We have a full programme for Hilary Term 2026! Join us on Thursdays 5pm, room 30.022 in the Schwarzman Centre.
Xavier Bach, Toulouse
22 January: The morphology of subject clitics in Romance
Annick Paternoster, Università della Svizzera Italiana
5 February: Che ti venga la peste 'May the plague take you!': a conventionalized impoliteness formula for Italian disease curses (14th–20th Century)
12 February — NO SEMINAR
Veronica Bressan, Ca’ Foscari
19 February: Standard vs substandard prepositional relatives in Italian: notes on structure and processing
Zhihao (Kanyo) Lyu
26 February: Classical numerals in Italian
Olivia Walsh, Nottingham
5 March: Ridiculous? Attitudes to regional French and its speakers in an 18th-Century metalinguistic text
Ziwen Wang, and Maria Copot, University of Surrey
12 March: The preservation of heteroclite inflexion in Romance as a function of existing morphological complexity: an information-theoretic approach
Everyone interested is warmly invited!
