Professor Mair Parry

M.M.parry@bristol.ac.uk Tel: 0117 3317501 Research Interests Mair Parry was appointed to a Personal Chair in Italian Linguistics at Bristol in 1998. The main focus of her research is on the syntax of the dialects of Italy, both early and modern, but she also publishes on the current sociolinguistic situation in Italy and is particularly interested in the question of minority languages. Since 2000 she has been co-directing a major AHRB-funded collaborative research project with the University of Manchester entitled, Sintassi degli antichi volgari d'Italia (SAVI) (Syntax of the early vernaculars of Italy). She organises the Incontro di dialettologia italiana at Bristol each year and has close links with the Departments of Linguistics at the universities of Padua and Naples. She was joint editor of The Changing Voices of Europe. Social and Political changes and their linguistic repercussions, Cardiff, The University of Wales Press and MHRA (1994) and The Dialects of Italy, London, Routledge (1997), and has published a detailed sociolinguistic and grammatical analysis of a northern Italian dialect, Parluma 'D Cņiri, Sociolinguistica e grammatica del dialetto di Cairo Montenotte, Savona, Societą Savonese di Storia Patria Italy (2005). Selected recent publications: 2006   'Markedness, Salience and Language change: exploring an Italo-Romance transition area' in A. L. Lepschy e A. Tosi,  Rethinking Languages in Contact: The Case of Italian, Oxford, Legenda, 55-72. 2005   (with Nigel Vincent and Robert Hastings) 'Il progetto SAVI, presentazione, procedure, e problemi',in M. Dardano e G. Frenguelli, SintAnt. La sintassi dell'italiano antico. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Universitą di "Roma Tre". 18-21 settembre 2002), Roma, Aracne, 501-528. 2003 'Cosa ch'a l'é sta storia' The interaction of pragmatics and syntax in the development of WH interrogatives with overt complementizer in Piedmontese', in C. Tortora (ed.), The Syntax of Italian Dialects, New York, OUP, 152-74.

2007 'Strategie relative (con antecedente espresso) nell'italo-romanzo nord-occidentale', in R. Maschi, N. Penello, P. Rizzolatti, Miscellanea di Studi Linguistici offerti a Laura Vanelli da amici e allievi padovani, ed. Forum Editrice, Udine, pp. 259-272.

2007 'The interaction of semantics and syntax in the spread of relative che in the early vernaculars of Italy', in D. Bentley and A. Ledgeway, Sui dialetti italoromanzi. Saggi in onore di Nigel B. Vincent, Special Supplement 1. to The Italianist, 27, 200-19.

2006  'Il contatto linguistico: aspetti teorici e metodologici', in A. A. Sobrero and A. Miglietta, Lingua e dialetto nell'Italia del duemila, Galatina, Congedo, 77-99.

2003 'The Challenges to Multilingualism Today' in Multilingual Italy, ed. A. Lepschy and A. Tosi, Oxford, Legenda, pp. 47-59.

2003 'La "strana" struttura dialettale della Val Bormida', in Italiano. Strana lingua' atti del convegno, Sappada/Plodn (Belluno), 3-7 luglio 2002, ed. G. Marcato, Padova, Unipress, 211-225.

2003 'L'oggetto preposizionale nel ligure medievale', Verbum, Analecta Neolatina 5: 113-26.

2002 'Piemontese e gallese: punti di sintassi comparativa', in At dij XIV e XV Rėscontr internassional dė studi an sla lenga e la literatura piemontčisa, ed. Clivio, Gianrenzo P., Dario Pasero and Censin Pich, Ivrea, La Slņira, 155-69.

2001 'La classificazione del cairese fra le varietą italo-romanze' in F. Toso (ed), Studi e ricerche sui dialetti dell'Alta Val Bormida, Millesimo, Comunitą Alta Val Bormida, 45-67.

2000 'Accordo e soggetti postverbali in piemontese', in Actes du XXIIeCongrčs international de Linguistique et Philologie romanes, Bruxelles 1998, VI. De la grammaire des formes ą la grammaire du sens, Tübingen, Niemeyer, 391-402.

1998 'The reinterpretation of the reflexive in Piedmontese: 'impersonal' SE constructions', Transactions of the Philological Society, 96: 63-116.

1997 'Clitic ordering in the dialects of the Ligurian-Piedmontese border, with particular reference to the preverbal negative', Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 113: 243-71.

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