Presentations

2025

• Bach, Xavier. Les effets du changement phonétique sur les systèmes de classes flexionnelles : le futur et le conditionnel en jèrriais. CILFR Lecce, 30 June-5 July 2025.

• Bach, Xavier & Dagnac, Anne. Syncrétisme dans le domaine pronominal et verbal des variétés d'Oïl : un compromis de la complexité entre information et économie ? CILFR Lecce, 30 June-5 July 2025.

• Bras, Myriam, Stosic, Dejan, Bach, Xavier, Vergez-Couret, Marianne & Sibille, Jean. ParCoLab : une nouvelle ressource pour l'analyse contrastive des langues romanes à partir de corpus parallèles. CILFR Lecce, 30 June-5 July 2025.

• Bach, Xavier. Les effets du changement phonétique sur les systèmes de classes flexionnelles : le futur et le conditionnel en jèrriais. Workshop Le futur dans les langues romanes et les langues des Balkans, Toulouse, Université Jean Jaurès, 27 March 2025.

• Bach, Xavier & Del Prete, Fabio. Le futur, entre morphologie et sémantique. Workshop Le futur dans les langues romanes et les langues des Balkans, Toulouse, Université Jean Jaurès, 27 March 2025.

• Bach, Xavier. From movement verb to aspectual auxiliary to adverb:  auxiliary tornar + inf to adverbial tornar/tornarmai in Occitan and Romance. Workshop Time and Events between Language and Cognition: A View from Romance. Berlin, University of Indiana Gateway to Europe, 20-21 March 2025.

• Bach, Xavier. The dramatic effects of sound change on inflectional paradigms: resilience in future and conditional in Jèrriais. DIACRO 2, Prague, Charles University, 10 February 2025.

• Bach, Xavier & Štichauer, Pavel. Mixed auxiliation patterns in Gallo-Romance. Work meeting Diacro, Prague, Charles University, 6 February 2025.

2024

• Bach, Xavier. From expressing the past to expressing the future: the diachrony of the GO + infinitive periphrase in Occitan. Chronos 15, Toulouse, Université Jean Jaurès, May 2024.

• Bach, Xavier. Studying the long-term development of Occitan syntax (12th-20th century). Occitan Studies Day, University of Oxford, 11 May 2024. (Invited presentation)

• Bach, Xavier. Multilinguisme et changement linguistique à Montpellier (XIVe-XVIe siècles), Séminaire DUOC, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 20 March 2024. (Invited presentation)

2023

• Bach, Xavier. Verbal periphrasis in linguistic atlas data: suppletion, mixed auxiliation patterns, lexically specified periphrasis. Workshop Reinventing linguistic atlases. Old data, current methods, future questions. (Kick-off meeting of the ViGramm project), Nice, Université Nice Côte d’Azur, 16 November 2023. (Invited presentation).

• Bach, Xavier. Genre grammatical et genre naturel/social : une typologie. Séminaire SLÎM, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 9 November 2023. (Invited presentation)

• Bach, Xavier. Pronominalizing predicates in Romance. Invited keynote presentation, Linguistic Symposium of the Romance Languages 53, Paris, INALCO, 25-30 June 2023.

• Bach, Xavier & Esher, Louise. Slotting non-binary determiners into the French inflectional system. Challenging the Binary : non-binary, genderqueer and gender-neutral language, University College London, 14-15 June 2023.

• Bach, Xavier. Features shared by Ibero-Romance and Occitan: mesoclisis, differential object marking, alienability. Invited presentation Colloquium in Romance Linguistics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 8 June 2023.

• Bach, Xavier. Typologizing ‘natural’ gender in actual gender systems. Grammatical Gender and ‘Natural’ Gender, Freie Universität Berlin, 1-2 June 2023.

• Bach, Xavier & Esher, Louise. A linguistic approach to non-binary language in French. TORCH Lecture, Oxford, 23 May 2023.

• Bach, Xavier. Multilingualism and linguistic change in Montpellier (14th-16th century). Occitan Studies Day, Oxford, 20 May 2023.

• Bach, Xavier & Esher, Louise. A contrastive view of gender inclusive strategies in French and English. Romance Linguistics Seminar, Oxford, 11 May 2023.

• Bach, Xavier. Pronominaliser les propositions et les prédicats dans les langues romanes. Invited presentation Séminaire OCRE, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, 20 April 2023.

• Bach, Xavier. Orderly suppletion. Invited presentation General Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford, 30 January 2023.

• Bach, Xavier & Esher, Louise. A linguistic perspective on non-binary pronouns in French. RLS 51, University of Cambridge, 5-6 January 2023.

2022

• Pronominalizing predicates in Romance. Invited presentation, Romance Linguistics Symposium, Freie Universität Berlin, 7 December 2022.

• Negation in Gallo-Romance dialects: contact with differential development. International Conference in Historical Linguistics, Oxford, University of Oxford, 1-5 August 2022.

• Partial root analogy: suppletive blends in Romance. Workshop Comparative and dialectal approaches to inflectional analogy, Oxford, St Catherine’s College, 23-24 June 2022.

• The Origins of Inflection Classes. Invited presentation, DIACHRO-Prague Linguistics Seminar, Charles University, Prague. 26 April 2022.

• Analogical extensions of suppletive stems in the verb ‘go’ in Gallo-Romance. APIM 2, Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, 13-14 April 2022.

• (with Pavel Štichauer) Heteroclisis and periphrasis: A view from mixed perfective auxiliary systems in Italo-Romance and beyond, Oxford, Romance Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford, 10 March 2022.

2021

• Marques et marquages différentiels dans les parlers galloromans du sud, Romanisches Seminar, Zürich, Universität Zürich, 25 November 2021.

• DOM in Occitan. Workshop DOM in Catalan (and Romance) and language contact, Cologne, Universität zu Köln, 4-5 November 2021.

• Explaining patterns of suppletion in ordinal numerals. International Symposium in Morphology 3, Toulouse, 22-24 September 2021.

• (with Pavel Štichauer) Mixed auxiliation in Italo-Romance and inflection class. CIDSM 14, Helsinki, 3-5 September 2021.

• Asymmetric marking in Gallo-Romance. Romance Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford, 20 May 2021.

2019

• Occitan: history, endangerment, and revitalisation. Introducing endangered languages. Oxford, 20 November 2019.

• (with P.-J. Bernard) Double account books in Latin and Occitan in Montpellier in the 15th century, WMTC lunchtime colloquium, The Queen's College, University of Oxford, 22 October 2019.

• (with Pavel Štichauer) Mixed auxiliation in Italo-Romance and inflection class. Poster presentation. International Symposium in Morphology (ISMo) 2, Paris, 25-27 September 2019.

• Splits in possessive paradigms in South Halmahera-West New Guinea languages. Workshop Non-canonicity in inflectional paradigms, Surrey Morphology Group, Guildford, June 2019.

• (with Pavel Štichauer) Mixed auxiliation in Italo-Romance as inflection class. Workshop Non-canonicity in inflectional paradigms, Surrey Morphology Group, Guildford, June 2019.

• L'origine des classes flexionnelles. Invited presentation, CLLE-ERSS Linguistics Seminar, Toulouse, 18 April 2019.

2018

• La mesoclisi en ancian occitan. 8en Obrador de Lingüistica Occitana, Pau, 5-6 July 2018.

• Elements for a description of DOM in Languedocian and Gascon Occitan. Romance Linguistics Seminar, Oxford, 1st February 2018.

2017

• (with B. Fagard) Short reports on body parts and spatial relationships in Occitan. Workshop Evolution of Semantic Systems in Romance and Beyond, Paris, 28 November - 1st December 2017.

• A unified analysis of the morphosemantics of augmentatives in Occitan. AIEO 2017, Albi, July 2017.

• (with P.-J. Bernard) Mèrda, pets e pissa dins lo tèxte occitan del sègle 18. AIEO 2017, Albi, July 2017.

• (with P.-J. Bernard) Une double comptabilité latin-occitan à Montpellier au XVe siècle : approche archivistique et sociolinguistique. Workshop La comptabilité des villes au Moyen-Âge. Montpellier 14-15 June 2017.

• Elements for a description of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Occitan varieties. International workshop Differential Object Marking in Romance dialects, Paris INALCO, 21 April 2017.

2016

• How did Biak acquire prepositions? Poster at SLE, Naples, 31 August-2 September 2016.

• Occitan atlases, map theory, interpretation and methods. Discussing Romance, Oxford, 25 May 2016.

• How did Biak acquire prepositions, and is it always what they are? Syntax Working Group, Oxford, 2 March 2016.

• Morphosyntactic lexical features: on tomatoes, knives, and hermaphrodites. Invited presentation, Romance Linguistics Seminar, Oxford, 4 February 2016.

2015

• What can give rise to inflectional classes? Morphology days, Leuven, 17 December 2015.

• Tradurre in occitano. Vitalità della lingua e vitalità del movimento traduttivo negli ultimi trenta anni. Invited presentation. 10o Congresso sulle lingue locali, Pomaretto, 26 September 2015.

• Losing classifiers and acquiring gender. Insights from Austronesian languages, Workshop Loss and Gain in Language, Universitetet i Agder, Kristiansand, 19-22 May 2015.

• A typology of inflectional classes in Western Papua and Australia. Poster presentation Documenting and preserving indigenous languages: principles, practices and tools (SOAS & Mahidol University), Bangkok, 8-14 February 2015.

• Classifiers and gender in South Halmahera-West New Guinea, Austronesian. Workshop on Classifiers and gender, Max Planck Institute Nijmegen, 26-27 January 2015.

2014

• (with Benjamin Fagard) Categorias basicas de color en occitan lengadocian : estudi experimental e estudi de corpus. 11e Congrès de l'AIEO, Lleida, June 2014.

• Relative clause bracketing and the origin of possessive pronouns in Biak. University of Oxford, Syntax Working Group, 21 May 2014.

• Relative clauses in Biak (SHWNG) and the grammaticalization of possessive markers. APLL 7 London SOAS, 16-17 May 2014.

• Writing practices, scripta and linguistic knowledge in Southern France in the 13th century. Oxford Graduate research presentation day, Oxford Mediaeval Society, 25 April 2014.

• (with Benjamin Fagard) Basic colour categories in Lengadocian Occitan. University of Oxford, Romance Linguistics Seminar, invited presentation, 13 March 2014.

2013

• (with Louise Esher) On the paradigmatic status of the infinitive in French and Occitan. ICHL 2013, Oslo, 5-11 August 2013.

• (with Louise Esher) Je sacherais pas te dire : conséquences des “erreurs” flexionnelles sur la structure des paradigmes en français. Linguistique des formes exclues : descriptions, genres, épistémologie, Bruxelles, June 2013.

• (with Louise Esher) Je sacherais pas te dire : erreurs et variations flexionnelles dans la structure des paradigmes en français. JéTou 2013, postgraduate linguistics conference in Toulouse, 15-16 May 2013.

• Les pratiques linguistiques des anciens élèves des écoles immersives Calandreta. ISLRF13, 5-7 April 2013.

• Occitan double plurals. RLS41, Cambridge, 3-4 January 2013.

• Autour du Livre des Règles du monastère des Chanoinesses de Saint-Pantaléon de Toulouse (1358). Nouvelle recherche en domaine occitan : approches interdisciplinaires, Albi, June 2009.

• Le système argumentatif du Libre de sufficiencia de Pèire de Paternas (1348), entre latin et occitan. Postgraduate conference Jeunes chercheurs en domaine occitan, Montpellier, 2007.