Full Title: Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (CIDSM 18)
Short Title: CIDSM 18

Date: 25-Jun-2024 - 27-Jun-2024
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Delia Bentley
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://cidsm18.wordpress.com/

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2024

Meeting Description:

La XVIII edizione del CIDSM si terrà presso il Dipartimento di Linguistica e Lingua Inglese dell’Università di Manchester dal 25 al 27 giugno 2024.

Il CIDSM offre un’opportunità di discussione e di interazione a chi si occupi di sintassi e/o morfologia dei dialetti d’Italia (varietà non italo-romanze incluse), incoraggiando tutti gli approcci – sia sincronici che diacronici, sia descrittivi che teorici e formali – allo studio dei dialetti e/o delle lingue regionali d’Italia.

La XVIII edizione includerà un simposio intitolato Information structural interfaces: The Romance languages of Italy and beyond, finanziato dal Research Development Support Fund della School of Arts, Languages and Cultures dell’Università di Manchester. Il simposio si terrà il 27 giugno (si veda il sito del convegno per ulteriori informazioni al riguardo). Le giornate precedenti saranno dedicate a sessioni generali a tema aperto e includeranno una sessione dedicata ai poster.

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The 18th CIDSM will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics and English Language of the University of Manchester from 25 to 27 June 2024.

The CIDSM aims to bring together scholars working on any aspect of the syntax and/or the morphology of the dialects of Italy (including non-Italo-Romance varieties) and encourages all frameworks and approaches – whether synchronic or diachronic, descriptive or theoretical – to the study of the regional languages and dialects spoken in Italy.

The 18th edition will include a symposium entitled Information structural interfaces: The Romance languages of Italy and beyond. This is funded by the Research Development Support Fund of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures of the University of Manchester. The symposium is scheduled on 27 June (please see the conference website for further relevant information). The preceding days will be dedicated to general, open-theme, sessions, which will include a poster session.

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FURTHER INFORMATION:

Invited speakers
Valentina Colasanti, Trinity College Dublin.
Franck Floricic, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3.

Key dates
The deadline for abstract submission is midnight on 31 January 2024.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 March 2024.
The deadline for registration and payment of the conference fee will be on 15 May 2024.

Registration
A fixed registration fee of 40 pounds will go towards the cost of lunches and coffee breaks. Details on how to make the payment will be provided in due course.
We hope that we will have some bursaries available to pay the registration fee of doctoral students who present a poster. Such students are encouraged to check the conference website for further information.

Organising committee (University of Manchester)
Delia Bentley, Simone De Cia, Elizabeth Tobyn, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Núria Barrios Jurado, Michael Green.

Scientific committee
Delia Bentley (University of Manchester), Simone De Cia (University of Manchester), Elizabeth Tobyn (University of Manchester), Luisa Amenta (University of Palermo), Jan Casalicchio (University of Siena), Francesco Maria Ciconte (University of Chieti-Pescara), Silvio Cruschina (University of Helsinki), Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht University), Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University of Manchester), Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge), Michele Loporcaro (University of Zurich).

Call for Papers:

Si invitano gli interessati a sottoporre proposte per un poster o una comunicazione relativi a qualsiasi aspetto di sintassi e/o morfologia dei dialetti d’Italia. Ogni intervento durerà 20 minuti, seguiti da 10 minuti per la discussione. È possibile presentare un massimo di 1 proposta come autore singolo + 1 proposta come coautore, oppure un massimo di 2 proposte come coautore. Le lingue del convegno saranno l’italiano e l’inglese.

Invio delle proposte
Le proposte devono essere inviate tramite Oxford Abstracts, creando un account sul sito https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/8386/submitter e indicando se la proposta è per un poster o una comunicazione. Il testo anonimo dovrà includere il titolo e non dovrà superare le due pagine (inclusi esempi, illustrazioni e bibliografia) e i 7000 caratteri (a 12 punti).

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Abstracts are invited for posters or talks on any aspect of the syntax and/or the morphology of the dialects of Italy. The talks will not exceed 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for the discussion. Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author, or 2 joint abstracts per author. The conference languages are Italian and English.

Abstract submission
Abstracts must be submitted through Oxford Abstracts, creating an account here https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/8386/submitter and indicating whether the proposal is for a poster or for a talk. The proposals must be anonymous and must include a title. They must not exceed two pages (including examples, illustrations and bibliography) and 7000 characters (font size 12).