The forty-fifth Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminar will be held at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, on 5 and 6 January 2017. The programme for the event is given below, and you can also view abstracts for the talks.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 5 January
1200 Bar opens for drinks and sandwiches
1400 Michael Arrigo (Berkeley). On one condition: the integration of the press conditional in Spanish journalistic discourse
1430 Brittany Hause (Oxford). Diminutives and augmentatives in cruceño Spanish
1500 Thomas Rainsford (Stuttgart). De- prefixation and spatial expressions in medieval French
1530 Marc-Olivier Hinzelin (Hamburg). Contact-induced change in Francoprovençal phonology
1600 Business meeting, followed by free time for tea, visits to bookshops, etc.
1730 Sam Wolfe (Oxford). Towards a new account of old Gallo-Romance word order.
1800 Adam Ledgeway, Norma Schifano, Giuseppina Silvestri (Cambridge). Greek-style genitive and differential object marking: mapping correlations in southern Calabria
1830 Luigi Andriani (Cambridge). The spread of inflected forms in Apulian progressive and andative periphrases
1900 Drinks
1930 Dinner, followed by
2115 Gabriela Pană Dindelegan (București). Grammaire des noms animés en roumain
Friday 6 January
0900 Alice Corr (Cambridge). The grammar of Spanish and Romanian discourse particles: a comparative view
0930 Roisin Huggins (Oxford). A comparative study of postverbal negation in Romance
1000 Marios Mavrogiorgos (Cambridge). Aromanian reflexive possessors
1030 Coffee
1100 Alex Nicolae (București). Grammaticalization as pattern formation: a case study of Romanian and Romance auxiliaries
1130 Adina Dragomirescu (București). Language contact and the head-final word order: The view from Old Romanian
1200 Valentina Colasanti (Cambridge). Feature reassignment and microparametric change in Italo-Romance
1230 Bar opens
1300 Lunch