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Dr. Luisa Seguin
/ luiza səgɛ̃ /
I am a postdoctoral research associate in the CNRS Bases Corpus Langage laboratory at Université Côte d'Azur in Nice (France), working with Dr. Lena Baunaz. I am also associated with the Centre d'études francoprovençales in Saint-Nicolas (Aosta Valley, Italy).
I work on Romance languages, with a particular emphasis on Francoprovençal. I am interested in how structure (syntax) interacts with the other components of the grammar: meaning and sound. I am currently working on questions in an understudied Francoprovençal variety spoken in Aosta Valley (Italy), Valdôtain Patois (see my dissertation here). Other projects focus on exceptive and exclusive constructions (Except John/setting aside John, everyone came.), reflexive verbs (They wash themselves.), and clitic pronouns. Finally, I am involved in #FPGlobal, a project led by Naomi Nagy (UofT) that aims to bring together speakers of Francoprovençal across Europe and North America, while creating a corpus of Francoprovençal varieties.
I hold a PhD from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, where I was advised by Maria Polinsky, Aron Hirsch, and Gary Thoms (NYU).
Email me: luisa [dot] seguin [at] univ-cotedazur [dot] fr
NEWS!
This spring, I will be giving two talks at the Gallo-Romance Advances in Morphology & Syntax (GRAMS) conference Dublin (end of May): one on object clitic placement in Francoprovençal and one (co-authored with Jonathan Kasstan, Naomi Nagy, and Maria Polinsky) on the variation in subject clitics across Francoprovençal varieties.
At the beginning of June, I will be presenting my work on wh-chain realization and island effects at Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle 9 (RALFE9) in Paris,
My paper The syntax and pragmatics of clause internal wh-phrases in Valdôtain Patois just appeared in the latest issue of Linguistic Variation: Theoretical and empirical issues in Italo-Romance varieties, 26(1), 203 - 220. Email me for a copy!
This summer, I have been invited to teach at the Yerevan Academy for Linguistics and Philosophy and at École d'été et semaine universitaire internationale 2026 in Saint-Nicolas (Italy)!
In the news and more!
In August 2025, the newspaper of Aosta Valley La Vallée Notizie published an article about my research on Francoprovençal! In July 2026, I gave a talk to the general public about Francoprovençal and my research at the library in La Thuile.
In the picture on the top of the page, a view of the Alps back home. Courtesy of Charbonnier Mongolfiere.
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