Conference

Going Romance

Date: Thursday 28 November 2019 - Friday 29 November 2019
Location: University Library
Witte Singel 27
2311 BG Leiden
Room: Vossius room, second floor

Going Romance 2019 takes place at the Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL) on November 28-29, 2019.

Invited speakers

Heather Burnett (CNRS – UMR 7110, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7)
João Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Caterina Donati (CNRS – UMR 7110, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7)

Registration

Please register for the conference and the conference dinner before 15 November via the following payment link. If you register, you will receive a second registration form by mail in which you can specify dietary restrictions (among other things). These forms will be sent mid-November.

Main session, November 28-29

The scope of the conference series lies at the intersection of linguistic theory with data from the Romance languages. Beyond this general tenet, there are no specific requirements as to the topic, the subdiscipline, the approach or the methodology, as long as it is clear how the Romance data contribute to linguistic theories of human language (http://going-romance.wp.hum.uu.nl).

Special session 'Gender in Romance', November 29, 14.00-17.30h.

This workshop aims at a discussion of various aspects of gender in Romance, including but not limited to the following topics:

Social meaning of gender and gender conflicts
Syntax and semantics of gender and gender agreement
Gender and linguistic variation (geographical, historical, social)
Gender and first and second language acquisition
Gender in bi/multilingual scenarios
Psycholinguistic aspects of gender

Programme

Thursday 28 November

8:30-9:00

Registration

9:00-9:15

Opening

9:15-10:15

Keynote: João Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Can linguists help educators?

10:15-10:50

Jan Casalicchio (University of Palermo) &
Alberto Frasson (Utrecht University)
The syntax of spatial anchoring:
logophoricity in a heritage Italo-Romance variety

10:50-11:10

BREAK

11:10-11:45

Vicky Leonetti Escandell (Universidad Complutense Madrid),
Jacopo Torregrossa, (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) &
Maria Andreou (Universität zu Köln)
The interpretation of null subjects in Italian, Greek and Spanish:
a variegated picture

11:45-12:20

Lucia Donatelli (Saarland University)
It’s all in the syntax: closest conjunct agreement in Spanish

12:20-12:55

Michelle Troberg (University of Toronto Mississauga)
Verb particles in Old French: a syntactic account

12:55-13:50

LUNCH (Wijkplaats, coffee room groundfloor)

13:50-14:25

Lorena Castillo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Case competition under ECM: evidence from Spanish dialects

14:25-15:00

Nicoletta Loccioni (UCLA)
A superlative argument in favor of a semantic account
of connectivity sentences

15:15-16:45

Posters (KOG room B017)

Aliza Glasbergen-Plas (Leiden University)
How context affects intervention effects in French wh-in-situ questions

Muriel Assmann (University of Vienna)
Interpreting the ordering effects of CTs and Fs in Brazilian Portuguese

Sebastian Buchczyk & Ingo Feldhausen
(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Revisiting obviation experimentally:
On the weakening of the subjunctive disjoint reference effect in French

Brechje van Os, Aafke Hulk, Petra Sleeman & Suzanne Aalberse
(University of Amsterdam)
The Interface Hypothesis: representation, processing, or both?
A study on heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands and in the US

Elena Callegari & Riccardo Pulicani (University of Oslo)
Topicalized PPs: Movement or External Merge?

Julio Villa-Garcia (University of Manchester) &
Dennis Ott (University of Ottawa)
A biclausal analysis of recomplementation

Gustavo Guajardo (University of Tromsø)
A Multi-Model Analysis of variation:
How many subjunctives are there in Spanish?

Alexandra Fiéis, Ana Madeira, & Joana Teixeira, (NOVA FCSH / CLUNL)
Anaphora resolution in L1 and L2 European Portuguese:
does animacy matter?

Sonia Cyrino & Monica Alexandrina Irimia (University of Campinas)
Differential object marking: the case of Brazilian Portuguese

Edoardo Cavirani (KULeuven) & Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam)
The phonological perception of voicing assimilation in Emilian dialects

16:45-17:45

Keynote (KOG roomB031): Caterina Donati
(CNRS – UMR 7110, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7)
The extent of language co-activation in bilingualism:
The case of Romance bimodal bilinguals

19:00

Dinner at Koetshuis de Burcht

	Friday 29 November
9:15-9:50	Anna Kocher (Universität Wien) Three shades of sim: affirmation, verum, and counter-assertion
9:50-10:25	Lorena Castillo & Pilar Colomina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) VSO order in Romance: a Labeling Theory approach
10:25-10:50	BREAK
10:50-11:25	Josep Ausensi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) & Maria Mangialavori (Conicet) Intransitivity and causation in the division between English vs. Romance
11:25-12:00	Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) Deontic periphrastic constructions and defective paradigms in the Sicilian dialects
12:00-14:00	LUNCH + POSTERS (Van Wijkplaats, coffee room groundfloor)
	Alexandru Nicolae (Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti Institute of Linguistics/ University of Bucharest) Solving a puzzle: discontinuous DPs and the syntax of definiteness in (old) Romanian
	Steffen Heidinger & Edgar Onea (University of Graz) The accessoriness hierarchy and focus affinity in Spanish
	Kim Groothuis (University of Cambridge) The fine structure of the Sardinian inflected infinitival clause: verb movement and word order patterns
	Lorena Núñez Pinero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) & Jelke Bloem (University of Amsterdam) Parenthetical optatives (God keep them safe!) exist!
	Marco Bril & Andrea Roijen (Utrecht University) The effects of syntactic complexity and working memory capacity on gender processing in L2 French: a self-paced reading experiment
	Matthew Burner (University of Wisconsin, Madison) The Mass/Count distinction: a lexically decomposed approach to mass neuter in Central Asturian
	Federica Breimaier (University of Zürich) Is the neuter gender class really stable in Macerata? A comparison between crowdsourced and fieldwork data
	Torregrossa, Jacopo (University of Frankfurt), Maria Andreou & Christiane Bongartz (University of Cologne) Gender agreement in Greek in the production of Greek-Italian bilingual children: a task effect?
	Alexandra Lawn & Jesse Harris (UCLA) Not all cues are equal: retrieving gender and number in Brazilian Portuguese sluiced sentences
	Special Session: Gender in Romance
14:00-14:35	Lucie Janků & Michal Starke (Masaryk University, Brno) Class meets gender in Italian and Spanish: a nanosyntactic account
14:35-15:10	Whitney Chappell (The University of Texas at San Antonio) Mexican Spanish speakers perceive hyperarticulated [v] differently in male and female voices
15:10-15:45	Thom Westveer (University of Amsterdam), Emma Zanoli, Giuliana Giusti (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) & Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam) On a structural difference between quantified and superlative partitives: evidence from French and Italian grammaticality judgements on gender agreement
15:45-16:15	BREAK
16:15-17:15	Keynote: Heather Burnett (CNRS – UMR 7110, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7) Understanding gender bias in French pronoun production using formal semantics, computational psycholinguistics, and feminism
17:30	Drinks at LUCL Wijkplaats 4, 2nd floor