Research Centre for Romance Linguistics

Publications by Members and Associates of the Research Centre

Cruschina, Silvio: ‘Syntactic Extraposition and Clitic Resumption in Italian’. Lingua 120: 50-73. (2010)

Cruschina, Silvio: ‘Fronting as focalization in Sicilian’. In Syntactic Variation. The Dialects of Italy, D’Alessandro R.,Ledgeway A. and I. Roberts (eds.), pp. 247-260. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2010)

Cruschina, Silvio: ‘On the syntactic status of sentential adverbs and modal particles’. STUF- Sprachtypologie und
Universalienforschung 63(4): 345-357. Special Issue, Björn Wiemer and Katerina Stathi (eds.). (2010)

Cruschina, Silvio: ‘Aspetti morfologici e sintattici degli avverbi in siciliano’. Atti della giornata di studio sui dialetti della Sicilia. Quaderni di lavoro ASIt n. 10: Studi sui dialetti della Sicilia, Jacopo Garzonio (ed.). Progetto
ASIS (Atlante Sintattico dell’Italia Settentrionale), pp. 21-42. Padova: Unipress. (2010)

Esher, Louise: 'The morphological relation of future, conditional and infinitive in Occitan', in van Kemenade, Ans & Nynke de Haas (eds.), Historical Linguistics 2009: selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam: Benjamins. (forthcoming)

Goldbach, Maria: “Metaphony in Portuguese 3rd class –o(C)C-ir and –u(C)C-ir verbs – comparison with modern Galician and mediæval Galego-Português”, in:Maiden, Goldbach, Hinzelin and Smith (eds) Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology, Oxford: OUP, 210-234. (2011)

G. Ferraresi & M. Goldbach: “Il discorso riportato”, in: Grammatica dell’italiano antico, edited by Lorenzo Renzi & Giampaolo Salvi, Bologna: Il Mulino, 1313-1335. (2010)

Goldbach, Maria, M.-O. Hinzelin, M. Maiden, P. O’Neill, JC Smith & A. Swearingen: “À la recherche de l’arbitraire dans la morphologie diachronique et comparative du verbe roman: syncrétisme et supplétisme verbaux” In: Maria Iliescu, Heidi Siller-Runggaldier & Paul Danler (eds), Actes du XXVe Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes. Innsbruck 2007 [3 – 8 septembre 2007, Innsbruck]. Berlin: De Gruyter, II, 311-320. (2010)

Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier: Die Stellung der klitischen Objektpronomina in den romanischen Sprachen. Diachrone Perspektive und Korpusstudie zum Okzitanischen sowie zum Katalanischen und Französischen ("The Position of Object Clitics in the History of Romance Languages. Diachronic Perspective and Corpus Study of Occitan as well as of Catalan and French"). Tübingen: Narr. (ScriptOralia; 134). (2009) Read abstract

Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier: “Les pronoms sujets en francoprovençal : emploi et formes” Revue de Linguistique Romane 73 (289-290): 279-305. (2009)

Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier: “Neuter pronouns in Ibero-Romance: discourse reference, expletives and beyond” In: Georg A. Kaiser & Eva-Maria Remberger (eds), Proceedings of the Workshop “Null-Subjects, Expletives, and Locatives in Romance”. Konstanz: Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Konstanz, 1-25. (Arbeitspapier; 123). (2009)

Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier: “La position des pronoms clitiques en ancien occitan” In: Guy Latry (ed.), La voix occitane. Actes du VIIIe Congrès de l’Association Internationale d’Études Occitanes. Bordeaux, 12-17 octobre [septembre] 2005. Pessac: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 67-81. (Collection « SABER »). (2009)

Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier: “L’interpolation dans les langues romanes: aspects diachroniques”. In: Maria Iliescu, Heidi Siller-Runggaldier & Paul Danler (eds), Actes du XXVe Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes. Innsbruck 2007 [3 – 8 septembre 2007, Innsbruck]. Berlin: De Gruyter, II, 331-339. (2010)

Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier: “Catalan and Spanish neuter pronouns in impersonal constructions: diachronic and dialectal variation”. Dialectologia 4: 23-45. (2010)

Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier: “Neutrale Pronomina in den iberoromanischen Sprachen” In: Christiane Maaß & Angela Schrott (Hg.), Wenn Deiktika nicht zeigen: zeigende und nichtzeigende Funktionen deiktischer Formen in den romanischen Sprachen. Münster: LIT Verlag, 117-136. (Romanistische Linguistik; 9). (2010)

Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier: 'Syncretism and suppletion in Gallo-Romance verb paradigms', in Maiden, Goldbach, Hinzelin and Smith (eds), Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology. Oxford: OUP, pp. 287-310. (2011)

Maiden, Martin: Allomorphy, autonomous morphology and phonological conditioning in the history of the Daco-Romance present and subjunctive. Transactions of the Philological Society 109:59-91 (2011)

Maiden, Martin: Suppléance romanche, hétéroclisie roumaine, défectivité ibéroromane: trois manifestations de la 'morphologie profonde' du verbe roman. Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 19:63-77 (2011)

Maiden, Martin: Riflessioni comparative e storiche sulla sorte del congiuntivo presente nelle varietà italoromanze. In Storia della lingua italiana e dialettologia. Editors: Ruffino G, D'Agostino M. 129-149. Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani, Palermo (2010)

Maiden, Martin: 'On the morphologization of some phonetic processes in the Oltenian verb', in Sanda Reinheimer Râpeanu (a c. di), Studia linguistica in honorem Mariae Manoliu. Bucharest: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti,175-85 (2009)

Maiden, Martin: 'On number syncretism in Romanian third person verb forms'. In Fernando Sánchez Miret (ed.) Romanística sin complejos. Homenaje a Carmen Pensado. Bern: Lang, 381-407. (2009)

Maiden, Martin: 'Un capitolo di morfologia storica del romeno: preterito e tempi affini'. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 125:273-309. (2009)

Maiden, Martin: 'Where does heteroclisis come from? Evidence from Romanian dialects'. Morphology 19:59-86. (2009)

Maiden, Martin: 'From pure phonology to pure morphology. The reshaping of the Romance verb'. Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes 38:45-82. (2009)

Maiden, Martin: 'Osservazioni sul futuro dalmatico (e guascone)'. Bollettino linguistico campano [2007] 11/12:1-19. (2009)

Maiden, Martin: 'Riflessioni comparative e storiche sulla sorte del congiuntivo presente nelle varietà italoromanze'. G. Ruffino ed. Atti dell'VIII incontro dell'Associazione di Storia della Lingua Italiana. pp. 129-49. (2010)

Maiden, Martin: 'Morphophonological persistence'. In Martin Maiden, Adam Ledgeway, John Charles Smith (eds) The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages Cambridge: CUP, 155-215. (2011)

Maiden, Martin: 'Morphophonological innovation'. In Martin Maiden, Adam Ledgeway, John Charles Smith (eds) The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages Cambridge: CUP, 216-267. (2011)

Maiden, Martin: 'Suppléance romanche, hétéroclisie roumaine, défectivité ibéroromane: trois manifestations de la «morphologie profonde» du verbe roman'. Mémoire XIX de la Société de Linguistique de Paris. (forthcoming)

Maiden, Martin: 'Morphomes and "stress-conditioned allomorphy" in Romansh', in Goldbach, Hinzelin, Maiden and Smith (eds), Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology. Oxford: OUP, pp.36-50. (2011)

Maiden, Martin, JC Smith, M.-O. Hinzelin. The Romance Verb: autonomous morphology in paradigm change. [To appear with Oxford University Press].

Maiden, Martin and P. O’Neill (2010). ‘On morphomic defectiveness: evidence from the Romance languages of the Iberian peninsula’. In M. Baerman (ed.) Defective Paradigms. Londra: British Academy/OUP, pp103-24.

Maiden, Martin, P. O'Neill and A. Swearingen (2009). 'Imperative morphology in diachrony: evidence from Romance languages'. In M. Dufresne, F. Dupuis and E. Vocaj (eds) Historical Linguistics 2007. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 99-108.

Maiden, Martin, Goldbach, M.-O. Hinzelin and JC Smith (eds, 2011), Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology. Oxford: OUP.

Maiden, Martin, JC Smith, A. Ledgeway (eds. 2011). The Cambridge History of the Romances Languages. 1 Structures. Cambridge: CUP.

O'Neill, Paul : 'The notion of the morphome', in Maiden, Goldbach, Hinzelin and Smith (eds), Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology. Oxford: OUP, pp.70-94. (2011)

Paoli, Sandra: In focus: an investigation of information and contrastive constructions In Syntactic Variation: The Dialects of Italy. Editors: D'Alessandro R, Ledgeway A, Roberts I. Cambridge University press, Cambridge, UK (2010)

Paoli, Sandra: Vollständige oder rudimentäre Merkmalsdoppelung? Zu den Flexionsmerkmalen unter C. In Romanistische Syntax - minimalistisch. Editors: Remberger E-M, Mensching G. 506: 157-173. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tubingen (2008)

Smith, John Charles: Variable analyses of a verbal inflection in (mainly) Canadian French In Morphological Autonomy: perspectives from Romance inflectional morphology. Editors: Maiden M, Smith JC, Goldbach M, Hinzelin M-O. 311-326. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011

Smith, John Charles: Change and continuity in form–function relationships In The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages. Volume 1: Structures. Editors: Maiden M, Smith JC, Ledgeway A. 1: 268-317. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011

Smith, John Charles: 'Variable analyses of a verbal inflection in (mainly) Canadian French', in Maiden, Goldbach, Hinzelin and Smith (eds), Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology. Oxford: OUP, pp.36-50. (2011)

Smith, John Charles: ‘Change and continuity in form–function relationships’, in Maiden, Smith & Ledgeway (eds.). The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3111-326. (2011)

Stavinschi, Alexandra: ‘On the developments of the Romance demonstrative systems: historical remarks and theoretical conclusions’. Diachronica 29:72-97 (2012).

Swearingen, Andrew : 'The Romance imperative, irregular morphology, syncretism and the morphome', in Maiden, Goldbach, Hinzelin and Smith (eds), Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology. Oxford: OUP, pp.119-134. (2011)

Conference activities and lectures

M. Maiden: On the diachrony of morphological defectiveness. Uncertain speakers and paranoid grammarians in Spanish and Portuguese. Seminar paper, Institutt for lingvistike og nordiske studier, Oslo, May 2009.

M. Maiden: Suppletion and defectiveness in diachrony. Some Romance evidence. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, August 2009.

M. Maiden: Suppletion in diachrony. A new case-study from the Romance Alps. Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Nicosia, Cyprus, September 2009.

M. Maiden: Un paradosso: la morfologia storica del congiuntivo presente romanzo. XXXI Romanistentag, Bonn, Sepetmber 2009.

M. Maiden: Suppletivismo romancio, difettività iberoromanza, eteroclisia romena: tre manifestazioni della "morfologia profonda" del verbo romanzo nel tempo e nello spazio. Invited paper at colloquium on Sprache und Raum, Universität Zürich, October 2009.

M. Maiden Semi-autonomous morphology? Some problems in the history of the Romanian verb. At OxMorph2 - The Second Oxford Workshop on Romance Morphology 'Autonomous Morphology in Diachrony: the Romance Languages (and Beyond)', St Catherine's College, Oxford, October 2010.

M. Maiden: Some lessons (I have learned) from history. Morphomes in diachrony. Workshop on ‘Perspectives on the Morphome’, Coimbra, October 2010.

M. Maiden Glimpsing the future. Some rare anomalies in the history of the Italo-Romance future and conditional. At conference Italian (Dialects) in Diachrony. University of Leiden. May 2011.

M. Maiden Why morphomes persist. The Romanian past participle. At workshop on The Role of Autonomous Morphology in Language Change, International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, Japan, July 2011.

M. Maiden Il participio passato nella storia delle lingue romanze (e soprattutto del romeno). Un problema di morfologia autonoma. Invited lecture at XVIII Skandinaviska romanistkongressen, Göteborg, August 2011.

M. Maiden Why morphomes exist. 8th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Cagliari, September 2011

M. Maiden [TBA] Invited paper at Colocviul internaţional al Departamentului de limba română, Bucharest, December 2011.

M. Maiden What is complex? Monstrous birth and perverse survival in Romance. Workshop on 'Morphological Complexity' (Surrey Morphology Group), London, January 2012.

M. Maiden [TBA] Invited paper at workshop on 'Morphological Complexity and Diachrony', Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, April 2012.

JC Smith: ‘New wine in old bottles? Change and continuity in form–function relationships’: lecture, Cambridge University Linguistic Society, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., 22 January 2009.

JC Smith: ‘-ont in Canadian French’: paper to Thirty-Seventh Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminar (RLS 37); Trinity Hall, Cambridge, U.K., 5 January 2009.

JC Smith: ‘The evolution of a verbal inflection in Canadian French’: paper to Nineteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 19); Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 10 August 2009.

JC Smith: ‘A refuncionalização morfológica nas línguas românicas’: invited plenary paper to Terceiro Simpósio internacional de letras neolatinas, Universidade federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11 November 2009.

JC Smith: ‘Variable analyses of a verbal inflection in (mainly) Canadian French’: paper to Forty-Third Annual Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europæa (SLE 43); Vilniaus universitetas, Vilnius, Lithuania, 3 September 2010.

JC Smith: ‘L’analyse variable d’une terminaison verbale en français’: paper to XXVI Congreso Internacional de Lingüística y Filología Románica/XXVIe Congrès International de Philologie et de Linguistique Romanes (CILPR 23); Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain, 11 September 2010.

JC Smith: ‘The morphome as a gradient phenomenon’: invited paper to Second Oxford Workshop on Romance Verb Morphology (OXMORPH 2); St Catherine’s College, Oxford, 9 October 2010.

M. Goldbach: “Productivity and Blocking in Portuguese and Spanish deverbal nouns on {-mento/miento}, {-ção/ción} and their origins on {-mentum} and {-tio} in Latin”, presentation at the 7th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, 2009.

M. Goldbach: “Korrelationen zwischen Variation in der Syntax und Entstehung von Synkretismen im Verbalsystem romanischer Sprachen”, (Correlations between syntactic variation and the emergence of syncretisms in the Romance verbal systems) paper presented on the 31st Conference on Romance languages in Bonn 2009, Section 1.5 Syntactic Change in the Romance Languages, Commonalities and Differences, organised by Esther Rinke & Georg Kaiser.

M. Goldbach: “Zyklizität und Blocking in Derivation und Flexion am Beispiel des Spanischen und Portugiesischen” (Cyclicity and Blocking in derivation and inflection, evidence from Spanish and Portuguese), paper presented on the 31st Conference on Romance languages in Bonn 2009, Section 1.8 'Is Morphology autonomous? Inflectional and Derivational Morphology in the Romance Languages', organised by Sascha Galgia / Marc-O. Hinzelin.

M. Goldbach: “Portuguese and Spanish event nominalisations: productivity and blocking and some perspective on psycholinguistic tests”, paper presented at the Romance Linguistic Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009.

M. Goldbach: “Syncretism at the interface? Diachronic analysis of syncretism in Italo- and Gallo-Romance”, 2nd Oxford Workshop on Romance Verb Morphology, University of Oxford, St. Cathrine’s College, 2010.

M.-O. Hinzelin: “Syncretism, antisyncretism, and suppletion in Western Romance” (19.11.2009). Romance Linguistics Seminar. University of Oxford.

M.-O. Hinzelin: “Langues et dialectes en Suisse – les rapports différents entre langue standard et dialecte en domaine roman et germanique” (23.01.2010). Journées d’étude : 'Langues de France, langues en danger : aménagement et rôle des linguistes'. Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France (DGLFLF) – Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (DDL, UMR 5596) – Laboratoire Interacti-ons, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations (ICAR, UMR 5191) – Institut Pierre Gardette. Institut des Sciences de l’Homme (ISH), Université de Lyon, 22.-23.01.2010.

M.-O. Hinzelin: “Les verbes météorologiques et impersonnels dans les langues romanes : absence d’un sujet, emploi d’un pronom explétif ou d’un marqueur discursif” (12.02.2010). Atelier de Morphosyntaxe, Labora-toire Dynamique Du Langage (DDL) - UMR 5596. Institut des Sciences de l’Homme (ISH), Universi-té de Lyon.

M.-O. Hinzelin: “Die Flexionsmorphologie des Französischen und Spanischen: Distribution von synkretischen Formen und ihre theoretische Modellierung” (13.04.2010). Philosophische Fakultät I, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.

M.-O. Hinzelin: “La morphologie verbale des langues gallo-romanes : patrons de syncrétisme stables et accidentels” (07.09.2010). 26é Congrés Internacional de Lingüística i Filologia Romàniques (CILFR). València, 06.-11.09.2010.

S. Cruschina: ‘Focus Fronting in Sardinian and Sicilian’ (with Eva Remberger). Paper presented at Incontro di Grammatica Generativa XXXV. University of Siena, 26-28/02/2009.

S. Cruschina: ‘Subject enclitic or agreement marker? The 2sg. –tu in Sicilian’ (with Melanie Rinollo). Paper presented at The 4th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting (CIDSM-4). 29-30/06/2009, University of Cambridge.

S. Cruschina: ‘From Modern to Old Romance: The Interaction between Information Structure and Word Order’ (with Ioanna Sitaridou). Paper presented at XIX International Conference on Historical Linguistics. 10- 15/08/2009, Radboud University Nijmegen.

S. Cruschina: ‘The peripheral syntax of polite imperatives’. Paper presented at The 5th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting (CIDSM-5). 02-03/07/2010, Freie Universität Berlin.

S. Cruschina: ‘Irregularity in the periphrastic paradigm and the autonomy of morphology’. Paper presented at X Incontro di dialettologia italiana. 22-24/09/2010, University of Bristol.

S. Cruschina: ‘Beyond the stem and inflectional morphology: an irregular pattern at the level of periphrasis’. Paper presented at The Second Oxford Workshop on Romance Morphology (Oxmorph2). 08-10/10/2010, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford.

L. Esher: 'Formal developments of the future and conditional in Occitan', Romance Linguistics Seminar, Oxford, 29 October 2009.

L. Esher: 'Asimetrias sistematicas entre futur e condicional dins les parlars occitans', XXVIe Congrès de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, Valencia, 6-11 September 2010.

L. Esher: 'Future and conditional in Occitan: a non-canonical morphome?'. The Second Oxford Workshop on Romance Morphology (Oxmorph2). 08-10/10/2010, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford.

C. Cappellaro: ' Overabundance and language use'. 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13-16/5/2010

C. Cappellaro: ' Un aspetto della morfologia storica dell’italiano. L’evoluzione del pronome personale esso rispetto al tratto [+/–umano]'. CILFR 2010, University of Valencia, Valencia 6-11/9/2010.

C. Cappellaro: 'Un aspetto della morfologia storica dell’italoromanzo. L’evoluzione del pronome personale esso rispetto al tratto [+/–umano]'. X Incontro di dialettologia italiana, University of Bristol, Bristol 22-24/9/2010.

C. Cappellaro: 'Overabundance in diachrony. A case study'. OxMorph 2, University of Oxford, Oxford 8-10/10/2010.

P. O'Neill: 'Mind the Gap: defectivity in the verbal paradigm. A corpus based account'. Presented at the Language Research Seminar, University of Liverpool, U.K. Feb. 2009.

P. O'Neill: 'Morphomes and morphosyntactic features'. Paper presentedt at OxMorph 2, University of Oxford, Oxford 8-10/10/2010.