53rd Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 53)

9:00 - 9:15 (15min)

Coffee break

9:15 - 10:15 (1h)

Invited speaker: Xavier Bach - Pronominalizing clauses and predicates in Romance

Auditorium

Xavier Bach

10:15 - 12:30 (2h15)

Minority Languages

Auditorium

› Judeo-Spanish differential object marking and microvariation in Balkan Romance - Alice Corr, University of Birmingham [Birmingham] 10:30-11:00 (30min)

› Satellite-framed patterns in Belgo-Romance dialects: a typological and geolinguistic study - Léonore Dubru, Université de Liège 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› The parametric variation of possessives in Italian and some Italian dialects - Francesca Volpato, University of Ca' Foscari [Venice, Italy] - Gianluca Lebani, University of Ca' Foscari [Venice, Italy] 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Written Spanish by Deaf signers as a L2 Spanish variety - Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú = Pontifical Catholic University of Peru 12:00-12:30 (30min)

10:15 - 12:30 (2h15)

Syntax

Room 3.05

Chair Ruth Lopes

› Complementizer deletion: parametric implications and verb movement - Elena Isolani, University of Cambridge [UK] 10:30-11:00 (30min)

› An empirical study on Complementizer Deletion in Spanish. New evidence in favour of an empty C head. - Clarissa Facchin, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› A Parameter-free Underspecification Approach to Complementizer Agreement - Acrisio Pires, University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› A Novel Feature of the complementizer system in Cabo Verdean Creole - Yushi Sugimoto, University of Tokyo; Marlyse Baptista, University of Pennsylvania 12:00-12:30 (30min)

10:15 - 12:30 (2h15)

Sociolinguistics

Room 3.12

Chair: Maria Candea

› The French pronoun iel on Twitter: a gendered use of a non-gendered form? - Yanis da Cunha, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle 10:30-11:00 (30min)

› Opening the black box of social meaning: A pragmatic sociological treatment of variable liaison in spoken French - Alexander Martin, University of Groningen [Groningen] 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Lluito en català pero amo en castellano: Language Ideologies and Registerial Repertoire in the Linguistic Landscape of Barcelona - Marguerite Morlan, University of California, Berkeley 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Attitudes towards possessive constructions in La Palma, Islas Canarias - Laura Merino Hernández, Humboldt University Of Berlin - Miriam Bouzouita, Humboldt University Of Berlin 12:00-12:30 (30min)

12:30 - 14:00 (1h30)

Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Phonetics / Phonology

Room 3.12

Chair: Anisia Popescu

› Syllable weight effects on L2 Portuguese stress identification may be sonority-driven - Chao Zhou, University of Lisbon 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Voicing of Plosives in Murcian Spanish: Current state of the production of /d t g k/ - Andrea Hernandez Hurtado, University of Pittsburgh - Marta Ortega-Llebaria, University of Pittsburgh 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› The Nuances of /R/: An Analysis of Progressive and Regressive Voicing Assimilation in Quebec French - Mélanie Lancien, LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018, Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique, GULP - Mathilde Hutin, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique [Bruxelles] 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› An acoustic and distributional approach to disfluent repetitions in Romanian spontaneous speech - Maria Candea, Sorbonne Nouvelle Université - Oana Niculescu, Romanian Academy Institute of Linguistics "Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti" 15:30-16:00 (30min)

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

Syntax

Room 3.05

Chair: Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin

› Majorcan Catalan and corpora analysis: a window to analyse past participle agreement as an epiphenomenon - Sebastià Salvà i Puig, Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Accounting for the syntactic restrictions of allocutive agreement - Brian Gravely, Emory University 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Extreme locality feeds copular agreement - Brian Gravely, Emory University 15:00-15:30 (30min)

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Diachrony

Auditorium

Chair: Karen De Clercq

› Romanian Definite DPs: a Diachronic view - Daniela Isac, Concordia University 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Are French and Venetian V2 languages? A diachronic treebank analysis - Pierre Larrivée, Centre de recherche inter-langues sur la signification en contexte - Francesco Pinzin, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Forward from the Past: 21st century take-away from traditional Romance methods - Fabian Zuk, Université de Montréal, Université de Lyon 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Using Diachronic Distributional Models to Study Semantic Variation in Spanish Idioms - Gabriela O'Connor, University of Texas at Austin [Austin] 15:30-16:00 (30min)

16:00 - 16:30 (30min)

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:30 (2h)

Syntax

Room 3.05

Chair: Judy Bernstein

› Nominal placeholders in South American Spanish varieties: the case of Rioplatense 'coso' and Chilean 'este' - Carlos Muñoz Pérez, Universidad Austral de Chile 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› Person effects in null / pronominal subject alternation in Romanian: a corpus study - Fabian Istrate, Université Paris Cité - UFR Linguistique [Sociétés et Humanités] 17:00-17:30 (30min)

› On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects: Evidence from Romance infinitives - Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro, National Taiwan Normal University 17:30-18:00 (30min)

› Two Is Better Than One: A Number Mismatch with Deficient Implicit Arguments - John David Storment, Stony Brook University 18:00-18:30 (30min)

16:30 - 18:00 (1h30)

Bilingualism and language contact

Auditorium

Chair: Mihaela Pirvulescu

› A sociolinguistic approach to bilingual adaptations: Patterns of variation in bidialectal Italian communities - Camilla Masullo, Universitat Rovira i Virgili 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› Nominal constructions in (non-)standard Brazilian Portuguese: A case of contact? But with which languages? - Ruth Lopes, Universidade Estadual de Campinas/CNPq 17:00-17:30 (30min)

› Socio-economic Status and Prestige as Determinants of English use in the Linguistic Landscape of the U.S. – Mexican Border - Natalia Mazzaro, University of Texas At El Paso - Natalia Minjarez Oppenheimer, University of Texas At El Paso 17:30-18:00 (30min)

16:30 - 18:00 (1h30)

Phonology / Morphology

Room 3.12

Chair: Francesc Torres-Tamarit

› The productivity of velar stop epenthesis in Spanish verbs - Maria Elizabeth Garza, State University of New York at Stony Brook 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› Indefinite articles at Phonology/ Morphosyntax interface in Mississippi French creole language - Michela Russo, UMR 7023 CNRS SFL/U. Paris 8 & UJML 3 17:00-17:30 (30min)

18:30 - 19:00 (30min)

Concluding Remarks