessaloniki, May 6-7. 27th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Department of the “Aristotle University” of Thessaloniki.

- Syntactic theory and historical hypotheses: the Greek article. Paper selected by a committee of reviewers.

Trieste, June 8-10. University of Trieste. IX Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DIGS).

Member of the organizing committee (with Paola Crisma, Chiara Gianollo and Giuseppe Longobardi).

Paris, July 5-9. Digital Humanities 2006. The first ADHO (Association for Digital Humanities Organization) International Conference, Université Paris-Sorbonne.

- Is a ‘History and Geography of Human Syntax’ meaningful? (with Giuseppe Longobardi and Chiara Gianollo; the paper has been selected by a scientific committee and published in the conference proceedings; an abstract may be downloaded at: http://www.allc-ach2006.colloques.paris-sorbonne.fr/DHs.pdf).

Vercelli, September 21-23. Linguistica e modelli tecnologici della ricerca. XL Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana (Italian Society of Linguistics).

- Genealogie linguistiche e tassonomia computazionale. Per una ‘storia e geografia della sintassi umana’  (Linguistic genealogy and computational taxonomies. Toward a history and geography of human syntax; with Giuseppe Longobardi, Chiara Gianollo and Gabriele Rigon). Paper selected by a committee of reviewers.

Libera Università di Bolzano, September 29-30. AILA Meeting: Applied Linguistics in Europe. Representative of the organizing board of the Italian Association of Applied Linguistics (AItLA).

Modena, October 20. Giornata di studio su neurolinguistica e disturbi del linguaggio. Organized with the contribution of the “Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio e della Cultura”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and the Italian Association of Applied Linguistics. Member of the organizing board.

-  La prospettiva sintattica. Teorie e strumenti (The syntacti approach. Theories and tools).

Pisa, October 26-28. Categorie del verbo. Diacronia, teoria, tipologia. XXXI Convegno Annuale della Società Italiana di Glottologia (Italian Society of Historical Linguistics).

 

2005

Bari, February 17-18. Problemi e fenomeni di mediazione interlinguistica e interculturale, V Congresso Internazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (Italian Association of Applied Linguistics, AItLA).  Member of the Scientific Committee and of the Organizing board. Co-editor of the Conference Proceedings (with Emanuele Banfi, Laura Gavioli and Massimo Vedovelli).

Barcelona, April 4-6. 15° Coloquio de Gramàtica Generativa.

- Reference and Definiteness (with Giuseppe Longobardi). Paper selected by a committee of reviewers.

Amsterdam, June 23-26. ICLaVE 3. The third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe.

- Historical implications of a formal theory of syntactic variation (with Giuseppe Longobardi and Chiara Gianollo). Invited speech.

Newcastle, September 5-7. The structure of parametric variation.

- Is a ‘history and geography of human syntax meaningful? (with Giuseppe Longobardi and Chiara Gianollo). The paper has been selected by a scientific committee and published in the conference proceedings.

Milano, September 22-24. Lo spazio linguistico italiano e le Lingue Esotiche. XXXIX Congresso internazionale di studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana (Italian Society of Linguistics).

Delhi, 5-8 October. V Asian GLOW.

- Is a ‘history and geography of human syntax’ meaningful? (with Giuseppe Longobardi and Chiara Gianollo). The paper has been selected by a scientific committee and published in the conference proceedings.

Corigliano d’Otranto, October 6-8. 6th International Conference on Le forme dialettali della lingua greca dall’antichità ad oggi (6° PAGKOMIO GLWSSOLOGIKO SUNEDRIO, Oi dialktikeV morfeV thV ellhnikhV glwsssaV apo thn arcaia epoch mecri shmera), organized by ODEG (ORGANISMOS GIA TH DIEQNOPOIHSH THS ELLHNIKHS GLWSSAS).

- Diachronic changes in the Greek DP: a parametric interpretation. Paper selected by a committee of reviewers.

Bergamo, October 20-22. Standard e non standard tra scelta e norma. XXX Convegno annuale della Società Italiana di Glottologia (Italian Society of Historical Linguistics).

Modena, December 8-10. Die wissenschaftliche Kommunikation in Italien und Deutschland: Sprache, Text, Diskurs. University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio e della Cultura. Final Conference of the Vigoni Program (CRUI-DAAD).

- Ragioni del mutamento: fenomeni di obsolescenza e attrito (Reasons for change: obsolescence and attrition).

 

2004

Napoli, February 6-7. II Incontro sui mutamenti tipologici nella morfosintassi delle lingue indoeuropee. Final conference of the PRIN Research Program Mutamenti tipologici nella morfosintassi delle lingue indoeuropee, co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research.

- Mutamenti parametrici nella storia dell’articolo greco (Parameter changes in the history of the Greek article).

- La comparazione sintattica fra tipologia a genealogia (Syntactic comparison between typology and genealogy), with Giuseppe Longobardi and Chiara Gianollo.

Modena, February 19-20. La ricerca in Linguistica Applicata. Nuove riflessioni sul contatto e conflitto linguistico. IV Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (Italian Association of Applied Linguistics, AItLA). Member of the local organizing committee.

- Lingua percepita e costruzione identitaria (Perceived language and the construction of identity; with Augusto Carli; the paper has been selected by a scientific committee and published in the conference proceedings).

Porto, April. 14° Coloquio de Grammatica Generativa.

- Historical implications of a formal theory of syntactic variation (with Giuseppe Longobardi and Chiara Gianollo). Paper selected by a committee of reviewers.

Budapest, May 16-18. Tools in Linguistic Theory (TILT 2004).

- Historical implications of a formal theory of syntactic variation (with Giuseppe Longobardi and Chiara Gianollo). Paper selected by a committee of reviewers.

Yale University (New Heaven), Department of Linguistics, June 24-27. DISG VIII. VIII Diachronic Syntax Conference.

-Historical implications of a formal model of syntactic variation, con Giuseppe Longobardi e Chiara Gianollo.

- Parametric changes in the history of the Greek article.

Both papers have been selected by a scientific committee and have been published in the Conference Proceedings.

Modena, September 23-25. Lingue, Istituzioni, Territori. Riflessioni teoriche, proposte metodologiche ed esperienze nell’ambito della politica linguistica. XXXVIII Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana (Italian Society of Linguistics).

Member of the local organizing committee and co-editor of the conference proceedings (with Emilia Calaresu, Cecilia Robustelli and Augusto Carli).

Mytilene (Lesbo), September 30– Ottobre 3. Second International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory.

-  Parametric changes in the history of the Greek article (the paper has been selected by a scientific committee and published in the conference proceedings).

Hanover, December 9-10. Die wissenschaftliche Kommunikation in Italien und Deutschland: Sprache, Text, Diskurs. Universität Hannover, Lehrgebiet Romanistik. Mid-term conference of the Vigoni Program (CRUI-DAAD).

- Mutamento o… morte? (Language change or… death?).

 

2003

L’Aquila, September 25-27. La formazione delle Parole. XXXVII Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana (Italian Society of Linguistics).

Hanover, October 25. Terza Giornata della Cultura Italiana, University of Hannover, Lehrgebiet Romanistik  and Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Wolsfburg).

- Istituzione di un Gruppo di Osservazione, Studio e Intervento per la Politica Linguistica, GISPL (Foundation of a research group for the analysis and the study of language policies). Invited speech.

 

2002

Viterbo, January 25-26. I Incontro sui mutamenti tipologici nella morfosintassi delle lingue indoeuropee. Final conference of the PRIN Research Program Mutamenti tipologici nella morfosintassi delle lingue indoeuropee, co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research in 1999.

- La sintassi parametrica come fonte di generalizzazioni storico-comparative (Parametric syntax as a source of historical-comparative generalizations), with Giuseppe Longobardi.

Trieste, May 31– June 1. Giornate di studio sulla grammatica delle lingue classiche, organized with the contribution of the “Dipartimento di Scienze Geografiche e Storiche, Sezione di Linguistica”

- Note sulla parametrizzazione del sintagma nominale del Greco Antico (Notes for a parametric analysis of the Ancient Greek DP).

Perugia, September 10-11. Condizioni sul mutamento linguistico. II Workshop organized with the contribution of the University for Foreigners, Perugia.

- Note sulla parametrizzazione del sintagma nominale del Greco Antico (Notes for a parametric analysis of the Ancient Greek DP).

Bergamo, September 26-28. Ecologia Linguistica. XXXVI Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana (Italian Society of Linguistics).

Zgorzelec, November 28 – December 1. EU Border Identites (Border Discourse: Changing Identities, Changing Nations, Changing Stories in European Border Communities). Final Conference.

- Language and Identity in an Italian border community.

 

2001

Trieste, February 28– March 3. XXVII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, University of Trieste, Dipartimento di Scienze Geografiche e Storiche, Sezione di Linguistica. Member of the local organizing committee.

Trieste, June 22-23. Condizioni sul mutamento linguistico, I Workshop organized with the contribution of the “Dipartimento di Scienze Geografiche e Storiche, Sezione di Linguistica”, University of Trieste. Member of the local organizing committee.

Santa Barbara, July 19-22. ALT IV. Fourth Biennal Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara, July 27-29. 2001 International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Udine, November 30– December 1. La legislazione nazionale sulle minoranze linguistiche. Problemi, applicazioni, prospettive. Convegno in memoria di Giuseppe Francescato, University of Udine and Centro Internazionale sul Plurilinguismo (International Center on Multilingualism, CIP).

 

2000

Pisa, February 10-12. La dialettologia oggi fra tradizione e nuove metodologie. International Conference organized with the contribution of CNR-IFD and “Dipartimento di Linguistica”, University of Pisa. Member of the local organizing committee.

Forlì, October 12-13. II Congresso Annuale dell’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (Italian Association of Applied Linguistics, AItLA)

Macerata, October 26-28. Modelli recenti in linguistica. XXV Convegno Annuale della Società Italiana di Glottologia (Italian Society of Historical Linguistics).

 

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