We are happy to announce the programme of the ‘ARC (Anglia Ruskin – Cambridge) Romance Linguistics Seminars’ for Easter Term 2017, co-organised by Gigi Andriani (University of Cambridge), Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge), Norma Schifano (University of Cambridge) and Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University), to be held at Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin, as specified below.
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PROGRAMME - EASTER TERM 2017
Thursday 27 April
Speaker: Vieri Same-Lodovici (UCL)
Title: The Position of Contrastive Focalization and its Consequences
Time: 11-12
Place: Cambridge University, Lecture Block 9
Thursday 4 May
Speaker: Cameron Taylor
Title: The syntactic behaviour of subjective clauses
Time: 11-12
Place: Cambridge University, Lecture Block 9
Wednesday 10 May
Speaker: Adina Dragomirescu (University of Bucharest, "Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti" Institute of Linguistics)
Title: Issues in the Syntax of Istro-Romanian
Time: 12-1
Place: Cambridge University, Lecture Block 9
Friday 19 May
Speaker: Anna Pineda (CNRS-IKER)
Title: From dative to accusative: an ongoing syntactic change in Romance
Time: 4-5
Place: Anglia Ruskin, Helmore building 305
Thursday 25 May
Speaker: Linda Badan (Ghent University)
Title: Italian discourse markers
Time: 11-12
Place: Cambridge University, Raised Faculty Building 336 (Graduate Seminar Room)
Thursday 1 June
Speaker: Heather Burnett (CNRS, Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot)
Title: Social stratification as pragmatic inference: "Du tout" vs "Pantoute" in Montréal French
Time: 11-12
Place: Anglia Ruskin, Helmore building 115
Thursday 8 June
Speaker: Oliver Mayeux (University of Cambridge)
Title: An endangered French-lexifier creole in contact with French and
English: Preliminary field observations on contact-induced change
Time: 11-12
Place: Anglia Ruskin, Helmore building 208
Wednesday 14 June (*2 speakers*)
Speaker 1: Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge)
Title: (In)Vulnerable inflected infinitives as complements to volitionals and modals: Evidence from Portuguese, Galician and Romeyka
Speaker 2: Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University)
Title: Inflected infinitives in Galician: a quantitative study (joint talk with Jeffrey Blokzijl and M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Leiden
University)
Time: 11-1
Place: Cambridge University, Raised Faculty Building 336 (Graduate Seminar Room)
