GOING  ROMANCE  31

Bucharest, 7-9 December 2017Amfiteatrul Odobescu

Going Romance 31, Bucharest Location: Faculty of Letters (5-7, Edgar Quinet)

Room: Amfiteatrul Odobescu (ground floor)

PROGRAMME

Thursday, December 7

8.20-9.00 Registration

9.00-9.10 Welcome address

MAIN SESSION

Chair: Irina Nicula

9.10-10.10 Invited speaker

Donca Steriade, Cyclic and pseudo-cyclic evaluations: evidence from Romanian

Chair: Adam Ledgeway

10.10-10.45 Michelle Sheehan & Sonia Cyrino, Why do some ECM verbs resist

passivisation? A phase-based explanation

10.45-11.20 Ángel Gallego & Maria Bañeras, Case Assignment and Incorporation in Spanish

Impersonal Passives

11.20-11.45 Coffee break

Chair: Luigi Andriani

11.45-12.20 Gabriela Bîlbîie, Experimental and corpus-based approaches to embedded

gapping in Romance

12.20-12.55 Benjamin Storme, A new case of paradigmatic contrast: Haitian Creole third

person pronouns

12.55-13.30 Celina Agostinho & Anna Gavarró, The acquisition of verbal passives by

Portuguese-speaking children: Some data from comprehension

13.30-15.00 Lunch

Chair: Adina Dragomirescu

15.00-15.35 Michelle Sheehan, PCC effects in causatives and ditransitives and the

dative/locative distinction

15.35-16.10 Valentina Colasanti, “Zero > multiple > single”. Complementation from Latin to

Romance

16.10-16.45 María Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia, Transitivity alternation, nontrivial minimal

pairs and a non-minimal variation

16.45-17.10 Coffee break

17.10-18.30 POSTER SESSION (1st floor, Department of Linguistics)

Pascal Amsili & Claire Beyssade, Some specificities of the n-word plus in

French

Pilar Barbosa, Are “partial control” inflected infinitives obligatorily controlled?

Lorena Castillo Ros, Case Competition under ECM. Evidence from Spanish

dialects

Lorena Castillo Ros & Samanta Planells Medina, On the D/P nature of C in

Romance complementation. A micro-parametric account

Kim Groothuis, The grammaticalization of irrealis subordinating particles in

Romanian, Salentino and Calabrese: a case of downwards

grammaticalization?

Bradley Hoot & Shane Ebert, The that-trace effect and the status of Spanish

subjects: Evidence from code-switching

Bradley Hoot & Tania Leal, Information Focus in Monolingual and Bilingual

Yucatec Spanish: Processing Evidence

Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Negative Preposing as a root/non-root

phenomenon: the Spanish conspiracy

Andreea-Alexandra Loizo, An OT account of variation in Romanian consonant

clusters and sequences

Anna Paradís, On the non-restructuring nature of Clitic Climbing: Evidence

from Catalan

Edward J. Rubin, Clitic-doubling with Type 3 Psych-Verbs in Bulgnaiṡ

Elena Soare, Moving towards an event: the Romanian Prepositional Supine

construction

Ramona Wallner, French wh-in-situ questions have to be prosodically minimal,

not given

19.00 – Cocktail (Capitol Restaurant)

Friday, December 8

MAIN SESSION

Chair: Alexandru Nicolae

9.00-10.00 Invited speaker

Adam Ledgeway, Indirect object passives in southern Italy

10.00-10.35 Francesca Ramaglia, Information Structure, copular constructions and there-

sentences: exploring patterns of microvariation in Romance languages

10.35-11.10 Mara Frascarelli, Romance pro-drop languages at the interfaces: A comparative

analysis

11.10-11.35 Coffee break

Chair: Rodica Zafiu

11.35-12.10 Guido Mensching & Franziska Werner, On another apparent violation of the

subject-island constraint in French

12.10-12.45 Carlos Muñoz Pérez, Predicate doubling in Spanish: an analysis based on

informational structure

12.45-13.20 Ion Giurgea, Verum focus and Romanian polar questions

13.20-14.50 Lunch

Chair: Donca Steriade

14.50-15.25 Monica Alexandrina Irimia, Decomposing DOM

15.25-16.00 Alexandra Cornilescu & Alina Tigău, On the competition between Differentially

Object Marked Direct Objects and Indirect Objects in Romanian

16.00-16.35 Kenyon Branan, Determining what gets in the way

16.35-17.00 Coffee break

Chair: Ionuț Geană

17.00-17.35 Caterina Bonan, Low WhPs and the Internal Structure of Wh-Words

17.35-18.10 Gabriel Martínez Vera, On wh-extraction in de+que constructions in Spanish

18.10-18.45 Luigi Andriani, Morphological syncretisms as triggers for the spread of inflected

forms in Apulo-Barese aspectual periphrases

19.30- Conference dinner

Saturday, December 9

MAIN SESSION

Chair: Andra Vasilescu

10.00-10.35 Grant Armstrong, Inalienable possession with and without reflexive clitics: a

split analysis

10.35-11.10 Klaus von Heusinger & Alina Tigău, Dative clitics in Romanian Ditransitives

11.10-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-12.05 M. Pilar Colomina Samitier, Clitic Splitting: a Case Study in Romance

12.05-12.40 Alejo Alcaraz, Deep and Surface Clitics

12.40-14.00 Lunch

WORKSHOP

Substratum and adstratum in the development of Romance morphosyntax

Convenors: Adam Ledgeway, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae

14.00-14.05 Introduction

14.05-14.40 Cristina Guardiano, Dimitris Michelioudakis, Guido Cordoni, Giuseppe

Longobardi, Deep and spurious parallels through the lens of parametric

comparison

14.40-15.15 Alice Corr, Distance-distributive numeral reduplication in Old Ibero-Romance:

a contact hypothesis

15.15-15.40 Coffee break

15.40-16.15 Andra Vasilescu, The Romanian Case: syntactic vs. pragmatic passive

16.15-16.50 Robert Laub, The effects of language ecology on syntactic structure: A look at

Kristang and Makista

17.00-18.00 City walk

First alternate:

Elena Soare – Moving towards an event: the Romanian Prepositional Supine construction

Second alternate:

Kim Groothuis – The grammaticalization of irrealis subordinating particles in Romanian,

Salentino and Calabrese: a case of downwards grammaticalization?

Third alternate:

Lorena Castillo Ros – Case Competition under ECM. Evidence from Spanish dialects