Societa’ Linguistica Italiana was founded in 1967 as an initiative by eminent Italian and American academics among whom one may find Robert Hall jr, Luigi Heilmann, Gianfranco Folena and Tullio De Mauro.
Each year the society publishes an informative bulletin on the linguistic teachings in all the Italian Universities, the studies of the members, the various linguistic congresses that take place around the world and also regularly updates its website.
Its major event is, without doubt, the international congress that takes place each year in one of the Italian universities. Sometimes this congress takes place in another country, as it happened in 1995 when Gabriella Alfieri, Giuseppe Brincat and Arnold Cassola organized it in Malta. The President, Emanuele Banfi, expressed the wish to hold this congress once again in Malta, leaving the organization in the able hands of Giuseppe Brincat and Sandro Caruana in collaboration with Mario Pace and Phyllisienne Gauci from the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Malta.
The theme of the Congress of this year is “Tipologia e dintorni. Il metodo tipologico alla intersezione di piani d’analisi” and among the participants there will be Paolo Ramat (Pavia), Grev Corbett (Surrey) and Thomas Stolz (Bremen). Tullio De Mauro, one of the founders of SLI will also attend the Congress. Five workshops will take place within the context of the Congress.