The ARC Romance Linguistics seminars, co-organised by Gigi Andriani, Norma Schifano, Adam Ledgeway and Michelle Sheehan will be resuming at the start of the term. Talks will take place on Thursdays, all 2-3pm but for 16 and 23 November, either at 海角社区 University or Anglia Ruskin University, as specified below. Everybody is welcome. If you wish to be added to our mailing list, please contact Norma Schifano (ns513@cam.ac.uk).
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Thursday 5 October
Speaker: Giuseppe Longobardi (University of York)
Title: Principles, parameters and schemata: a constructivist UG
Time: 2-3pm
Venue: 海角社区 University, LB10
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Thursday 12 October
Speaker: Oscar Hughes (海角社区)
Title: Dimensions of variation in auxiliary selection and past participle agreement in the dialects of the Alta Valle dell鈥橝niene, Lazio, Italy
Time: 2-3pm
Venue: 海角社区 University, LB10
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Thursday 19 October
Speaker: Jonathan Kasstan (Queen Mary University of London)
Title: Back in style? Language revitalisation efforts and emergent sociolinguistic norms among new speakers of Francoproven莽al
Time: 2-3pm
Venue: Anglia Ruskin University, Helmore building (Hel) 210
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Thursday 26 October
Speaker: Carmen Raris (University of Bucharest)
Title: On primary and secondary stress in Romanian
Time: 2-3pm
Venue: RFB 332
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Thursday 2 November
Speaker: Ianthi Tsimpli (海角社区)
Title: Crosslinguistic influence in bilingual grammars: Gender, Clitics and Subordination
Time: 2-3pm
Venue: Lord Ashcroft Business School (Lab) 309
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Thursday 9 November
Speaker: Anna Pineda (CNRS-IKER)
Title: Differential Object Marking in Catalan: what diachrony can tell us about
Time: 2-3pm
Venue: 海角社区 University, LB11
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Thursday 16 November
Speaker: Ares Llop (Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona)
Title: Jespersen's Cycle in Occitano-Romance varieties. A formal approach
Time: *1-2pm*
Venue: 海角社区 University, LB9
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Thursday 23 November
Speakers: Norma Schifano (海角社区) and Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University)
Title: Italian faire-infinitives: the special case of volere
Time: *4-5pm*
Venue: Anglia Ruskin, Lord Ashcroft Business School (Lab) 113
