In Trinity Term 2026 we will have 4 seminars. Join us on Thursdays 5pm, room 10.39.02 in the Schwarzman Centre.
Dr Anna Paradís; Dr Marc Olivier-Loiseau (Trinity College Dublin)
30 April: Which way do clitics look? Revisiting Tobler Mussafia in Old Occitan, Old Catalan and Old French
Victor-Sebastian Grigoraș
14 May: Vocatives in Romanian: From cross-dialectal grammatical patterns to the encoding of social and pragmatic information.
Professor Maria Napoli (Università del Piemonte Orientale) and Professor Chiara Fedriani (Università di Genova)
21 May: At the intersection of semantics and pragmatics: Attention-getting, evidentiality, and (im)politeness with the Italian vision verbs guardare and vedere.
Dr Sandra Paoli
28 May: What Historical Pragmatics can tell us about linguistic indeterminacy: the view from (mostly) Romance.
Everyone interested is warmly invited!
