An interview on linguistic variation with
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Joan Veny i Clar is Professor Emeritus of Catalan Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona. He is one of the most important dialectologists of Catalan, with prominent works such as the 1978 monograph Els parlars catalans (“The Catalan dialects”), although he has also done extensive work in the diachronic linguistics and etymology of this language. He is a member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, the Catalan Academy of Science and Humanities, where he currently leads the project Atlas lingüístic del domini català, ALDC (“Linguistic atlas of the Catalan domain”), accessible at http://aldc.espais.iec.cat/
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An interview on linguistic variation with
Giuseppe Longobardi is Anniversary Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science of the University of York. He has worked in theoretical and comparative syntax, with a special interest in the study of the structural correspondence of meaning. The structure of nominal expressions and the syntax of negation and negative quantifiers are two of the most prominent top...
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