Programme

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25 May 2026

09:30–09:50 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

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

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

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

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

Lunch (1 hour)

Plenary talk

13:50–14:50 Michelle Sheehan – TBA

Coffee Break (20 min)

Afternoon session

15:10–15:40 Stéphane Goyette – On the genesis of two French contact varieties

15:40–16:10 Nicola D'Antuono, Cecilia Poletto – The syntactic-pragmatic division of labour in Emilian negative doubling and concord

Coffee Break (20 min)

16:30–17:00 Laure Ermacora, Ur Shlonsky – The postverbal interrogative particle -ti in Valdostan Francoprovençal

17:00–17:30 Jonas Grünke – Non-canonical indirect interrogatives in French: Evidence from Swiss French

19:00 Dinner (pre-registration required)

26 May 2026

09:15–09:30 Welcome & coffee

Morning session

09:30–10:00 Pierre Larrivée – The thin edge of the wedge: Non-informational pronominal subjects and V2 loss in early Medieval French

10:00–10:30 Daniela Baldassarre – Split Intransitivity in Old Picard: An old-time synchronic analysis

10:30–11:00 Prudence de Pontbriand – Anaphoric null objects in Medieval French: A corpus study

Coffee Break (20 min)

11:20–11:50 Tania Paciaroni, Tabea Ihsane, Elisabeth Stark – Modelling the Francoprovençal nominal morphology with a Network Morphology account

11:50–12:20 Vincent Krebs – Mode-related modification and the structure of Quality nominals

12:20–12:50 Gabrielle Aguila-Multner – Degree and cacophony: de-N̄ phrases as plural or mass indefinites

Lunch (1 hour)

Plenary talk

13:50–14:50 Sam Wolfe – TBA

Coffee Break (20 min)

Afternoon session

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

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

Coffee Break (20 min)

16:30–17:00 Daniela Marzo, Marinus Wiedner – La restructuration des systèmes de genre dans la (Gallo-)Romania médiévale

17:00–17:30 Ignasi Planas-Villalba, Xavier Villalba – The evolution of possessive systems in Gallo-Romance varieties

17:30–17:40 Concluding Remarks