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)
