Ongoing projects
Old projects
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From the old to the Young:
DJA/KNAW
This project aims at creating booklets and material for Abruzzese learning, o be distributed in schools, with the aim of checking the residual knowledge of the language in children and improving it.
PI: me (in collaboration with Francesco Avolio and Anna Rita Severini)
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I racconti di Miglianico is now out!
Splitting and Clustering Grammatical Information
NWO VIDI
This is a 5-year project focusing on a striking parallelism between two macro-groups of languages: southern Italian dialects and the so-called split-ergative languages, like Basque, Georgian, Dyirbal, Hindi/Urdu.
PI: me
PhD students: Giuseppe Torcolacci and Laura Migliori
Associated members: Claudio Di Felice, Irene Franco and Sara Lusini
The project website is here.
Maps & Grammar
NWO Vrije Competitie
Maps and Grammar is a research project examining the relation between linguistic properties of languages and their distribution in regional variants and dialects. The project runs from 2013 to 2018. The main part of the project work takes part at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam.
PIs: Sjef Barbiers and Marc van Oostendorp
Project members: Hans Bennis, Gertjan Postma, John Nerbonne, and me
PhD students and postdocs: Lotte Hendriks, Nina Ouddeken, Edoardo Cavirani, Erik Tjong Kim Sang
The project website is here.
Abruzzese Data Crowdsourcing
DJA/KNAW
This is an interactive website for dialect data crowdsourcing. It will make speakers part of their language documentation enterprise.
The website is almost ready. Stay tuned!
PIs: Bettina Speckmann and me
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