The Italian Specialization at the Graduate Center (CUNY) is happy to invite you to the lecture by Prof. Vincent (University of Manchester) entitled "Dialect meets standard: the literary and linguistic history of Milan." The lecture will take place on Friday, March 27 from 4.00-6.00 pm in the Comparative Literature Department, Room 4116.

The event is part of an ongoing series of lectures organized by the Ph. D. Program in Comparative Literature with the Italian Doctoral Specialization at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and generously sponsored by the Sonia Raiziss Giop Foundation. We hope to see many of you there!

The Italian Specialization, CUNY Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue - New York

Dialect meets standard: the literary and linguistic history of Milan
Prof. Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester)

What are conventionally called dialects in Italy range from the languages of small communities to those of large centres, which, if history had turned out differently, might have become independent national languages. In this talk Prof. Vincent focuses on Milanese dialect and examines the varied ways in which, in the hands of different writers (among the others, Carlo Maria Maggi, Domenico Balestrieri, Carlo Porta, and Laura Pariani), it has been made to interact with the Tuscan-derived literary standard.