Join us for a packed programme for Trinity Term! There will be five Romance Linguistics Seminars proper, two in week one, one in week two, and two in week four (no seminar in week 3). Some of these will occur at unwonted times, so pay careful attention to each listing!

Dr Louise Esher, CNRS
1 May, 11am, Room 2, Taylor Institution:  Complex analogy and paradigmatic networks in the history of Occitan velar preterites

Dr Simone De Cia, University of Manchester
1 May, 5pm, 47 Wellington Square, Discourse-pragmatic expletives in null-subject languages: evidence from the dialects of Italy

Professor Mairi McLaughlin, Berkeley
15 May, 5pm, 47 Wellington Square, Language and the media: what we can learn from the Journal de la langue françoise (1784-1795)

Dr Oana Uță Bărbulescu and Dr Ștefania Costea
22 May, 5pm, 47 Wellington Square, Notes on pronominal possession in Istro-Romanian

Dr Pau Francesch Sabaté, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Friday 23 May, 4pm, 47 Wellington Square, Nontransitive structures with perception verbs and the non-referential hi clitic in old Catalan and old Occitan

All welcome!