53rd Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 53)

9:00 - 9:30 (30min)

Registration and Coffee

9:30 - 9:45 (15min)

Welcome Message: Prof. Rima Sleiman, Vice-President for Research, INALCO and Dr. Barbara Hemforth, Director, Labex Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (EFL)

9:45 - 10:45 (1h)

Invited Speaker: Virginia Hill - Dissecting vocatives: how a noun becomes an address

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Invited Speaker: Virginia Hill

https://lsrl53.sciencesconf.org/data/program/abstract.pdf

10:45 - 13:00 (2h15)

Syntax

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Chair: Monica Alexandrina Irimia

› French Subject Doubling: A Third Path - Yiming Liang, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Cité - UFR Linguistique [Sociétés et Humanités], Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Spanish VPE as Clitic Doubling - Alejo Alcaraz, EHU/UPV 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Right Dislocation as a Parenthetical Construction - Stefano Freyr Castiglione, University College, London 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› Middle constructions, dative possessors and word order in Spanish - Imanol Suarez-Palma, University of Florida [Gainesville] 12:30-13:00 (30min)

10:45 - 13:00 (2h15)

Heritage languages

Room 3.05

Chair: Julia Herschensohn

› Definite article omissions in the heritage Italo-Romance varieties of New York City - Luigi Andriani, Universität Hamburg - Manuela Pinto, Universiteit Utrecht 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Underuse and overgeneralization in child heritage Romanian - Larisa Avram, University of Bucharest (ROMANIA) 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Developing epenthetic vowels in consonant clusters in heritage Spanish - Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura, McMaster University [Hamilton, Ontario] 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› Heritage Romanian: the acquisition of object clitic pronouns - Mihaela Pirvulescu, University of Toronto Mississauga - Virginia Hill, University of New Brunswick 12:30-13:00 (30min)

10:45 - 13:00 (2h15)

Semantics

Room 3.12

Chair: Elena Castroviejo

› Rudin constructions in Romanian: identity of relations via multiple wh-clauses - Anamaria Falaus, CNRS-LLING 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› What a modal superlative is anchored to - Damien Fleury, Université Paris Cité - UFR Linguistique [Sociétés et Humanités] - Lucia M. Tovena, Université Paris Cité - UFR Linguistique [Sociétés et Humanités] 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› On Italian di+ART nominals. Cross-linguistic and cross-categorial explorations - Paolo Morosi, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› Negation and Spanish zero event deverbal nominals - Laura Ros García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid] 12:30-13:00 (30min)

13:00 - 14:30 (1h30)

Lunch

14:30 - 16:30 (2h)

Italy - Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology

Room 3.05

Chair: Michela Russo

› Geminates are not just longer singletons: evidence from Italian articulatory data - Francesco Burroni, LMU Münich 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› The syllabification of /sw/ in Italian and the phonological status of /w/ - Piero Cossu, University of Pisa - Università di Pisa 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› The sibilant system in Northern Italy. Some considerations from a marginal area - Alberto Giudici, University of Zurich 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› Diphthongisation patterns in Venetian and Friulian - Tommaso Balsemin, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main 16:00-16:30 (30min)

14:30 - 16:30 (2h)

Information structure

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Chair: Vieri Samek-Lodovici

› The syntactic distribution of information focus and the mapping between syntax and information structure - Silvio Cruschina, Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki - Laia Mayol, Universitat Pompeu Fabra [Barcelona] 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Focus, stress assignment, and Spell-Out in Camuno. - Matteo Fiorini, University of Utah 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Focusing adverbs don't exist! - Aquiles Tescari Neto, Universidade Estadual de Campinas = University of Campinas - Sandra Quarezemin, Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› Mapping focus to prosody in Italian: The case of wh-questions - Giuliano Bocci, University of Siena - Valentina Bianchi, University of Siena - Silvio Cruschina, Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki 16:00-16:30 (30min)

14:30 - 16:30 (2h)

Syntax

Room 3.08

Chair : Caterina Donati

› Italian/Romance imperatives as radically reduced structures: a corpus study - Sarah Rossi, University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Deriving the interpretations and constraints of Italian si-constructions: A new analysis and its consequences for a typology of Voice - Leonardo Russo Cardona, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Disjunction under single referent: voiding the ban on clitic coordination - Adrian Stegovec, University of Connecticut 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› On the definite article el heading clauses in Spanish (el-que): some syntactic and semantic properties - Cristina Ruiz-Alonso, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 16:00-16:30 (30min)

14:30 - 16:30 (2h)

Semantics

Room 3.12

Chair : Lucia Tovena

› Word- or root-derived? A semantic test for instrument denominal verbs in Italian - Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Switching tenses and switching times: towards a grammar of the Historical Present - Brenda Laca, Universidad de la República, Academia Nacional de Letras 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Goals, end-points and scales - Cristina Real Puigdollers, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› Tenses as discourse topic functions: evidence in Old and Modern/Contemporary French - Patrick Caudal, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle 16:00-16:30 (30min)

16:30 - 16:50 (20min)

Coffee break

16:50 - 19:20 (2h30)

Acquisition - Bilingualism

Room 3.12

Chair: Miguel Rodriguez-Mondoñedo

› Adopting the Romance Way: Syntax, Prosody and Meaning in Elementary Spanish Learners - Sebastian Leal-Arenas, University of Pittsburgh 16:50-17:20 (30min)

› Asymmetries in narrow-focus cleft sentences: a study on spoken L2 Italian and French - Bianca Maria De Paolis, Structures Formelles du Langage 17:20-17:50 (30min)

› Insights into the Acquisition of Simple and Complex Disjunction Markers in Romanian - Adina Camelia Bleotu, University of Bucharest - Gabriela Bîlbîie, University of Bucharest - Mara Panaitescu, University of Bucharest 17:50-18:20 (30min)

› Three experiments on early parsing of subject-verb agreement in Catalan - Anna Gavarró, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 18:20-18:50 (30min)

› The intersection between bilingual language dominance and patterns of code-switching: Evidence from Spanish–English contact - Daniel Olson, Purdue University [West Lafayette] 18:50-19:20 (30min)

16:50 - 19:20 (2h30)

Syntax

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Chair: Silvio Cruschina

› For which speakers do you wonder whether si is a syntactic island? - Bradley Hoot, DePaul University, Chicago - Shane Ebert, University of Illinois [Chicago] 16:50-17:20 (30min)

› Activation levels: A Fresh perspective on French wh in-situ - Lena Baunaz, Université de Genève - Caterina Bonan, University of Cambridge 17:20-17:50 (30min)

› French wh in situ: Where are we and where do we go from here? - Lena Baunaz, Université de Genève - Giuliano Bocci, Università di Siena - Ur Shlonsky, Université de Genève 17:50-18:20 (30min)

› Corrective Focus in Italian Wh-Questions - Vieri Samek-Lodovici, University College of London 18:20-18:50 (30min)

› Clause internal or fronted? The syntax and pragmatics of wh-words in Valdôtain Patois - Luisa Seguin, University of Maryland College Park 18:50-19:20 (30min)

16:50 - 18:50 (2h)

Syntax - Morphology

Room 3.05

Chair: Fabio Montermini

› Semi-lexicality and the syntax of pseudopartitives - Laura Arias, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 16:50-17:20 (30min)

› A puzzling constraint on Italian adjectives - Davide Mocci, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori 17:20-17:50 (30min)

› Colourful modifiers. How overt morphology restricts the distribution of Italian adjectives - Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main - Giacomo Presotto, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main 17:50-18:20 (30min)

› The morphosyntactic sources of bareness: bare ‘locative' nouns in Ladin - Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main 18:20-18:50 (30min)

19:30 - 21:30 (2h)

Welcome Reception: drinks & hors d'oeuvres - at Inalco

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