Presentations
2023
"Morphologie nominale et détermination: quel rôle pour le DE en francoprovençal ?" Conference Par-delà la dialectologie : de l'étude de la variation vers la gestion de la complexité. Centre d'études francoprovençales René Willien, Saint-Nicolas (Aosta Valley), Italy. 14 October Tabea Ihsane & Elisabeth Stark.
"Systems of ‘number marking’ and indefinite determiners in Romance", Deutscher Romanistentag workshop Presence and Absence of Determiners in Romance, University of Leipzig, Germany. 27 September. Tabea Ihsane & Elisabeth Stark.
"Accounting for presence/absence of overt number morphology in Romance nominals", DGfS workshop Divide and Count: on the (Morpho-)Syntax and Semantics of Division, Plurality and Countability, University of Cologne, Germany. 9 March. Tabea Ihsane, David Paul Gerards & Elisabeth Stark.
2022
"On the rescuing of des-NPs", Going Romance 2022, poster presentation, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelone, Barcelona, Spain. 2 December. Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Tabea Ihsane & David Paul Gerards.
"Francoprovençal: what a spatial analysis of ‘partitive articles’ reveals on number marking on nominals", PARTE international conference Methods for approaching variation: partitives and beyond, Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Budapest, Hungary. 16 September. Tabea Ihsane, Olivier Winistörfer & Elisabeth Stark.
"The Partitive Database. Tutorial", PARTE international conference Methods for approaching variation: partitives and beyond, Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Budapest, Hungary. 15 September. Tabea Ihsane.
"Variation dans la détermination nominale en français oral : Fautes ou témoins de contact ?", AFLS Conference 2022, Le français au contact des cultures. University of Exeter, UK. 18 July. Delia Strebel, Tabea Ihsane & Elisabeth Stark.
"On the rescuing of des-indefinites", Workshop 'Partitive Articles' in Francoprovençal and in the Northern Italian Dialects: DiFuPaRo closing workshop. University of Zurich, Switzerland. 24 June. Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Tabea Ihsane & David Paul Gerards.
"Francoprovençal nominal morphology: a Network Morphology account", Workshop 'Partitive Articles' in Francoprovençal and in the Northern Italian Dialects: DiFuPaRo closing workshop. University of Zurich, Switzerland. 24 June. Tania Paciaroni, Tabea Ihsane & Elisabeth Stark.
"Francoprovençal: what a spatial analysis of 'partitive articles' reveals on number marking on nominals", Workshop 'Partitive Articles' in Francoprovençal and in the Northern Italian Dialects: DiFuPaRo closing workshop. University of Zurich, Switzerland. 24 June. Tabea Ihsane, Olivier Winistörfer & Elisabeth Stark.
"Is invariable DE an allomorph of the partitive article? The insight from Francoprovençal", Workshop 'Partitive Articles' in Francoprovençal and in the Northern Italian Dialects: DiFuPaRo closing workshop. University of Zurich, Switzerland. 24 June. David Paul Gerards, Tabea Ihsane & Elisabeth Stark.
"The distribution of partitive articles in quantity expressions and negative sentences with pas 'not' in colloquial Swiss French and neighboring Francoprovençal varieties", VI Wedisyn Meeting - Westmost Europe Dialect Syntax. University of Zurich, Switzerland. 3 June. Delia Strebel, Tabea Ihsane & Elisabeth Stark.
Invited talk. "The spatial distribution of partitive articles and invariable DE in Francoprovençal", PARTE (Partitivity in European Languages) online talks. 27 May. Tabea Ihsane, Olivier Winistörfer & Elisabeth Stark.
"On the status of preverbal indefinite subjects in Romance languages: what Francoprovençal reveals", Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), University of Wisconsin-Madison (Zoom). April 21. Tabea Ihsane.
2021
"The L2 acquisition of the French pronoun en by L1 speakers of German", Workshop for Thom Westveer. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 6 October. Tabea Ihsane.
"Investigating Indefinite Definites: Empirical Approaches", IDARoE – Indefinite definite articles in Romance and English. 16 July 2021. David Paul Gerards (University of Leipzig) & Tabea Ihsane (University of Zurich).
Invited talk. "The role of L1 in the L2 acquisition of the French pronoun en by L1 speakers of German and L1 speakers of Dutch", Annual Conference of the English Department (AICED22), Theoretical Linguistics. University of Bucharest, Romania. 3 June. Tabea Ihsane.
2020
"Partitive articles in preverbal subjects: contrasting French and Aosta Valley Francoprovençal", Workshop Variation in the Expression of Partitivity and Partitive Expressions. 14th International Conference of General Linguistics (CILG2020). University of Sevilla, Spain. Postponed to June 2021. Cancelled (Covid). Tabea Ihsane.
"Preverbal subjects with a partitive article in French and their Francoprovençal counterparts", Symposium Subjects in Romance. University of Stockholm (Sweden). Postponed to 2021. Cancelled (Covid). Tabea Ihsane & Jan Davatz.
"Fieldwork in Evolène: Preliminary results of the Grammaticality Judgement Test", DiFuPaRo Workshop, online, 11 June. Tabea Ihsane.
"Francoprovençal at the Crossroads", Project Presentations URPP Language and Space, Language and Space in Switzerland. 5 March. Jan Davatz & Tabea Ihsane.
2019
"The status of preverbal subjects in French and Francoprovençal", Workshop Around Partitive Articles (Workshop of the DiFuPaRo Project), University Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 5 November. Tabea Ihsane.
"Adverbs and Auxiliaries in English: Variation and (Absence of) Change", IWSC2019, Bejing Language and Culture University, China, 27 October. Eric Haeberli & Tabea Ihsane.
Invited talk. "Arguments with a so-called 'partitive article': The subject-object asymmetry in the light of Francoprovençal data", Workshop The syntax and semantics of internal arguments. University of Bucharest, Romania, 24 October. Tabea Ihsane.
"DiFuPaRo Database: Opening the frontend", PARTE workshop. Partitive case, pronouns and determiners: diachrony and variation, University of Pavia, Italy, 3 September. Jan Davatz, Tabea Ihsane, Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto & Elisabeth Stark.
"(Micro-) variation in the distribution of the partitive pronoun in Romance and Germanic", PARTE workshop. Partitive case, pronouns and determiners: diachrony and variation, University of Pavia, Italy, 2 September. Petra Sleeman, Leonie Cornips, Tabea Ihsane & Giuliana Giusti.
"Features and contexts of partitive pronouns: a cross-linguistic comparison", PARTE workshop. Partitivity in European Languages, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 26 January. Giuliana Giusti, Elvira Glaser, Tabea Ihsane, Petra Sleeman & Thomas Strobel.
2018
"Presenting DiFuPaRo: "Distribution and Function of 'Partitive Articles' in Romance: A microvariation analysis"", 10th Day of Swiss Linguistics, University of Bern, 12 October 2018. Ihsane, Tabea & Elisabeth Stark.
"Preverbal subjects with a partitive article: the case of Francoprovençal in the Aosta Valley", SLE 2018, University of Tallinn, Estonia, August 2018. Tabea Ihsane.
"Regional variation in the standard language", PARTE network meeting, University of Amsterdam. 26 May 2018. Sleeman, Petra, Tabea Ihsane & Anne Tamm.
"Fieldwork in the Aosta Valley: A study of the partitive article", PARTE network meeting, University of Amsterdam. 25 May 2018. Stark, Elisabeth & Tabea Ihsane.
"Convergence and divergence in the expression of partitivity: a cross-linguistic experimental study", Workshop for Barbara Partee's honorary doctorate, University of Amsterdam, 9 January. Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane.
2017
"The L2 acquisition of the (non-)referentiality of des/du NPs in French and the role of cross-linguistic influence", PARTE Workshop Partitive Determiners and Partitive Case, Ca'Foscari University, Venice, 13 November. Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane.
"Semantic agreement within adjective-noun constructions in French: a dynamic approach", Workshop The Morphosyntax of the Romance languages and its formal analysis, Romanistentag, UZH, 11 October. Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane.
"The L2 acquisition of the French pronoun en by Dutch and German L1 speakers", Deuxième journée du Réseau thématique Langage et Communication, UNIGE, 14 September. Tabea Ihsane & Petra Sleeman.
"Reanalysis of Overt and Null Complementizers", 27th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG27), University de ALcalá, Spain, 19 May. Ji Young Shim & Tabea Ihsane.
"Enquêtes dialectologiques en Vallée d'Aoste (9-12 mai 2017): Questionnaires", UZH, 4 May [invitation dans le cadre du séminaire de Prof E. Stark]. Tabea Ihsane.
"La notion de "partitivité" : Tour d'horizon", UNINE, 25 Avril, [invitation dans le cadre du séminaire de Prof F. Diémoz]. Tabea Ihsane.
"The L2 acquisition of the French quantitative pronoun en by L1 learners of Dutch: Vulnerable domains and cross-linguistic influence", Workshop Cross-linguistic influence (in multilingualism): interdisciplinary approaches, U. Amsterdam, 13 January. Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane.
2016
"Partitive pronouns in contact: the influence of Dutch ER on the L2 acquisition of French EN", Workshop Partitivity and Language Contact, UZH, 25 November. Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane.
Invited talk. "Facets of the French pronoun en: a long journey", URPP Language and Space Colloquium, UZH, 17 November. Tabea Ihsane.
"Where is my complementizer?", 9th Days of Swiss Linguistics (9DSL), UNIGE, 30 June. Ji Young Shim & Tabea Ihsane.
"Syntactic Variation without Change: Pre-auxiliary Placement of Adverbs in the History of English", 9th Days of Swiss Linguistics (9DSL), UNIGE, 29 June. Eric Haeberli & Tabea Ihsane.
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being a ɸ-incomplete D", Workshop Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammar, UNIGE, 28 June. Ji Young Shim & Tabea Ihsane.
"The quantitative pronoun en in French: What acquisition may reveal about its analysis", 18th Annual Conference of the English Department (ACED18), Theoretical Linguistics, University of Bucharest, Romania, 3 June. Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane.
"The Rich Agreement Hypothesis: Diachronic (lack of) Evidence from English", Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Universität Konstanz, Germany, 26 February. Eric Haeberli & Tabea Ihsane.
2015
"Genericity and aspect in Italian", Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 4 September. Tabea Ihsane & Margherita Pallottino.
"Clausal Complements in Verbal and Nominal Domains", Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Main Session, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 4 September. Tabea Ihsane & Ji Young Shim.
"Complementizer Deletion, Subject Extraction, and Beyond", Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 11 (WAFL11), University of York, England, 5 June. Ji Young Shim & Tabea Ihsane.
"Characterising Genericity: how bare plural objects affect the generic interpretation", 17th Annual Conference of the English Department (ACED17), Theoretical Linguistics, University of Bucharest, Romania, 5 June. Margherita Pallottino & Tabea Ihsane.
"From Complementizer Deletion to Subject Extraction: a cross-linguistic perspective", 17th Annual Conference of the English Department (ACED17), Theoretical Linguistics, University of Bucharest, Romania, 5 June. Ji Young Shim & Tabea Ihsane.
"Partitive constructions in French and gender mismatches", 17th Annual Conference of the English Department (ACED17), Theoretical Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Section, University of Bucharest, Romania, 4 June. Tabea Ihsane & Petra Sleeman.
"Gender mismatches in partitive constructions in French", Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL45), University of Campinas, Brasil, 7 May. Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane.
"Gender mismatches in partitive constructions, phases and locality", Poster, 41st Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG41), Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Italy, 27 February. Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane.
2014
"Partitive article and partitive pronoun in French: focus on the intersection", Partitivity in Romance and Beyond (PiRAB), University of Zurich. 11 December. Tabea Ihsane.
"Facts: The Interplay Between the Matrix Predicate and Its Clausal Complement", The Asian and European Linguistic Conference, Newcastle University, GB, 5 December. Ji Young Shim & Tabea Ihsane.
"A Myriad of Facts; Facts from Korean", OEF Department workshop, Bourg-Saint-Pierre, Switzerland, 11 October. Ji Young Shim & Tabea Ihsane.
"Quel(s) genre(s) pour les noms animés en français ?", Les Relations d'Accord dans la Syntaxe du Français, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 26 September. Tabea Ihsane & Petra Sleeman.
"Why include semantic and pragmatic features in teaching grammar rules?", Poster, 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), 10-15 August. Claire Forel, Tabea Ihsane & Eva Waltermann.
"De la mécanique au sens : le cas du pronom en en français", Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF 2014), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 21 July. Tabea Ihsane, Claire Forel & Françoise Kusseling.
"The History of English Auxiliaries: Evidence from Adverb Placement", International Conference of English Historical Linguistics 18 (ICEHL-18), University of Leuven, Belgium, 17 July. Eric Haeberli & Tabea Ihsane.
"Adverb Placement in the History of English Modals", 16th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS16), Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 3 July. Eric Haeberli & Tabea Ihsane.
"Adverb Placement in the History of English Auxiliaries", SSL, 8es journées de linguistique suisses, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 21 June. Eric Haeberli & Tabea Ihsane.
2013
"On the Interaction between Syntax and Morphology: New Evidence from the Loss of Verb Movement in the History of English", 19th International Congress of Linguists (ICL19), University of Geneva, Switzerland, 22 July. Eric Haeberli & Tabea Ihsane.
Invited talk. "Revisiting the Loss of Verb Movement in the History of English", research seminar, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2 July. Eric Haeberli & Tabea Ihsane.
"Gender mismatches in French and feature checking", 15th Annual Conference of the English Department (ACED15), University of Bucharest, Romania, 7 June. Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane.
"Gender agreement in French and phase theory", 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Workshop 7 (Syntax and Semantics of Adjectives), University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 14 May. Tabea Ihsane & Petra Sleeman.
"Gender phenomena in French", 23rd Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG23), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 10 May. Tabea Ihsane & Petra Sleeman.
"Gender agreement with animate nouns in French", 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL43), CUNY, New-York, USA, 19 April. Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane.
"Local and non-local gender agreement in French", 39th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG39), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, 21 February. Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane.
"Local and non-local gender agreement in French", Romance-Lab, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 12 February. Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane.
2012
"The Use of Parsed Corpora in Diachronic Syntax: A Case Study of Adverb Placement in the History of English", SSL, 7es journées de linguistique suisses, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland, 14 September. Eric Haeberli & Tabea Ihsane.
"Revisiting the Loss of Verb Movement in English: 'Adverb-V' Order in Middle and Late Modern English", International Conference of English Historical Linguistics 17 (ICEHL-17), University of Zurich, Switzerland, 22 August. Eric Haeberli & Tabea Ihsane.
"Adverb Placement and the Loss of Verb Movement in the History of English", 14th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS14), Centre of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, 5 July. Eric Haeberli & Tabea Ihsane.
"One clitic with several sources", 42th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 42), Southern Utah University, USA, 21 April. Tabea Ihsane.
2011
"One clitic, several 'sources'". Challenging clitics, University of Oslo, Norway, 27 October.
"The scope of referential des-NPs in French", Poster, SinFonIJA 4, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 2 September.
"Selection at the interfaces", Swiss Workshop in Generative Grammar (SWIGG), CUSO, University of Geneva, 15 April.
2010 and before
"French: en pronominalisation", Mediterranean Syntax Meeting 3 (MSM3), University of Athens, Greece, 8 October 2010.
"The inflectional domain of English bare nouns", First Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations (NP1), University of Vigo, 2 October 2009.
"En pronominalising de-constituents: Qu’ en penses-tu?", Swiss Workshop in Generative Grammar (SWIGG), CUSO, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 25 April 2009.
Keynote speaker. "Paths to referentiality", Workshop on Weak Referentiality, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, 27 March 2009.
"On the interpretation of a-NPs and bare nouns… and their structure", Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics (SWELL), University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 20 March 2009.
"Determination revised: languages with and without determiners", NORMS Workshop on Determination, University of Tromso, Norway, 18 March 2009.
"On the edge of DP: the left periphery and the structure of arguments", Interface Legibility at the Edge, University of Bucharest, Romania, 25 June 2006.
"On the edge of DP: the left periphery and the structure of arguments", Edges in Syntax, Cyprus College, Cyprus, 16 May 2006.
Invited speaker. "The nominal left periphery and the internal structure of arguments", Research Seminar, Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva, 24 January 2006.
"Some issues on the structure of du/des-NPs in French", LingLunch, Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva, 20 December 2005.
Invited speaker. "Nominals and their left periphery", University of York, UK, 14 May 2003.
Invited speaker. "Demonstratives, reinforcers and contrast", University of York, UK, 13 May 2003.
Invited speaker. "DP-internal movement and DP licensing", University of York, UK, 12 May 2003.
"A Non-Prepositional Account of du/des ‘of.the’ Constructions", Ecole doctorale en sciences du langage, Sils-Maria, Switzerland, 23 April 2005.
"DP-internal movement: checking the specificity and definiteness features", Conference on Motivating Movement, Jordanstown, Ulster, 26 January 2001. Tabea Ihsane & Genoveva Puskás.
"That's a demonstrative: that's a head!", 5th International Afroasiatic Linguistics Conference (CAL5), Université Paris VII, France, 29 June 2000.
"A Typology of Possessive Modifiers", From NP to DP, Université d’Anvers, Belgium, 11 February 2000.