Department of Italian

CIDSM - 4th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting

University of Cambridge

June 29^th- 30^th 2009

The Italian Department of the University of Cambridge is happy to announce that the 4th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting will take place at the University of Cambridge on 29th-30th June 2009. The meeting aims to bring together dialectologists working on any aspect of the syntax and/or morphology of the dialects of Italy and encourages all approaches - whether synchronic or diachronic, descriptive or theoretical (all frameworks) - to the dialects.

The invited speakers for CIDSM4 are:

Nunzio La Fauci (Zurich)

Guido Mensching (Berlin)

Ian Roberts (Cambridge)

Nigel Vincent (Manchester)

PROGRAMME

CIDSM4
Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Avenue, University of Cambridge

Monday 29 June

9.00 - 9.30 Registration
9.30 - 10.00 Cecilia Poletto (Venice) 'The syntax of focus negation'
10.00-10.30 Mair Parry (Bristol) 'Negative concord in the early vernaculars of Italy'
10.30-11.00 Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge) & Roberta D'Alessandro (Leiden) 'Grammaticalization in progress: The case of angore'
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.00 Eva Maria Remberger (Constanz) 'Speech features in the Sardinian left periphery'
12.00 - 1.00 Invited Speaker: Guido Mensching (Berlin) '20 years of Sardinian generative syntax: State of the art and open Issues'
1.00 - 2.30 Lunch
2.30 - 3.00 Francisco Ordóñez & Lori Repetti (SUNY, Stony Brook) 'Factors determining clitic vs weak pronoun choice in post-verbal position in Romance languages in Italy'
3.00 - 3.30 Massimo Cerruti (Turin) 'Condizioni e indizi di coniugazione oggettiva nei dialetti italiani settentrionali'
3.30 - 4.00 Rita Manzini & Leonardo Savoia (Florence) 'Mesoclisi all'imperativo: Morfologia, fonologia o sintassi?'
4.00 - 4.30 Coffee break
4.30 - 5.00 Luisa Amenta (Palermo) 'La reduplicazione sintattica in siciliano'
5.00 - 6.00 Invited Speaker: Nunzio La Fauci (Zurich) 'Comparare: questioni di metodo e di merito, dal dominio (italo)romanzo'
7.00 Cena sociale
Tuesday 30 June

9.15 - 9.45 Delia Bentley (Manchester) 'Subject markedness and pivot choice: A cross-dialectal survey'
9.45 - 10.15 Silvio Cruschina (Oxford) & Melanie Rinollo (Hamburg) 'Subject enclitic or agreement marker? The 2sg. -tu in Sicilian'
10.15 - 10.45 Chiara Cappellaro (Oxford) 'Multiple pronominal series from IPSE and ILLE in the dialects of Capo di Leuca (Salento)'
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 - 11.45 Francesca Modena (Padua) 'On the origin of prepositional infinitive in Italian dialects'
11.45 - 12.45 Invited Speaker: Nigel Vincent (Manchester) 'Compound verbal periphrases in Italo-Romance'
12.45 - 2.15 Lunch
2.15 - 2.45 Mariachiara Berrizzi & Diana Vedovato (Padua) 'Pronominal enclisis to some adverbial prepositions: Evidence for a low clitic position'
2.45 - 3.15 Christina Tortora (CUNY) 'Clausal domains and clitic placement generalizations in Italian dialects'
3.15 - 3.45 Federico Damonte (Padua) 'On the variation of the southern Calabrian particle mu'
3.45 - 4.15 Coffee break
4.14 - 4.45 Michela Cennamo (Naples) 'Anticausatives in early Italo-Romance'
4.45 - 5.45 Invited Speaker: Ian Roberts (Cambridge) 'Subject clitics and macroparameters'

Alternates
1. Jacopo Garzonio (Padua) & Hans-Georg Obenauer (Paris VIII)
'Argumental and 'why'-like 'what' in Florentine Special Questions'

2. Juan Testa (Utica)
'Syntactic Reduplication on Spanish Verbal Etyma in Neapolitan'

Click here to download a copy of the programme in pdf.

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Those interested in attending CIDSM 4, whether presenting a paper or not, should send an e-mail to Adam Ledgeway at anl21@cam.ac.uk by May 31 2009 to register (there is no registration fee).

CONFERENCE VENUE

The conference will be held on the lower floor of the Law Faculty on the Sidgwick Site of the University of Cambridge. For directions on how to get to the Law Faculty, please go to http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/about-the-faculty/how-to-find-us.php

ACCOMMODATION

For information about various accommodation possibilities (all price ranges), you may find the following sites useful:

For rooms in one of Cambridge's many colleges, go to this page
For the University's accommodation page (B & B's, hotels), go to this page

CONFERENCE DINNER

The conference dinner (Mediterranean-style menu, including vegetarian option) will take place a local restaurant on the first evening of the conference on Monday 29 June. The cost of the 2-course dinner will be �15 (excluding drinks and service charges). All are warmly invited and are asked to email Adam Ledgeway (anl21@cam.ac.uk) before 31 May to reserve a place. No bookings can be changed after that date and all individuals will be responsible for any cancellation charges.

CIDSM 4 Organising Committee

Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge)
Roberta D'Alessandro (University of Leiden)
Silvio Cruschina (University of Cambridge)

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9.00 - 9.30	Registration
9.30 - 10.00	Cecilia Poletto (Venice)	'The syntax of focus negation'
10.00-10.30	Mair Parry (Bristol)	'Negative concord in the early vernaculars of Italy'
10.30-11.00	Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge) & Roberta D'Alessandro (Leiden)	'Grammaticalization in progress: The case of angore'
11.00-11.30	Coffee break
11.30-12.00	Eva Maria Remberger (Constanz)	'Speech features in the Sardinian left periphery'
12.00 - 1.00	Invited Speaker: Guido Mensching (Berlin)	'20 years of Sardinian generative syntax: State of the art and open Issues'
1.00 - 2.30	Lunch
2.30 - 3.00	Francisco Ordóñez & Lori Repetti (SUNY, Stony Brook)	'Factors determining clitic vs weak pronoun choice in post-verbal position in Romance languages in Italy'
3.00 - 3.30	Massimo Cerruti (Turin)	'Condizioni e indizi di coniugazione oggettiva nei dialetti italiani settentrionali'
3.30 - 4.00	Rita Manzini & Leonardo Savoia (Florence)	'Mesoclisi all'imperativo: Morfologia, fonologia o sintassi?'
4.00 - 4.30	Coffee break
4.30 - 5.00	Luisa Amenta (Palermo)	'La reduplicazione sintattica in siciliano'
5.00 - 6.00	Invited Speaker: Nunzio La Fauci (Zurich)	'Comparare: questioni di metodo e di merito, dal dominio (italo)romanzo'
7.00	Cena sociale

9.15 - 9.45	Delia Bentley (Manchester)	'Subject markedness and pivot choice: A cross-dialectal survey'
9.45 - 10.15	Silvio Cruschina (Oxford) & Melanie Rinollo (Hamburg)	'Subject enclitic or agreement marker? The 2sg. -tu in Sicilian'
10.15 - 10.45	Chiara Cappellaro (Oxford)	'Multiple pronominal series from IPSE and ILLE in the dialects of Capo di Leuca (Salento)'
10.45 - 11.15	Coffee break
11.15 - 11.45	Francesca Modena (Padua)	'On the origin of prepositional infinitive in Italian dialects'
11.45 - 12.45	Invited Speaker: Nigel Vincent (Manchester)	'Compound verbal periphrases in Italo-Romance'
12.45 - 2.15	Lunch
2.15 - 2.45	Mariachiara Berrizzi & Diana Vedovato (Padua)	'Pronominal enclisis to some adverbial prepositions: Evidence for a low clitic position'
2.45 - 3.15	Christina Tortora (CUNY)	'Clausal domains and clitic placement generalizations in Italian dialects'
3.15 - 3.45	Federico Damonte (Padua)	'On the variation of the southern Calabrian particle mu'
3.45 - 4.15	Coffee break
4.14 - 4.45	Michela Cennamo (Naples)	'Anticausatives in early Italo-Romance'
4.45 - 5.45	Invited Speaker: Ian Roberts (Cambridge)	'Subject clitics and macroparameters'

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