Dunoyer, C. & L. Seguin. Teaching Francoprovençal in the Alps: linguistic representations and glottopolitical Issues. (Bilingual publication in English-Francoprovençal)
Seguin, L. When pronouncing a lower copy saves the day: how ‘early’ chain realization voids island effects in Valdôtain Patois. Email me for a draft!
Seguin, L. Mapping syntax to PF: a feature-based account of the realization of wh-chains. Email me for a draft!
Seguin, L. The semantic and syntax of exclusive constructions: a case study of Italian eccetto; Draft.
Seguin, L. In press. Deletion of higher copies voids island effects:In Akolkar S., A. Galvano, I. Akil, F. Liu and L. Mikkelsen (eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics 42. Cascadilla Press Paper.
Seguin, L. In press. The (in)compatibility of wh and focus in root and embedded questions in Romance and beyond. In The Oxford Handbook of Syntactic Cartography, Sam Wolfe (Ed.), Oxford University Press. Chapter;
Seguin, L. 2025. The syntax and pragmatics of clause internal wh-phrases in Valdôtain Patois, Linguistic Variation: Theoretical and empirical issues in Italo-Romance varieties, 25(2). Online first version here;
Seguin, L. and G., Thoms. 2025. Unifying parasitic gaps and ATB extraction: mismatches in Italian and beyond, In Clemens L., Gribanova, V. & G. Scontras (Eds.) Syntax in Uncharted Territories: Essays in Honor of Maria Polinsky, eScholarship, 505-523. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7280/S99P2ZQM.
Seguin, L. 2025. Choose me! Optionality in wh-movement and PF copy deletion: evidence for overt-covert movement in Valdôtain Patois. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 10(1), 1-44. DOI: 10.16995/glossa.17077.
Seguin, L. 2020. Language Contact in the Balkan Sprachbund: A study of transparency in Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, Italian, and Greek, Language Ecology 4(2), 151-174. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/le.20003.seg (first published online May 2023);
Seguin, L. 2020. Transparency and language contact: The case of Haitian Creole, Fongbe and French, The Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 35:2, 218-252. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00060.seg;
Seguin, L. 2018. Transparency and Language Contact: the Case of Haitian Creole, French and Fongbe, Linguistics in Amsterdam, vol. 11 nr. 2, 211 – 242.
Seguin, L. 2025. Overt-covert movement, copy deletion, and chain realization in Valdôtain Patois. University of Maryland College Park doctoral dissertation. Read it here.
Seguin, L. 2024. The syntax and semantics of exceptive-exclusive constructions: a case study of Italian eccetto. Lingbuzz.
Seguin, L. 2023. Clause internal wh-phrases are actually fronted: evidence from Valdotain Patois. Qualifying Paper. Lingbuzz;
Seguin, L. 2023. Exceptives Questionnaire – Italian, Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8014593;
Bešlin, M., Howitt, K., Krauska, A., Seguin, L., and Uriagereka, J. Syntax Redux: On Structured Sentences, Cambridge University Press.
Nagy, N., C. Dunoyer, J. Kasstan, & L. Seguin. 2025. Inter-dependent revitalization and field research: Linking Homeland and Heritage Francoprovençal. Poster accepted at New Issues in Language Contact Studies (NILCS 2025), L'Aquila (Italy). May.
Seguin, L. 2024. Reflexes of successive cyclic movement at the vP edge: copy pronunciation and NPA assignment in Valdôtain Patois. Going Romance 2024 (GoRo2024), Braga (Portugal), December. Slides.
Seguin, L. & M. Polinsky. 2024. Discourse-level analysis of exclusive eccetto (Poster). Going Romance 2024 (GoRo2024), Braga (Portugal), December.
Seguin, L. 2024. The syntax and semantics of Italian exceptive-exclusive constructions. 54th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 54), Provo, Utah, USA. May. Slides.
Seguin, L. 2024. Overt covert movement in Romance. West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), UC Berkeley, USA. April. Slides.
Seguin, L. and G. Thoms. 2024. Unifying parasitic gaps and ATB extraction: mismatches in Italian and beyond. West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), UC Berkeley, USA. April. Slides.
Seguin, L. 2023. Clause internal or fronted? The syntax and pragmatics of wh-phrases in Valdôtain Patois. 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 53), Paris, France. June. Slides.
Seguin, L. 2023. Clause internal wh-phrases are actually fronted. Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle (RALFE), Nice, France. May. Slides.
Seguin, L. 2022. Clause internal wh-phrases and the Low Left Periphery: the case of Valdôtain Patois. Mapping Syntax – Universals, Variation, Acquisition, and Change, Oxford, UK. November. Slides.
Seguin, L. 2022. Clause internal wh-phrases and the Low Left Periphery of Valdôtain Patois. 16th Comparative Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (CIDSM 16), Naples, Italy. September. Slides.
Seguin, L. 2016. Poster: Transparency in Haitian Creole, Fongbe and French. Juniorendag, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March
Seguin, L. 2024. Excluding exclusives. The Science of Linguistic Diversity, University of Maryland. May. Poster. Poster.
Seguin, L. 2023. Italian exceptive-exclusive constructions: phrasal or causal? A case study of eccetto. SynNYU. November. Poster.
Seguin, L. 2022. On a dedicated whP in the Low Left Periphery, evidence from clause internal wh-phrases and Foci in Valdôtain Patois. NYU Syntax Brown Bag, New York University. October. Handout.
Seguin, L. 2022. Clause internal wh-phrases in Valdôtain Patois. ECO-5, Boston, USA. April.
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