2024 IUSS Linguistics Seminars
Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics (NEP) Lab
PhD in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics (TEL)

Introduced by:
Prof. Andrea Moro
Prof. Valentina Bambini

All seminars can be attended via Zoom

For further information:
matteo.greco@iusspavia.it
federico.frau@iusspavia.it
chiara.battaglini@iusspavia.it

FIRST ROUND OF TALKS

Robyn Carston (University College London, UK)
Words and the language-communication relation
February 19, 2024, 11.00 am – 12.30 pm CET (Palazzo del Broletto, Sala del Camino)

Rósa S. Gísladóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland)
Genetics of language and pragmatics: why and how?
March 4, 2024, 11.00 am – 12.30 pm CET (Palazzo del Broletto, Sala del Camino)

Luigi Gianmaria Remore (IRCCS Ca'Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico & University of Milan La Statale, Italy)
Deep Brain Stimulation: Brain Surgery to Restore Brain Functions
March 11, 2024, 14.30 – 16.00 pm CET (Palazzo del Broletto, Library)

Johan J. Bolhuis (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
The Biology of Language
March 25, 2024, 14.30 – 16.00 pm CET (Zoom meeting only)

Maria Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
On syntactic vs. semantic expletives. Why do natural languages have expletive negation?
April 22, 2024, 14.30 – 16.00 pm CEST (Zoom meeting only)

Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge, UK)
Parameters of Microvariation in the Clausal Domain: A Pan-Romance View
April 29, 2024, 14.30 – 16.00 pm CEST (Zoom meeting only)

Einat Shetreet (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Language in social context
May 6, 2024, 11.30 am – 13.00 pm CEST (Palazzo del Broletto, Room 1.15)

Nicola Grandi (University of Bologna, Italy)
The written Italian of University students: sociolinguistic framework and structural features
May 20, 2024, 11.30 am – 13.00 pm CEST (Palazzo del Broletto, Room 1.17)

All seminars can be attended via Zoom

For further information:
matteo.greco@iusspavia.it
federico.frau@iusspavia.it
chiara.battaglini@iusspavia.it

SECOND ROUND OF TALKS

Introduced by:
Prof. Andrea Moro
Prof. Valentina Bambini

Vicky Lai (University of Arizona, USA)
The role of metaphor in learning science concepts
May 27, 2024, 11.00 am – 12.30 pm CEST (Palazzo del Broletto, Sala del Camino)

Karen De Clercq (Université Paris Cité, France)
Form Meaning Mismatches in Nanosyntax
May 27, 2024, 14.30 – 12.30 pm CEST (Zoom meeting only)

Steven Bethard (University of Arizona, USA)
Adapting machine learning models for clinical language processing
May 28, 2024, 11.00 am – 12.30 pm CEST (Palazzo del Broletto, Room 1.17)

Anna M. Borghi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Abstract concepts, vagueness and social interactions
June 14, 2024, 9.30 – 11.00 am CEST (Palazzo del Broletto, Sala del Camino)

Jan Casalicchio (University of Siena, Italy)
The structure of causative and perception constructions in Italian: new data from passivization
June 17, 2024, 14.30 – 16.00 pm CEST (Zoom meeting only)

Giorgio Graffi (University of Verona, Italy)
Linguistica e storia della linguistica, ideal history vs. actual history
July 1, 2024, 14.30 – 16.00 pm CEST ( Palazzo del Broletto, Room 1.16 and Zoom meeting)

Marco Mancini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
TBD
July 15, 2024, 14.30 – 16.00 pm CEST (Zoom meeting only)