Speakers: Giulia Mazzola, Michelle Sheehan, Clementine Raffy, and Liam Garside (Newcastle University) Title: The syntax and semantics of visual and auditory perception in Romance languages Date/time: 14th October, 2-3 pm Abstract Abstract: Wurmbrand and Lohninger (2023), building on Givón (2001),propose a principle of Minimally Required Domains, whereby in order for a syntactic structure to map to a given semantic object, it must be of…

Speaker: Jan Casalicchio (University of Siena) Title: Verb second in main and embedded clauses in Ladin Date and Time: 24th June, 2-3pm Venue: Zoom If you wish to participate please contact the RoLinC organizers here

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…