Recent talks

Villalba, Xavier. Expressivity cross-linguistically: A corpus study of expressive and evaluative adjectives in Romance and Germanic. Universität Zürich, 9/10/2025.

Villalba, Xavier. L’evolució dels adjectius expressius: un estudi de corpus. 7è Congrés internacional de corpus diacrònics en llengües romàniques. Universitat Jaume I and Universitat de València. 1-3/10/2025.

Villalba, Xavier. Exclamations and the common ground. Communication at the panel "Speech acts meet the Common Ground" of the 19th International Pragmatics Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 22-27/06/2025.

Villalba, Xavier. Adjetivos expresivos en romance: variación en la interfaz sintaxis/semántica. Invited talk at the II Simpósio sobre a expressividade. Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, 29-30/05/2025. 

Villalba, Xavier. Expressive adjectives and variation at the syntax/semantics interface. Communication at the international workshop Expressivity: Variation and change, within the 47th annual meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2025), Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, 5-7/03/2025.

Xavier Villalba "Expressive commitments: A normative approach to exclamations". Expressives galore! Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, December 16, 2024.

Leonardo Russo & Xavier Villalba "The interaction between clause size and Voice: Evidence from Catalan and Italian", Going Romance 2024, Universidade do Minho, Braga, December 4th-6th December,  2024

Xavier Villalba "Mirativitat i exclamativitat en una pragmàtica de compromisos", Gramàtica de la interacció: diacronia i sincronia. Universitat d'Alacant, La Nucia 29-31 d'octubre de 2024.

Xavier Villalba "Expressive adjectives and variation at the syntax/semantics interface", Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS) Lecture Series, University of Cologne, October 21, 2024.

Xavier Villalba "The clause size of Romance infinitival relatives", Theoretical and empirical issues in the study of clause size, Institutul de Lingvistic\u{a} ``Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti'', Bucharest, May 23, 2024.

Xavier Villalba "Mirative markers in exclamative sentences", 33rd Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Universidad de Alcalà, May 15-17, 2024.

Xavier Villalba "Mirative markers in Romance exclamative sentences", GLiF, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, April 11, 2024.

Xavier Villalba "The interaction of exclamative and mirative particles in Catalan and Spanish",  Going Romance XXXVII,  Nijmegen, November 30-December 1, 2023.

M.Teresa Espinal, Cristina Real & Xavier Villalba "From epistemicity to verum: the diachronic semantics of vaya in Spanish", Formal Diachronic Semantics 8, Bayonne, September 28-29, 2023.

Xavier Villalba "Exclamative markers in Catalan and beyond",  Workshop Functional Categories and Meaning Hierarchies,  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, September 21-22, 2023.

Xavier Villalba "La modificació expressiva: sintaxi i semàntica", Seminar of the CLT, February 3, 2023.

Xavier Villalba "Resizing Romance infinitival relatives", 1st Symposium on Research in Syntactic Cartography, Florianópolis, October 4-7, 2022.

Xavier Villalba "Expressive commitments: A normative approach to exclamations", EXPRESSIVES: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to the Expressive Content, Genova, September 20, 2022.

M.Teresa Espinal, Cristina Real & Xavier Villalba "From movement verb to evaluative intensifier: The evolution of Spanish vaya", Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) 23, New York University, June 8-10, 2022

Xavier Villalba "The defective structure of prepositional infinitive relatives in Romance: Consequences for the cartographic approach", Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 52, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 23, 2022.

Xavier Villalba "Commitments to exclamations", Commitments in Grammar and Discourse, DGfS 2022, February 23-25, 2022.