Greek-Romance Language Contact in Southern Italy Documentation and Theory

Adam Noel Ledgeway, Full Professor of Italian Linguistics, University of Bergamo,Norma Schifano, Assistant Professor in Italian and Comparative Romance Linguistics, University of Cambridge,Giuseppina Silvestri, Continuing Lecturer in Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles

Adam Noel Ledgeway is Professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Bergamo, and before that was Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (1996-2024). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Member of the Academia Europaea. His research interests include the comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages, Italian dialectology, Latin, Italo-Greek, syntactic theory, linguistic change, and language contact.

Norma Schifano is Assistant Professor in Italian and Comparative Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Before taking up her current post, she worked at the Universities of Oxford, Manchester, and Birmingham. Her research interests include Italian and Romance comparative morphosyntax (diachronic and synchronic), language contact, language documentation of linguistic minorities and migrant communities, participatory research and research ethics, and pedagogical linguistics.

Giuseppina Silvestri is Continuing Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining UCLA, she held a research associate position at the University of Cambridge. Her research centres on language variation and change, particularly in low-resource languages, and the interfaces between phonology-syntax and between syntax-semantics. In addition, her work includes applying Natural Language Processing techniques to unstructured data.