Talks
21st International Congress of Linguists, Poznań, Poland.
2024
Towards a formal account of auxiliary switch: new data from French. Going Romance 38. December 4-6. Universidade do Minho, Portugal.
Être or not: Auxiliary switch in the diachrony of French. ICL2024 - 21st International Congress of Linguists. September 4-8. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.
Auxiliary switch in Italian and Romance. SLE57 - Societas Linguistica Europaea. August 21-24. University of Helsinki, Finland.
with Anna Paradís. One size does not fit all: a comparative analysis of restructuring in Romance. Nouălea simpozion internațional de lingvistică, workshop "Theoretical and empirical issues in the study of clause size". May 23-24. Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti”, Romania.
Invited talk. Stressed proclitics in Middle French? Evidence that language change is driven by structural simplification. Historical Syntax Seminar. Invited by University of Oxford. May 1, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics.
with Anna Paradís. Exploring the morphosyntax of minoritised varieties: Restructuring in the Gallo-/Ibero-Romance continuum. Romance grammars, context and contact. January 8-10, University of Birmingham, UK.
2023
Word Order in Old Occitan: Infinitive Object Clitics. Going Romance 37. November 30-December 1, Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Invited talk. with Anna Paradís. Restructuring: one phenomenon, one size? Oxford Romance Linguistics Seminar. Invited by University of Oxford. November 16, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
When change fails: evidence from French. ICHL26 - 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. September 4-8. University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Stylistic Fronting as a Transparency Effect: new data from Old Gallo-Romance. SLE56 - Societas Linguistica Europaea. August 29-September 1. National and Kapadostrian University of Athens, Greece.
with Anna Paradís. The many faces of particles: exploring clause size in Romance. LAGB 2023 - Linguistics Association of Great Britain. August 29-September 1, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
Evidence for high infinitive placement in Old French. DiGS24 - Diachronic Generative Syntax. July 5-7, University of Paris, France.
The clausal architecture of Old French infinitival clauses. LSRL53 - Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. June 26-30, Université Paris Cité, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Université Paris Saclay, France.
Invited talk. Where do clitics go in Old Gallo-Romance infinitival clauses? Occitan Studies Day. Invited by University of Oxford. May 20, Trinity College.
Invited talk. Phonologically-driven syntactic change in French. Oxford Romance Linguistics Seminar. Invited by University of Oxford. February 23, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
Invited talk. Transitioning from PhD to Lectureship. Life Beyond the PhD Series. Invited by the Doctoral College at Ulster University. February 7, Online.
Infinitival morphology and clitic placement. Cambridge 50th Romance Linguistics Seminar. January 5-6, University of Cambridge, UK.
2022
Strong morphology, weak distribution: a case of failed change in French. Going Romance 36. November 30-December 2, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
When do clitics cliticise? LAGB 2022 - Linguistics Association of Great Britain. September 14, Ulster University, UK.
Invited talk. Supervising undergraduate research. Teaching and Learning Series. Jointly invited by ADEFFI-ASMCF. June 29, Online.
On the losses of enclisis and clitic climbing in the diachrony of French. DiGS23 - Diachronic Generative Syntax. June 8-10, New York University, USA.
Chute de l'enclise infinitive en français: une étude diachronique et comparée. Colloque international Diachro X - le français en diachronie. May 31 - June 2, Paris Sorbonne Université, France.
with Christina Sevdali & Raffaella Folli. Restructuring without clitic climbing. The syntax of causative, perception and restructuring verbs in Romance and Latin - SCUP22 - Syntactic Conferences at the University of Palermo . May 26-27, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.
The role of phonology in language change: evidence from clitics and infinitives in French. LSRL52 - Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. April 21-23, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Diachrony and directionality of clitic placement in Romance: evidence from French. PLC46 - Penn Linguistics Conference. March 18-20, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
2021
with Christina Sevdali & Raffaella Folli. Clitic placement with infinitives in the diachrony of French. LAGB 2021 - Linguistics Association of Great Britain. September 8, Online.
Preinfinitival strong pronouns in Medieval French: reconsideration and loss. mFiL - Manchester Forum in Linguistics. April 28-29, University of Manchester, UK.
with Cecilia Gialdini. As we speak: managing bilingual societies in Europe. Imagine Festival. March 25, Online.
Invited talk. The rise of infinitival proclisis in French is independent from the loss of clitic climbing: evidence from a corpus of legal texts. Linguistics Research Seminar series. March 23, Ulster University.
2020
Étude de la diachronie du français : constituer un corpus de textes légaux. Society for French Studies. July 29, Online.
2019
Targeting diachronic issues: a review of Old French" CreteLing. July 18, University of Crete.
Clitic placement in Old French non-finite contexts. ADEFFI Symposium, Maynooth University, Ireland.
Interviews in the media
2021
L'arrivée du pronom iel dans le dictionnaire le Robert marque-t-elle un tournant sociétal? 20 minutes. November 18, France. https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/3174555-20211118-arrivee-pronom-iel-dictionnaire-robert-marque-tournant-societal
Iel, un nouveau pronom dans le dictionnaire. BFMTV. November 17, France. https://www.bfmtv.com/replay-emissions/bfm-news/iel-un-nouveau-pronom-dans-le-dictionnaire-17-11_VN-202111170481.html