Speaker: Veronica Girolami (University of Verona) Title: Combining Unaccusativity Diagnostics in Romance: Preliminary Evidence from Italian and French Place/time: Zoom, 2-3pm More information

Speakers: Lena Baunaz (Université Côte d’Azur) & Anne-Li Demonie (Masaryk University) Title: Is expletive negation a unitary phenomenon? A cross-linguistic investigation of fear vs until-clauses Time: 2-3pm Place: Zoom If you wish to attend this talk, please contact the organizers

Speakers: Cristina Flores and Esther Rinke Title: Overspecification of subjects and underspecification of objects: subject-object asymmetries in heritage Portuguese as a window into divergent diachronic pathways Time: 2-3pm Place: Zoom If you wish to attend please send a message to the organizers

Tomorrow ​(12th November) at 12-1pm (UK time), Kim A. Groothuis (Universiteit Gent) will be giving a talk entitled, Neapolitan chillo at the syntax-discourse-prosody interface.     Abstract: Neapolitan, like other Campanian varieties, features a construction in which the distal demonstrative (chillo, chella, chello ‘that.M/F/N.SG’ < Lat. ECCU + ILLU(M)) is used as an apparent expletive subject, occurring with impersonal predicates, as in (1). Moreover, chillo…

Tomorrow ​(22nd October) at 12-1pm (UK time), Ștefania Costea and Oana Uță-Bărbulescu (University of Oxford) will be giving a talk entitled Notes on the Istro-Romanian nominal domain.     Abstract: Istro-Romanian, one of the four subdivisions of the Daco-Romance branch of the Romance languages, is a severely endangered language spoken in Istria, Croatia. The available grammars (e.g., Pușcariu 1926, Kovačec 1971) and studies of…

Roberta D’Alessandro (ILS, UU) will be giving the next Romance Linguistics Circle talk, entitled Honorificity, phi-agreement and an inside-view on pronouns and referentiality. The case of Italian voi and lei. The talk will take place on the 14th of May at 1pm. Abstract Honorifics are not as widely present in Romance languages as they are in several Asian languages….

On May 7, Xavier Villalba (Autonomous University of Barcelona) will be giving a talk entitled, ​Mirative markers in Romance exclamative sentences.  Abstract: Exclamative sentences in Romance involve a rich set of markers whose syntactic position and semantic/pragmatic meaning is unclear. Consider the markers (mrk) in boldface in the exclamative sentences in (1): (1) a.  Si      (que)…