Diachrony and Dialects
Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy
Edited by Paola Beninca, Adam Ledgeway, and Nigel Vincent
Author Information
Paola Beninca is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of Padua, and before that was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Milan, and researcher at the Centre for Italian Dialectology of the National Research Council in Padua. Her research interests include synchronic and diachronic Romance syntax and morphology, and the history of linguistics. Recent works include chapters of the Grammatica dell'Italiano Antico (ed. G. Salvi and L. Renzi, 2010) and the collection of papers Mapping the Left Periphery: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 5, which she co-edited with Nicola Munaro (OUP 2010). She has coordinated the on-line data-base ASIt ('Atlas of Italian Dialect Syntax').
Adam Ledgeway is Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. His research interests include Italian dialectology, the comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages, Latin, syntactic theory and linguistic change. His recent publications include Grammatica diacronica del napoletano (Niemeyer 2009); Syntactic Variation: The Dialects of Italy (CUP 2010, co-edited with Roberta D'Alessandro and Ian Roberts); The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages Vol 1: Structures, Vol 2: Contexts (CUP 2011, 2013, co-edited with Martin Maiden and J.C. Smith); and From Latin to Romance: Morphosyntactic Typology and Change (OUP 2012).
Nigel Vincent is Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics at The University of Manchester, following retirement from the Mont Follick Chair in Comparative Philology, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Copenhagen, Pavia and Rome and an Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury (NZ). His publications include The Romance Languages (with Martin Harris, 1988) and articles on morphosyntactic change, with special reference to Latin, Italian and the dialects of Italy. He co-directed with Mair Parry and Robert Hastings the AHRC-funded project Sintassi degli antichi volgari d'Italia (SAVI) (2000-2005).
Contributors:
Paola Benincà, University of Padua
Delia Bentley, University of Manchester
Michela Cennamo, University of Naples Federico II
Guglielmo Cinque, University of Venice Ca' Foscari
Adam Ledgeway, University of Cambridge
Anna Laura Lepschy, University College London
Giulio Lepschy, University College London
Alessandra Lombardi, University of Cambridge
Michele Loporcaro, University of Zurich
Martin Maiden, University of Oxford
Nicola Munaro, University of Venice Ca' Foscari
Diego Pescarini, University of Padua
Cecilia Poletto, Goethe University, Frankfurt
Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
John Charles Smith, University of Oxford
Rosanna Sornicola, University of Naples Federico II
John B. Trumper, University of Calabria
Laura Vanelli, University of Padua
Nigel Vincent, University of Manchester