Presentations

Invited and local talks

Sheehan, M., Mazzola, G., Raffy, C. and Garside, L. 2026. The Promiscuous Predicate Condition: evidence from Romance perception verbs (joint work with Giulia Mazzola, Clémentine Raffy & Liam Garside). Invited talk at SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge, 9 June 2026.

Mazzola, G. 2026. Does semantics motivate syntactic micro-variation? Empirical evidence from causative embedding in Southern Calabrese (Italo-Romance). Invited talk at Meaning and Grammar Research Group, The University of Edinburgh, 28 April 2026.

Ledgeway, A. 2025. Language contact in Magna Graecia: Convergence, layering and hybridism. Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Cognitivi sul Linguaggio (CISCL) Research Seminars, Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences, University of Siena, 10, November 2025.

Casalicchio, J., Pineda, A. and Sheehan, M. 2025. Variació de cas en les construccions causatives del català, el francès i l’italià. Seminari ROLLING, November 2025.

Ledgeway, A. 2025. Punti di incontro tra greco e romanzo: processi di ellenizzazione e di romanicizzazione in Italia meridionale. Seminario Pisano di Linguistica Italiana (SPLIT), il Dipartimento di Filologia, Letterature e Linguistica, University of Pisa, 27 October 2025. 

Sheehan, M., Mazzola, G., Raffy, C. and Garside, L. 2025. Causation and Perception in Romance: implications for the syntax-semantics mapping. Invited talk at Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Austria, 7 May 2025. 

Sheehan, M. 2025. How many cycles? Is there a v-related phase? If so how big is it? Invited talk at Workshop on Locality, Stony Brook University, 9-11 April 2025.  

Raffy, C. 2025. Encoding complex causal relations: French Faire-Que constructions. Invited talk at the online seminar Converging on Causal Ontology Analyses (COCOA), 11 April 2025.

Raffy, C. 2025. Revisiting faire-causatives: mapping morphosyntactic complexity to conceptual complexity. Invited talk at the workshop Cause(e/r), Universität zu Köln, 24-25 January 2025.

Sheehan, M. 2025. The syntax and semantics of causation and perception. Invited talk given at Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics (OASIS) 4, University of York, 15 January 2025.   

Sheehan, M., Casalicchio, J. and Pineda, A. 2024. Clitic intervention effects: patterns of Romance variation. Oral presentation at North East Syntax Seminar (NESS), Newcastle University, December 2024.  

Sheehan, M. and Mazzola, G. 2024. How autonomous is syntax? A micro-syntactic perspective. Invited talk given at the Meaning and Grammar Research Group, Edinburgh University, 5 November 2024.

Sheehan, M. 2024. European Portuguese long passives: understanding the restrictions. Invited talk at University of Siena, 28 October 2024. 

Mazzola, G. and Sheehan, M. 2024. Causation and perception: how similar are they? Invited talk at Philosophy of Linguistics Workshop, Durham University, 22 October 2024. 

Raffy, C. 2024​. Romance LET-causatives: encoding causation by omission. Invited talk at Philosophy of Linguistics Workshop, Durham University, 22 October 2024.

Garside, L. 2024. A socio-syntactic perspective on Spanish causatives. Talk at Language Variation & Change Research Group, Newcastle University, 22 October 2024.

Ledgeway, A. 2024. ‘Cartography and the interfaces: the role of phases in licensing information structure seen through the lens of PF’, Zoom na Cartografia, Univerdade de Campinas and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil (online), 18 April 2024.

Peer-selected Presentations

Garside, L. 2026. Diatopic variation in Spanish causatives: an empirical approach to structural analyses. Oral presentation at Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics LingO 2026, 22-23 June 2026.

Ledgeway, A. 2026. Magna Grecia: dialettologia e dinamiche di contatto linguistico. Il cambiamento esogeno: gerarchie parametriche, Effetto Catapulta e stratificazione. Seminario Internazionale di Sociolinguistica Storica e Dialettologia 2026, Università per Stranieri di Siena, 10 June 2026.

Ledgeway, A. 2026. Magna Grecia: dialettologia e dinamiche di contatto linguistico. Processi di ellenizzazione e di romanicizzazione. Seminario Internazionale di Sociolinguistica Storica e Dialettologia 2026, Università per Stranieri di Siena, 9 June 2026. 

Garside, L. 2026. Structural and Empirical Insights into Spanish Causatives Across Dialects. Oral presentation at Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference, 1-3 June 2026. 

Sheehan, M., Mazzola, G., Raffy, C. and Garside, L. 2026. On the relationship between s- and c-selection: evidence from Romance verbs of perception. Oral presentation at Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG) 35, 27-29 May 2026.

Garside, L. 2026. An inter-dialectal mapping of Spanish causative verbs: a quantitative approach. Poster presentation at Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG) 35, 27-29 May 2026.

Sheehan, M., Mazzola, G., Raffy, C. and Garside, L. 2026. On the relationship between s- and c-selection: evidence from Romance verbs of perception. Oral presentation at Salzburg Comparative Syntax Workshop (SalCoS) 21-23 May 2026.

Sheehan, M., Mazzola, G., Raffy, C. and Garside, L. 2026. On the relationship between s- and c-selection: evidence from Romance verbs of perception. Poster at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 48, 21-23 April 2026. 

Casalicchio, J., Pineda, A. and Sheehan, M. 2026. Intervention in Romance cliticization: what varies and what doesn’t. Poster at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 48, 21-23 April 2026. 

Garside, L. 2026. An empirical approach to diatopic variation in Romance causative verbs. Oral presentation at 16th Newcastle/Northumbria Postgraduate Conference in Language & Linguistics (16th NNPCiLL), 14 April 2026.

Mazzola, G, and Inglese, G. 2026. Typological predictions in diachrony: frequency effects on the anticausative alternation of Italian and Spanish. Oral presentation at International Workshop on Romance SE/SI Constructions, Universitat de Barcelona, 22-23 January 2026.

Mazzola, G. 2025. "Non è nostru dd’infinitu!": infinitival vs. Mi-clauses in Southern Calabrese. Oral presentation at Multidisciplinary Approaches to Morphosyntactic Variation, MUMOVA 2025, KU Leuven, 11-12 December 2025.

Casalicchio, J., Pineda, A. and Sheehan, M. 2025. Intervention in Romance cliticization: parameters of variation. Oral presentataion at Going Romance, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, 3-5 December 2025.

Raffy, C. and Cyrino, S. 2025. Understanding perception: see- and hear-verbs against embedded negation. Oral presentataion at Going Romance, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, 3-5 December 2025. 

Sheehan, M., Mazzola, G., Raffy, C. and Garside, L. 2025. Minimally Required Domains: evidence from perception verbs. Oral presentation at Going Romance, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, 3-5 December 2025. 

Casalicchio, J., Pineda, A. and Sheehan, M. 2025. Intervention in Romance cliticization: parameters of variation. Oral presentation at The 16th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris, 12-14 November 2025. 

Mazzola, G., Sheehan, M., Raffy, C. and Garside, L. 2025. The syntax of visual and auditory perception along the Binding Hierarchy: an exploratory comparative corpus study of Romance languages. Oral presentation at Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 10-12 September 2025. 

Mazzola, G., Sheehan, M., Raffy, C., Garside, L. and 2025. The syntax of perception along the Binding Hierarchy: an exploratory comparative corpus study of Romance languages. Oral presentation at Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), 29 August 2025. 

Ledgeway, A. 2025. Il contatto greco-romanzo nell’Italia meridionale: Gerarchie parametriche, Effetto Catapulta e stratificazione. XXXI Congresso internazionale di linguistica e filologia romanze, Università di Lecce, 30 June -5 July 2025. 

Raffy, C. 2025. Does complex syntax always mean complex semantics? A closer look at French complex causatives. Invited talk at Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique, University of Geneva, 6 May 2025. 

Ledgeway, A.,  Schifano, N. and Silvestri, G. 2025. When Greek meets Romance: Processes of Hellenization and Romanicization in southern Italy. Presentation at Transnazionalita e Plurilinguismo, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Lettere, Beni Culturali, Scienze della Formazione, Università di Foggia, 15-16 April 2025.

Sheehan, M., Garside, L. Cyrino, S., Ledgeway, A. Mazzola, G., Raffy, C. and Truswell, R. 2025. A pan-Romance comparison of causative and perception verbs. Oral presentation at Romance Linguistics Seminar (RLS), Cambridge University, 3 January 2025.

Sheehan, M., Casalicchio, J. and Pineda, A. 2025. Clitic intervention effects: patterns of Romance variation. Oral presentation at Romance Linguistics Seminar (RLS), Cambridge University, 3 January 2025.

Raffy, C. and Cordero-Rull, M. 2024. ‘Extending the causative continuum: faire-que constructions’. Oral presentation at Going Romance 2024, Universidade do Minho, 4-6 December 2024.