BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news632@dslw.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220316T184708 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220322T171500 SUMMARY:«Piedmontese as a Heritage Language in Argentina: structural and s ociolinguistic issues» DESCRIPTION:Piedmontese is an Italo-Romance variety spoken as a minority la nguage in Piedmont\, a North-Western region of Italy. A variety of Piedmon tese has also been spoken for more than a century in several migrant commu nities of Argentina\, mostly in the provinces of Córdoba and Santa Fe. Im migration from Piedmont towards this area started in the end of XIX centur y\, in the framework of Argentina’s agricultural development plan\, whic h involved the foundation of agricultural colonies almost exclusively popu lated by migrant workforce. A vast majority of migrants in this area was o f Piedmontese origin and had Piedmontese dialect as their native language\ , while Italian was virtually absent from the linguistic repertoire of the pre-World War II working class. Therefore\, Piedmontese acquired the stat us of the main language of communication in these rural colonies and\, acc ording to the existing testimonies\, it was learned also by the local Arge ntinian population and by migrants from other regions.\\r\\nIn this talk w ill present the results that have emerged from a fieldwork enquiry that I conducted in the Piedmontese communities of Argentina in 2019. In the firs t part\, I will analyse the linguistic practices of the community\, that s till involve Piedmontese\, showing how language shift has been counterbala nced over the last decades by a process of cultural revival\, whose main a ctors are both Argentinian and Italian institutions. In the second part\, I will address the structural features of heritage Piedmontese. Contact wi th Spanish is obviously the main source of structural changes in Piedmonte se: along with morphological interference (e.g. in the sysyem of auxiliari es)\, frequent code-mixing of the insertional type has changed heritage Pi edmontese into a code-mixing style\, or fused lect in terms of Auer (1999\ , 2014)\, with systematic use of Spanish vocabulary. However\, there are o ther innovations for which other explanations beyond contact-induced chang e are needed: I  will propose to analyse them in terms of contact between different sub-regional varieties of Piedmontese\, and hence possibly koin eisation. X-ALT-DESC:

Piedmontese is an Italo-Romance variety spoken as a minority language in Piedmont\, a North-Western region of Italy. A variety of Piedm ontese has also been spoken for more than a century in several migrant com munities of Argentina\, mostly in the provinces of Córdoba and Santa Fe. Immigration from Piedmont towards this area started in the end of XIX cent ury\, in the framework of Argentina’s agricultural development plan\, wh ich involved the foundation of agricultural colonies almost exclusively po pulated by migrant workforce. A vast majority of migrants in this area was of Piedmontese origin and had Piedmontese dialect as their native languag e\, while Italian was virtually absent from the linguistic repertoire of t he pre-World War II working class. Therefore\, Piedmontese acquired the st atus of the main language of communication in these rural colonies and\, a ccording to the existing testimonies\, it was learned also by the local Ar gentinian population and by migrants from other regions.

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In this t alk will present the results that have emerged from a fieldwork enquiry th at I conducted in the Piedmontese communities of Argentina in 2019. In the first part\, I will analyse the linguistic practices of the community\, t hat still involve Piedmontese\, showing how language shift has been counte rbalanced over the last decades by a process of cultural revival\, whose m ain actors are both Argentinian and Italian institutions. In the second pa rt\, I will address the structural features of heritage Piedmontese. Conta ct with Spanish is obviously the main source of structural changes in Pied montese: along with morphological interference (e.g. in the sysyem of auxi liaries)\, frequent code-mixing of the insertional type has changed herita ge Piedmontese into a code-mixing style\, or fused lect in terms of Auer ( 1999\, 2014)\, with systematic use of Spanish vocabulary. However\, there are other innovations for which other explanations beyond contact-induced change are needed: I \; will propose to analyse them in terms of conta ct between different sub-regional varieties of Piedmontese\, and hence pos sibly koineisation.

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