RGCC 2021: 24-26 March 2021

All times below are UTC/GMT (UK time)*

*For local time zones on the week of the workshop, visit timeanddate.com/worldclock

Wednesday 24 March (pm)

2-4pm: Doing Romance Linguistics roundtable and Q&A

Guest speakers: Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht University), Shana Poplack, (University of Ottawa), and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (The University of Texas at Austin)

4.15-5.45pm: Session 1: Romance in context: heritage speakers and schools

4.15pm: Kate Lightfoot (Anglia Ruskin University): Gender agreement and gender assignment in heritage French in the UK

4.45pm: Michele Goldin (University at Albany, SUNY), Esther Hur (Rutgers University), and Julio López-Otero (Indiana University Bloomington): Lexical frequency effects in the acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax: evidence from dual language schools.

5.15pm: Jan Casalicchio (University of Palermo) and Manuela Caterina Moroni (University of Bergamo): The use of the additive particle anche in German Heritage Speakers of Italian

Thursday 25 March (am + pm)

10.45am-1pm: Session 2: Romance in contact and context

10.45-11.15am: Anna Pineda (Sorbonne Université): The effects of language contact (Spanish-Catalan) on the development of Differential Object Marking

11.15-11.45pm: Ana Regina Calindro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Isis Barros (Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia): The (non) use of dative markers in Afro-Brazilian Portuguese

12.15-1pm: Lightning talks: 5 x 5 = 25 mins + Q&A

• Federica Mazzone (Università Ca'Foscari, Venezia), Jennifer Comploi (Università Ca'Foscari, Venezia), and Sílvia Perpiñán (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): The Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy under Bilingualism. The Influence of Ladino in Standard Italian

• Núria de Rocafiguera, Rut Benito and Aurora Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): The role of information structure on the interpretation of null and overt subjects: Catalan and Spanish in contact

• Borja Alonso Pascua (Universidad de Salamanca): Contacto lingüístico y transferencia de categorías gramaticales español-portugués: La variación de los sistemas de perfecto en las hablas fronterizas peninsulares

• Ana Paola Jakubów (State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) / Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)): Developmental changes in the production of variable number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese from the perspective of intra-speaker linguistic contact

• Andrea Menegotto (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata-Conicet): The birth of a new linguistic variety? Effects of inclusive language movements on 2G and 3G Spanish

1-2pm break

2-3.45pm: Public lecture/activities

Eliezer Papo (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): La diferensia entre el ladino i el kristilyano [talk will be given in Ladino]

Carlos Yebra López (New York University): ‘How to write your name in Solitreo’ workshop

4-5.30pm: Session 3: Judeo-Romance

4pm: Alice Corr (University of Birmingham): Grammars of Judeo-Spanish project: Judeo-Spanish differential object marking in context and contact.

4.30pm: Jonas Grünke and Cristoph Gabriel (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz): Possessives and fronting of non-subject XPs in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish spontaneous speech: A case of contact-induced morphosyntactic variation?

5pm: Georgios Vardakis (University of Padua): Verb complementation in Corfioto and Judeo-Spanish of Thessaloniki: Infinitival reduction or loss?

Friday 26 March (am + pm)

10.30am-1pm: Session 4: Formal approaches to Romance syntax and morphology

10.30am: Julio Villa-García (University of Manchester): Head Spellout Across Varieties of Spanish and Romance

11am: Martin Maiden (University of Oxford): Can morphomic patterns be borrowed under language contact? The Badiot Ladin sigmatic subjunctive

11.30am: Martin Maiden (University of Oxford) and Oana Uță (University of Oxford and University of Bucharest): Croatian influence in the fate of the Istro-Romanian genus alternans?

12.15-1pm: Lightning talks: 5 x 5 = 25 mins + Q&A

• Ștefania Costea (University of Cambridge): When Daco-Romance meets Russian: inter- and intralinguistic variation in clitic climbing

• Caterina Bonan (University of Cambridge): Wh-to-Foc: evidence of low focus movement in Romance (and its consequences)

• Kim Groothuis (Ghent University): On the interaction between finiteness, negation, and verb movement: Northern Italian varieties and French compared

• Imanol Suárez Palma (University of Florida): Middles and agentivity in Ibero-Romance: a case of microvariation

• Renato García González (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla) and José Fernando Chapa-Barrios (El Colegio de México): Object Person Marking in two under-represented Spanish dialects of Mexico

1-2pm break

2-3pm Plenary lecture

Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign): Spanish, Romanian and Bilingual Language Change

3.30-5pm Session 5: Experimental approaches to Romance contact

3.30pm: Sílvia Perpiñán (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Adriana Soto-Corominas (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya): Indirect Structural Crosslinguistic Influence in Early Catalan-Spanish Bilinguals in Adulthood: Predicate Selection in Existential Constructions

4pm: Kate Bellamy (Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Lacito-CNRS)) and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (Leiden University Center for Linguistics): Él code-switches more than tú y yo: New data for the subject pronoun-verb switch constraint

4.30pm: Rut Benito, Núria de Rocafiguera and Aurora Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Differential Object Marking in Catalan and Spanish: Language contact effects in bilingual speakers