Below you can find the talks which were given in the past.
(October) 2021 – (June) 2022
Michaelmas Term 2021
Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Jacqueline Almeida Toribio (University of Texas) – On the uniqueness of Dominican Spanish
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Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Jelena Zivojinovic (University of Verona) – The use of gerund in Rhaeto-Romance: a diachronic perspective
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Monday, 18 October 2021
Francisco Ordoñez (Stony Brook University) – Inalienable Location in Catalan and Spanish (joint work with Olga Fernández Soriano)
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Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Christine Meklenborg-Nilsen (University of Oslo) – Topicalisation strategies in Old French
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Tuesday, 2 November 2021
Stefano Freyr Castiglione (University College London) – Italian Right Dislocation is Biclausal: An Argument from Binding
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Tuesday, 9 November 2021
Giuliana Giusti (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice) – Protocol Linguistics: from theory to empirical advancements back to theory again
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Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Federica Breimaier (University of Zurich) – When the field moves online: a three-step approach to collect and analyze crowdsourced dialect data
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Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Valentina Colasanti (Trinity College Dublin) – Spatial and discourse deixis and the interactional structure of nominals
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Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Adina Dragomirescu (‘Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti’ Institute of Linguistics/University of Bucharest) – Word order in Istro-Romanian. New data
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Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Martin Maiden (University of Oxford) – Putting standard Romance languages in their place: two examples of misleading “standard language bias” in the historical morphology of Romanian
Lent Term 2022
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Diego Pescarini (Université Côte d’Azur and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) – Microvariation and statistical hypothesis testing: negation and negative concord in northern Italo-Romance
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Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick) – AUX cliticisation and loss of SVO in Romanian
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Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Javier Ormazabal Zamakona (University of the Basque Country) – All that glitters is not syntaX: agreement and the notion of default value (joint work with Juan Romero)
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Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Michele Loporcaro (University of Zurich) – Nouns as agreeement targets in Romance
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Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Ian MacKenzie (University of Newcastle) – True versus accidental V2 in Old Spanish
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Tuesday, 1 March 2022
Richard Kayne (New York University) – Hypercomplex Inversion and the Status of Expletive Pronouns
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Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Ana Lúcia Santos (University of Lisbon) – Control and inflected infinitives
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Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Heloisa Salles (University of Brasilia) & Maria Aparecida Torres Morais (University of São Paulo) – The pronominal realization of indirect objects in ditransitive constructions: the case of Dialectal and Standard Brazilian Portuguese
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Tuesday, 22 March 2022
John Charles Smith (Oxford University) – Defining Romance periphrases: paradigms and grammaticalization
Easter Term 2022
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
José Ignacio Hualde (Illinois University) and Céline Mounole (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’ Adour) – Romance contact in the restructuring of the Basque verbal system: Convergent and surprisingly divergent phenomena
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Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Paulo Ângelo Araújo Adriano (Universidade Estadual de Campinas/University of Cambridge) – From synthetic to analytic: The present tense in Brazilian Portuguese
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Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Carolina Fraga (City University of New York) – Completive todo in Rioplatense Spanish
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Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Giusy Truncellito (Università per Stranieri di Siena) – Reduplication in northeastern Calabrese
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Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Carlos Yebra López (New York University) – Revitalising Ladino by digital means: Towards a critical approach
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Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Carmelina Toscano (Università degli Studi di Firenze) – Su alcuni parametri di variazione: la pseudo-coordinazione in Calabria
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Tuesday, 7 June 2022
Janice Carruthers (Queen’s University Belfast) and Marianne Vergez-Couret (Université de Poitiers) – Temporality in Occitan and French oral narrative
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Tuesday, 14 June 2022
Lori Repetti (Stonybrook University) – Semantically vacuous insertions in Romance and beyond
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Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Chris Pountain (Queen Mary University of London) – Learnèd morphology? The grafting of cultured borrowing onto the morphology of Spanish
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Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Sara Cardullo (University of Cambridge) – Pseudocoordination in Eolian
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(October) 2020 – (June) 2021
Michaelmas Term 2020
Friday, 9 October 2020
Ionuț Geană (Arizona State University & ‘Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti’ Institute of Linguistics) – The Morphosyntax of Istro-Romanian DPs
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Thursday, 15 October 2020
Larisa Nicolaie (University of Bucharest) – An acoustic analysis of the /ij/ diphthong in Standard Daco-Romanian
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Thursday, 22 October 2020
Francisco Javier Calvo del Olmo (Universidade Federal do Paraná) – Intercomprehension between Romance Languages: a key for plurilingual education
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Thursday, 29 October 2020
Giuseppina Silvestri (UCLA) – Lost voices: sociolinguistic observations on the epistemic future in two varieties of the same dialect
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Thursday, 5 November 2020
Nicola Swinburne (University of Oxford) – The grammaticalization of ‘do’-support in the northern Italian Camuno dialect
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Thursday, 12 November 2020
Alice Corr (University of Birmingham) – Romance vocatives and the topological mapping of deviance
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Thursday, 19 November 2020
Sam Wolfe (University of Oxford) – A Fresh Look at Old Italo-Romance ‘Si’
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Thursday, 3 December 2020
Silvia Terenghi (Utrecht University) – Demonstrative systems in Portuguese-based creoles: Some markedness considerations
Lent Term 2021 (joint seminars with RoLO)
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Laura Migliori (Universiteit Leiden) – Purpose Prepositional Infinitives in Romance: properties and emergence
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Tuesday, 9 February 2021
Alberto Frasson (Utrecht University) – Interface properties of subject clitics: a study on antecedent selection
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Tuesday, 16 February 2021
Paul O’Neill (University of Sheffield) – The boundary between morphology and phonology and the concept of morphologization
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Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Jan Casalicchio (Università di Palermo) & Peter Herbeck (Universität Wien) – The structure of Pseudo-relatives in Spanish. A preliminary account
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Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Jan Casalicchio (Università di Palermo) & Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University) – Long passives of causatives and perception verbs in Italian: implications for phase theory
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Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Andrés Saab (IIF-SADAF-CONICET & Universidad de Buenos Aires) – From free pronouns to probes. A theory for a subset of Spanish clitics
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Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Caterina Bonan (University of Cambridge) – Low focus movement in Romance
Easter Term 2021
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Clara Cuonzo (University of Maryland) – Expressive adjectives in Romance: a comparative study
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Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Silvio Cruschina (University of Helsinki) – Ignorance and competence in polar questions: Discourse particles in Sicilian
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Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Luana Sorgini (Universiteit Utrecht) – A tripartite analysis of DOM. Evidence from Friulian varieties
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Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Ioana Aminian Jazi (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) – The Boyash in Hungary. A sociolinguistic outline of two (Romanian) vernaculars in decline
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Tuesday, 1 June 2021
Alessandro De Angelis (Università di Messina) – Sulla genesi del vocalismo “siciliano”
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Tuesday, 8 June 2021
Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester) – Suppletion is not silence
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Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Delia Bentley (University of Manchester) – Two types of external causation and the causative alternation in Romance
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Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Onkar Singh & Stefania Costea (University of Cambridge) – V2 reconsidered: a comparative analysis of verb-participle inversion in old Daco- and (old) Italo-Romance