My review of Patrícia Amaral and Miguel Delicado Cantero’s book Noun-based Constructions in the History of Portuguese and Spanish (Oxford University Press) is available! Check it out!
Category: Materials
UKCLC 2020 slides available
At the 7th United Kingdom Cognitive Linguistics Conference – UK-CLC2020, Cristiano Broccias and I gave a presentation entitled ‘The material V (NP) Ving construction within the V & Ving network.’ Download the slides! 😉 The online event was hosted by the University of Birmingham on July 27-29, 2020.
2019 conference slides available
The presentations Cristiano Broccias and I jointly gave in Germany in the Summer of 2019 are eventually available (sorry for the delay!). Read and download our contribution to the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea- SLE52 (Leipzig, August 21-24, 2019) and the talk we gave at the 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English – BICLCE2019 (Bamberg, September 26-28, 2019)! 😉
Invited talk at Universidade Católica Portuguesa
On October 14, 2019, I had the pleasure to be invited by Professor Augusto Soares da Silva to present at a small workshop on Cognitive / Construction Grammar at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Braga, Portugal, along with Dr. Joana Jacinto and Dr. Maitê Moraes Gil. Download the slides of my talk (in Portuguese), entitled ‘Alguns (potenciais) pontos cegos ontológicos e epistemológicos no quadro teórico da Gramática das Construções’! 😉
‘Exploring Language(s)’ video 04 out now!
The new ‘Exploring Language(s)’ video is now online. It is the second part of a comparison between Spanish and Italian, two Romance languages whose differences are too often undervalued. In this second episode, I will deal with issues regarding grammar and lexicon. Watch it in the language you prefer! 😉
🇬🇧 English
The links to all YouTube videos are listed in reverse chronological order here.
‘Exploring Language(s)’ video 03 is out now!
Spanish vs. Italian – part I: Pronunciation and orthography
The new ‘Exploring Language(s)’ video is now online. It is the first part of a comparison between Spanish and Italian, two Romance languages whose differences are too often undervalued. In this first episode, I will deal with issues regarding pronunciation and orthography. Watch it in the language you prefer! 😉
🇬🇧 English
The links to all YouTube videos are listed in reverse chronological order here.
‘Exploring Language(s)’ video 02 is out now!
Why it is time to accept that the English language today is a diversity policentric entity, and no variety is inherently superior to (or more real than) any other.
The new video is out now! Watch it in the language you prefer! 😉
🇬🇧 The myth of ‘real English’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UcB-IDEQT4
🇪🇸 El mito del ‘verdadero inglés’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3DZjHDlfig
🇮🇹 Il mito del ‘vero inglese’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIs_IGqT-0c
The links to all YouTube videos are listed in reverse chronological order here.
My review of Wright (2018)
SHESL-HTL slides available
The slides of the presentation I gave at the Colloque de la Société d’Histoire et d’Epistémologie des Sciences du Langage, entitled ‘Sifting through the pages of WORD: The International Linguistic Association as a promoter of academic pluralism,’ are now available for download. The event took place at Université Paris Diderot on January 24-26, 2019. It was an honor to join SHESL and be part of such a great conference.
Enrico Torre 