Programme

25 May 2026

09:20–09:50 Welcome & coffee

09:50–10:00 Introduction

Morning session

10:00–10:30 Luisa Seguin – A comparative analysis of object clitic placement and clitic climbing in Francoprovençal [abstract]

10:30–11:00 Giosuè Balocco – The morphological challenge of Burghin clitics. Defective Goal Agree and PF operations [abstract]

Coffee Break (20 min)

11:20–11:50 Cristina Guardiano, Emanuela Li Destri, Marco Longhin, Gaia Sorge – Gallo-Romance patterns in Italo-Romance: number marking and bare nouns [abstract]

11:50–12:20 Tabea Ihsane, David Paul Gerards, Elisabeth Stark – Correlating bare arguments and overt number marking on nouns? Insights from Francoprovençal [abstract]

12:20–12:50 Michele Tron – On the fringes of Romance number morphology: stem change and stress shift in Alpine Occitan [abstract]

Lunch (1 hour)

Plenary talk

13:50–14:50 Michelle Sheehan – Chagossian Creole long and short verb forms and the theory of control (Joint work with Jonathan Kasstan and Anand Syea)

Coffee Break (20 min)

Afternoon session

15:10–15:40 Laure Ermacora, Ur Shlonsky – The postverbal interrogative particle -ti in Valdostan Francoprovençal [abstract]

15:40–16:10 Jonas Grünke – Non-canonical indirect interrogatives in French: Evidence from Swiss French [abstract]

Coffee Break (20 min)

16:30–17:00 Stéphane Goyette – On the genesis of two French contact varieties [abstract] 

19:00 Dinner at La Cave Wine Bar & Restaurant (pre-registration required)

26 May 2026

09:30–10:00 Welcome & coffee

Morning session

10:00–10:30 Tabea Ihsane, Tania Paciaroni, Elisabeth Stark – Modelling the Francoprovençal nominal morphology with a Network Morphology account [abstract]

10:30–11:00 Vincent Krebs – Mode-related modification and the structure of Quality nominals [abstract]

11:00–11:30 Gabrielle Aguila-Multner – Degree and cacophony: de-N̄ phrases as plural or mass indefinites [abstract]

Coffee Break (20 min)

11:50–12:20 Nicola D'Antuono, Cecilia Poletto – The syntactic-pragmatic division of labour in Emilian negative doubling and concord [abstract]

12:20–12:50 Prudence de Pontbriand – Anaphoric null objects in Medieval French: A corpus study [abstract]

Lunch (1 hour)

Plenary talk

13:50–14:50 Sam Wolfe – Stability and Change in Gallo-Romance Syntax

Coffee Break (20 min)

Afternoon session

15:10–15:40 Luisa Seguin, Jonathan Kasstan, Naomi Nagy, Maria Polinsky – On competing accounts of variable subject clitic realization in Francoprovençal [abstract]

15:40–16:10 Laure Ermacora – Clitiques sujets et objets en francoprovençal valdôtain : une approche dérivationnelle [abstract]

16:10–16:40 Ignasi Planas-Villalba, Xavier Villalba – The evolution of possessive systems in Gallo-Romance varieties [abstract]

16:40–17:00 Concluding Remarks

Informal get-together at the pub