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Details for Professor Mair Parry
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Mair Parry |
| Job title | Senior Research Fellow in Italian Emeritus Professor |
| Department | Department of Italian University of Bristol Department of Italian University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | B.A., Ph.D.(Wales), M.A.(Oxon.) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | dialects Italy syntax of dialects sociolinguistics minority languages linguistics |
| Areas of expertise | The main focus of my research is on the syntax of the dialects of Italy, both early and modern, but I also publish on the current sociolinguistic situation in Italy and I am particularly interested in the question of minority languages. Since 2000 I have 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). I organise the Incontro di dialettologia italiana at Bristol each year and I have close links with the Departments of Linguistics at the universities of Padua and Naples. I have published a detailed sociolinguistic and grammatical analysis of a northern Italian dialect, Parluma 'D Còiri, Sociolinguistica e grammatica del dialetto di Cairo Montenotte, Savona, Società Savonese di Storia Patria Italy (2005). |