Going Romance 34 - Main session programme

Birgit Alber (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)

Typology and language change - the case of truncation

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Café | Break

Catalina Torres (U. Melbourne)    
When pitch accents are also boundary tones: insights from French intonational phonology (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Elena Soare (U. Paris-8) & Isabelle Roy (U. Nantes/LLING)
Arguments and modifiers in deverbal nominals: Romanian genitives and de-PPs (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Chao Zhou (U. Lisbon) & Silke Hamann (U. Amsterdam)  
Formalizing the mismatch between L2 perception and production of European Portuguese liquids by L1 Mandarin learners (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Suzana Fong (MIT)
Distinguishing between explanatory accounts of the A/A'-distinction: the view from Argentinian Spanish Clitic Doubling (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Benjamin Storme (U. de Lausanne)    
Deriving the gradient behavior of French liaison through constraint interaction  (diapos | slides) (résumé | abstract)

Marcin Wągiel (Masaryk University in Brno)    
Parts, wholes and clusters: Italian irregular plurals and a unified notion of parthood (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Eirini Apostolopoulou (U. Verona & U. Tromsoe)    
Where r you going? A typology of long-distance metathesis of liquids (exemplier | handout)  (résumé | abstract)

Aurore Gonzalez (Harvard U.) & Justin Royer (McGill U.)
"Expletive negation" as a decomposed NPI in Québec French (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

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Tobias Scheer (U. Côte d’Azur) &
Philippe Ségéral (Saint-Germain-Village)
French diachronics: what left-moving yod tells us about s+C
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Pierre Larrivée  (U. de Caen Normandie & CRISCO)    
Remnant V2 is sensitive to register (Medieval French)
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Heglyn Pimenta (U. de Tours)    
What’s the matter with |I| |U|? On element asymmetry in Portuguese
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Wyn Shaw (U. Oxford)    
Old French Si: Syntax and Function in Diachrony
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Présentations éclair | Lightning talks Phonologie

Présentations éclair | Lightning talks Syntaxe & sémantique

Mathilde Hutin¹, Yaru Wu¹, Nori Kondo², Samantha Ruvoletto³, Ioana Vasilescu¹, Lori Lamel¹ & Martine Adda-Decker^1,4
(1)U. Paris-Saclay, CNRS, UPR 3251 LIMSI, ⁽²⁾Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Japon, ⁽³⁾U. de Lorraine, CNRS / UL, UMR 7118 ATILF, ⁽⁴⁾U. Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, CNRS, UMR 7018, LPP
Variabilité de la liaison facultative en français standard   (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (résumé | abstract)

Joachim Kokkelmans (Free U. of Bozen-Bolzano) At the intersection of French and Flemish: Implicational hierarchies in Brussels French loan (non-)adaptation as a window on French phonology and/or universal markedness (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (poster) (résumé | abstract)

Andrea Pešková (U. Osnabrück) Towards the Developmental L2 Intonation hypothesis: Evidence from L2 Italian and L2 Spanish
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Ivaylo Burov (U. Sofia) La Théorie de la binarité relative des traits : une nouvelle alternative pour la représentation formelle de la diphtongaison métaphonique dans les langues romanes
(présentation éclair | lightning talk) (poster) (résumé | abstract)

Semantics

Ana Aguilar-Guevara & Mayra Gabriela García Rodríguez (National Autonomous University of Mexico - UNAM) Spanish "lo": reference to and via properties (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (diapos | slides) (résumé | abstract)

Luis Alonso-Ovalle (McGill U.) & Elizabeth Heredia Murillo (U. Nantes & U. Groningen) Concessive Scalar Items: More about Siquiera in Spanish (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (diapos | slides) (résumé | abstract)

Barbara Schirakowski (FU Berlin) Satellite-framing in French. A case study on the lexicalization of MANNER and RESULT in creation events (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (poster) (résumé | abstract)

Syntax

Stefania Costea (U. Cambridge) (présentation éclair | lightning talk) The syntax of Daco-Romance prenominal possessives: a minimalist account (Poster Special Session Preposition-Determiner-Interactions (diapos | slides - extended slides) (résumé | abstract)

Javier Fernandez-Sánchez (U. of Gdansk) & Alfredo García-Pardo (Purchase College) Evidentiality and the left periphery: Invariable que-questions in Spanish (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (poster) (résumé | abstract)

Makoto Kaneko (Aoyama Gakuin U., Japan) Implicit exemption from obviation in a French infinitive purpose clause (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (diapos | slides) (résumé | abstract)

Erin Mauffray (UC Los Angeles) Postverbal subjects in Heritage/L2 Spanish: Assessing effects of unaccusativity and adjunct placement (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (poster) (résumé | abstract)

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Haike Jacobs (Radboud U.)    
Iambic shortening revisited (exemplier | handout)  (résumé | abstract)

Paolo Lorusso (IUSS, Pavia) & Ludovico Franco (U. Firenze)
Pseudo-coordinate constructions with ‘take’ in Apulian varieties.  (exemplier | handout)  (résumé | abstract)

Annie Helms (UC Berkeley)    
Bay Area Spanish: regional sound change in contact languages
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Aixiu An & Anne Abeille (LLF, U. de Paris)    
Gender agreement with coordinated nouns: has French masculine been overrated? (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Anna Gazdik (Johannes-Gutenberg U., Mainz)    
The prosody of Spanish ¿no?-tags from a pragmatic perspective
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Kryzzya Gomez (LLING-UMR 6310, CNRS/ U. Nantes)   
Syntactic and semantic properties of null vs. overt subjects: Evidence from Colombian Spanish (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Edward Rubin (U. Utah)    
PCC Effects with Expletives and Non-Associate Post-Verbal Subjects in Bolognese (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Discussion of talks & coffee

Anna Gavarró (UA Barcelona)

Incursions in infant and child grammar  

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Café

Valentina Bianchi (U. Siena) & Silvio Cruschina (U. Helsinki)
On two discourse particles in (central) Sicilian polar questions  (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Beatriz Gómez-Vidal¹, Miren Arantzeta¹,  Jon Paul Laka², Itziar Laka¹, (¹U. del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, UPV/EHU & ²U. Deusto)
Eye-tracking the Unaccusative Hypothesis in Spanish  (résumé | abstract) (vidéo | video)

Sebastian Buchczyk¹ & Ingo Feldhausen^{2 (1}U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona; ²ATILF-CNRS & U. de Lorraine, Nancy)
Testing the reliability of acceptability judgments for subjunctive obviation in French  (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Camilla Gallina & Emanuela Sanfelici (U. Padua)
The acquisition of Italian prepositions: a study on children's early spontaneous speech (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Déjeuner

Borja Herce (U. Zurich)
Romance rhizotony and perfective stems: Morphological biases and predictability (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Itamar Kastner (U. Edinburgh) & Fabienne Martin (HU Berlin)
Dissolving the French conjugation classes (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Présentations éclair / Lightning talks

Adolfo Ausín (Michigan State U.) & Francisco J. Fernández-Rubiera (U. Central Florida)
Bantu arguments for the decompositional analysis of dative clitics in Spanish (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (diapos | slides)  (résumé | abstract) (poster) (paper draft)

Bridget Copley¹, Marta Donazzan² & Clémentine Raffy³ (¹SFL/U. Paris8, ²LLING/U. Nantes, ³U. Cologne) Characterizing French LAISSER using causal functions and scales (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (poster) (résumé | abstract)

Alice Corr (U. Birmingham) Nominals and the grammar-discourse interface: address inversion in Italo-Romance (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (diapos | slides) (résumé | abstract)

Simone De Cia (U. Manchester) Covert Topicalisation and Object-Past Participle Agreement: The Case of Friulian (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (diapos | slides) (résumé | abstract)

Javier Fernández-Sánchez (U. Gdansk) Exophoric ellipsis meets extraction: the case of modal ellipsis  (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (poster) (résumé | abstract)

Alfredo Garcia-Pardo (Purchase College) Stative passive nominals. A view from Spanish (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (poster) (résumé | abstract)

Simone Guesser (Federal U. of Roraima/ Federal U. of Southern Frontier), Lorrane Medeiros (Federal U. of Rio de Janeiro), Flore Kédochim (Federal U. of Roraima) & Raquel Sousa (State U. of Campinas)  An eye-tracking study on the syntax of post-verbal 'why' in Brazilian Portuguese (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (poster) (résumé | abstract)

Monica Irimia (U. Modena and Reggio Emilia) DOM under asymmetric coordination in Romanian: a diagnostic for the in-situ hypothesis?  (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (résumé | abstract)

Giada Palmieri (U. Utrecht) & Renato Miguel Basso (Federal U. of São Carlos) (présentation éclair/ lightning talk)
Reflexive and reciprocal interpretations of se-clauses in Brazilian Portuguese  (résumé | abstract) (poster)

Pause Café

Katie VanDyne (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Optionality in Spanish clitic positions: Observations from control (exemplier | handout) (vidéo | video) (résumé | abstract)

Naomi Kurtz (U. Chicago)
Persons and Pronouns: Clitics in Judeo-Spanish (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Gustavo Guajardo (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Not All Clitics are Made the Same: Defective Agreement in Spanish Dative Clitic-Doubling (exemplier | handout) (résumé | abstract)

Irene Amato (U. Leipzig)
Auxiliary selection is person Agree: splits in Italian and in Italo-Romance varieties (diapos | slides) (résumé | abstract)

Closing

Adolfo Ausín (Michigan State U.) & Francisco J. Fernández-Rubiera (U. Central Florida)
Bantu arguments for the decompositional analysis of dative clitics in Spanish  (résumé | abstract)

Suzana Fong (MIT) Distinguishing between explanatory accounts of the A/A'-distinction: the view from Argentinian Spanish Clitic Doubling (présentation éclair | lightning talk) (diapos | slides) (résumé | abstract)

Erin Mauffray (UC Los Angeles)
Postverbal subjects in Heritage/L2 Spanish: Assessing effects of unaccusativity and adjunct placement  (résumé | abstract)

Ivaylo BUROV (U. Sofia) La Théorie de la binarité relative des traits : une nouvelle alternative pour la représentation formelle de la diphtongaison métaphonique dans les langues romanes (résumé | abstract)