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9:15 - 9:30 (15min)
Arrival for WORKSHOP 1
Bus arrival, registration & coffee
9:30 - 9:45 (15min)
Welcome message by MSH & the organizers
Welcome Message
9:45 - 10:45 (1h)
Keynote 1: Etienne Ollion, Title TBA
Etienne Ollion
10:45 - 11:00 (15min)
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 (1h)
Keynote 2: Jane Stuart Smith, Title TBA
Jane Stuart Smith
12:00 - 13:00 (1h)
Workshop 1: opening session
Paola Tubaro & Yaru Wu; Oana Niculescu
13:00 - 14:00 (1h)
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 (1h)
Workshop 1: Romance languages in a rapidly changing world
› Shared Romance features a product of contact-induced language change? Roman republican colonization and language contact in the ancient Italian peninsula
- William Balla-Johnson, N/A
14:00-14:30 (30min)
› Auxiliary selection and past participle agreement in the Griko periphrastic perfect: a (micro)diachronic and diatopic study of a Greek variety in contact with Italo-Romance
- Emanuela Pinna, Universitat Pompeu Fabra [Barcelona]
14:30-15:00 (30min)
15:00 - 15:30 (30min)
Coffee break
15:30 - 17:30 (2h)
Workshop 1: Romance languages in a rapidly changing world
› Variable articulations of the fricative /ʒ/ in the Poitevin-Saintongeais language of France
- James Law, Brigham Young University - Adam McBride, Brigham Young University
15:30-16:00 (30min)
› Asymmetries in Word-final Schwa Realization in French
- Joshua Griffiths, Northeastern University
16:00-16:30 (30min)
› Auxiliary selection in French and Italian
- Greta Viale, Università degli studi di Verona = University of Verona, Sens, Texte, Informatique, Histoire - Andrea Briglia, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours
16:30-17:00 (30min)
› The A-N vs. N-A asymmetry French adjectives at the Syntax-Phonology interface
- Anna Preßler (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main), Frank Kügler (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main), Fatima Hamlaoui (University of Toronto)
17:00-17:30 (30min)
17:30 - 18:00 (30min)
Final discussion, bus departure
Final Discussion
9:00 - 9:30 (30min)
Registration and Coffee
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
Auditorium
Invited Speaker: Virginia Hill
https://lsrl53.sciencesconf.org/data/program/abstract.pdf 10:45 - 13:00 (2h15)
Syntax
Auditorium
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
Auditorium
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)
› 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
Auditorium
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
Auditorium
9:00 - 9:15 (15min)
Coffee break
9:15 - 10:15 (1h)
Invited Speaker: Elena Castroviejo - Can you confirm my exclamation? An insight into exclamatives from two Catalan tags
Auditorium
Elena Castroviejo
10:15 - 12:30 (2h15)
Semantics / Pragmatics
Auditorium
Chair: Laia Mayol
› Exclamative "Se" Constructions
- Elena Callegari, University of Iceland
10:30-11:00 (30min)
› Predicting mood choice in causative complements in Catalan: A commitment-based approach
- Sebastian Buchczyk, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› Polysemy of Italian altro ‘other' between alternativity and incrementality
- Fabio Del Prete, Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie - Fabio Montermini, Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› Aspecual conditioners on by-phrases in adjectival passives
- Rafael Marin, Université de Lille-STL, Alfredo García-Pardo, Purchase College
12:00-12:30 (30min)
10:15 - 12:30 (2h15)
Bilingualism - Heritage - Acquisition
Room 3.12
Chair: Elena Soare
› Semantic features processing by monolingual and bilingual speakers
- Francesco Romano, Halmstad University - Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Universitat de les Illes Balears
10:30-11:00 (30min)
› Processing Spanish Copulas: Evidence from the Visual World Paradigm
- Rafael MARIN, Université de Lille-STL
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› Null/ overt subject realization in Spanish heritage and L2 children
- Ana Fernández-Dobao, University of Washington - Julia Herschensohn, University of Washington
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› Bilingual Knowledge of Resultatives: A Study of Spanish Heritiage Speakers
- Martine Gallardo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:00-12:30 (30min)
10:15 - 12:30 (2h15)
Socio-phonetics
Room 3.05
Chair : Alexander Martin
› Social and linguistic correlates of assibilation and affrication of coronal plosives in a corpus of urban youth vernacular
- Fagyal Zsuzsanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Urbana] - Scarlet Peterson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Urbana]
10:30-11:00 (30min)
› Effects of Social Factors on Phonetic Convergence in Language Alternation
- Ernesto Gutierrez Topete, University of California, Berkeley
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› What does your accent say about you? An Analysis of Cuban and Peninsular Spanish Varieties
- Gabriela Martinez Loyola, Western University
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› Pitch range and perception of politeness in Peninsular Spanish requests
- Bruno Staszkiewicz Garcia, Purdue University
12:00-12:30 (30min)
12:30 - 13:45 (1h15)
Lunch
13:45 - 15:45 (2h)
Phonology
Room 3.12
Chair: Michela Russo
› Stress in Spanish: an analysis using layered feet
- Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
13:45-14:15 (30min)
› On the Metrical Structure of Spanish Language Games (UPDATED)
- Felix Fonseca-Quesada, Stony Brook University
14:15-14:45 (30min)
› Integrating phonological and non-phonological factors for a comprehensive model of liaison realization
- Joshua Griffiths, Northeastern University - Bernard Laks, Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus
14:45-15:15 (30min)
› An optimality theoretic approach to diphthongization in Rio de Janeiro: The case of stressed word-final syllables
- Adam Marquez, The University of Arizona
15:15-15:45 (30min)
13:45 - 16:15 (2h30)
Syntax
Auditorium
Chair: Virginia Hill
› Differential object marking makes Spanish object relative clauses easier
- Giacomo Presotto, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
13:45-14:15 (30min)
› Differential object marking makes Spanish object relative clauses easier
- Giacomo Presotto, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
13:45-14:15 (30min)
› Examining the predictive role of Differential Object Marking in Spanish-Catalan bilinguals
- Rut Benito, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Aurora Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
14:15-14:45 (30min)
› Co-occurrence restrictions and DOM: the view from Ragusa
- Monica Alexandrina Irimia, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
14:45-15:15 (30min)
› DOM and intervention effects in Romanian ditransitives
- Alina Tigau, University of Bucharest
15:15-15:45 (30min)
› Projecting the external argument in Spanish passives
- Alfredo García Pardo, Purchase College
15:45-16:15 (30min)
13:45 - 16:15 (2h30)
Diachrony
Room 3.05
Chair: Anne Abeillé
› Apprehension in Romance: Bouletic and Epistemic Modality in Portuguese and Italian
- Fabio Del Prete, Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie
13:45-14:15 (30min)
› The clausal architecture of Old French infinitival clauses
- Marc Olivier, University of Oxford
14:15-14:45 (30min)
› On documenting language change as it happens: The periphrastic construction “motion verb + a + infinitive” in Italian
- Emanuela Li Destri, Università degli Studi di Udine - University of Udine [Italie]
14:45-15:15 (30min)
› Collocations with tomar ‘take' + nouns of ‘emotion' and Constructional Change in the History of Spanish
- Josep Alba-Salas, College of the Holy Cross
15:15-15:45 (30min)
› An anchoring solution to the loss of preverbal negative concord in Old Spanish
- Aaron Yamada, Creighton University
15:45-16:15 (30min)
16:15 - 16:30 (15min)
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 (1h)
Invited Speaker: Juliette Blevins - The checkered past of Romance syllable onsets: complexity and sonority under scrutiny
Auditorium
Juliette Blevins
17:30 - 18:45 (1h15)
Phonetics / Phonology
Auditorium
Chair: Margaret Renwick
› Testing the Aerodynamic Voicing Constraint using large scale ASR with pronunciation variants: The case of five Romance languages
- Anisia Popescu, Université Paris Saclay
17:45-18:15 (30min)
› C'(es)t un effort : vowel reduction of French /ɛ/ in a formal speaking task
- Adam McBride, Brigham Young University
18:15-18:45 (30min)
17:30 - 19:15 (1h45)
Minority Languages
Room 3.12
Chair: Zsuzsanna Fagyal
› The realization of post-tonic -a in the Occitan of the Azun Valley: influence of the degree of prominence of the previous stress
- Rafèu Sichel-Bazin, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
17:45-18:15 (30min)
› Edition and typological analysis of an oral corpus of “genaillard” (northern Dauphinois) Francoprovençal: an input to the internal classification of a severely endangered
- Antoine Heintzmann, Structures Formelles du Langage
18:15-18:45 (30min)
› Computer modeling of innovations relative to Latin in today's Romance dialects
- Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur [Orsay], Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique
18:45-19:15 (30min)
17:30 - 19:15 (1h45)
Syntax
Room 3.05
Chair: Heather Burnett
› Addressing Romance Vocatives Comparatively
- Judy Bernstein, William Paterson University of New Jersey
17:45-18:15 (30min)
› “Elsa tiene el pelo largo”. Some remarks on the structure [Tener [DP AP]]
- Norberto Moreno-Quibén, Universidad de Alcalá = University of Alcalá - Silvia Gumiel-Molina, Universidad de Alcalá = University of Alcalá - Leticia Desborde, Universidad de Alcalá = University of Alcalá
18:15-18:45 (30min)
› Romanian Definite DPs: a Diachronic view
- Daniela Isac, Concordia University
18:45-19:15 (30min)
19:30 - 22:00 (2h30)
Conference Buffet at Inalco
Auditorium
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
Concluding Remarks
13:45 - 14:00 (15min)
Arrival for WORKSHOP 2
Amphithéâtre Louis Liard, 17 rue de la Sorbonne 75005 Paris
14:00 - 16:45 (2h45)
Workshop 2: Phonetics and phonology in Romance and beyond
› Impacts of structure, usage, and phonetics on Italian mid vowels
- Margaret Renwick, The University of Georgia - (USA)
14:00-14:40 (40min)
› An ultrasound study of cavity expansion during Canadian French voiced obstruents
- Marc Brunelle, University of Ottawa
14:40-15:20 (40min)
› An ‘impossible' opposition: /h/ vs. /h̃/ in North-Eastern Basque
- Ander Egurtzegi, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques
15:20-16:00 (40min)
› Variant patterns of sibilant debuccalization in Camuno: Phonetic and phonological implications of *s > h in Valcamonica
- Juliette Blevins, CUNY Graduate Center - Michela Cresci, Liceo
16:00-16:40 (40min)
16:45 - 17:30 (45min)
WORKSHOP 2: General Discussion
WORKSHOP 2
