9:00 Welcome with coffee and tea
9:15 Opening
9:30-10:30 Olaf Koeneman: Pro drop and the morphological structure of inflection
10:30-10:45 Short break
10:45-11:15
Jordi Fortuny
On evidential as-clauses in Romance
Laura d’Aurizio, Johanna Stahnke, Laia Arnaus Gil, Isabel Silva Colaco and Natascha Müller
Fillers in bilingual children acquiring the non-null-subject property of French: Syntactic and prosodic considerations
Luis Eguren and Cristina Sánchez
Complex interrogative pronouns in Romance
11:20-11:50
Carlos Muñoz-Perez
The pseudo-split exclamative construction in Chilean Spanish
Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, Martina Riva, and Maria Teresa Guasti
Language as a Mirror of the Mind: How Italian Children Think about Distributivity
Nádia Canceiro and Gabriela Matos
Are root que-sentences in Portuguese as insubordinate as in Spanish?
11:55-12:25
Nadia Takhtaganova
Resisting Grammaticalization: The Semantics of Romance A in Complex Noun Phrases
Prudence de Pontbriand
Missing objects in Early Romance Coordination: Refining the triggering contexts
Peter Herbeck and Natascha Pomino
Morphological transparency of T and analyticization: A view from Catalan
12:25-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00
Patrick Auhagen
The syntactic ambiguity of the relative complementizer donde que in Huari Spanish
Jonas Grünke, Jorge Vega Vilanova, Susann Fischer and Christoph Gabriel
The impact of language contact on the realization of focus in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish
Benjamin Storme
Is French liaison allophony or allomorphy? Evidence from lexical statistics
14:05-14:35
Luis Miguel Rojas Berscia and Gert-Jan Schoenmakers Parasitic gaps in American Romance: An experimental investigation of different varieties of Spanish and French
Jacopo Torregross and Ioli Baroncini
Assessing the acquisition of syntax in the heritage and societal language: Insights from a longitudinal study with Italian heritage children in Greece
Clàudia Pons-Moll and Carla Molas Bolaño
Prosodic weight in Catalan reversible binomials
14:40-15:10
Paolo Lorusso and Linda Badan
Defective phases and clausal embedding in causative constructions.
Noelia Burdeus-Domingo, Anahí Alba de la Fuente and Ismael Iván Teomiro García
Heritage Spanish in Montreal: An Analysis of Clitics in Spontaneous Production Data
Jiaqi Guo and Judith Meinschaefer
Prosodic conditioning in French word part ellipsis
15:05-15:30 Coffee
15:30-16:30 Sylvia Terenghi: Heritage languages and linguistic theory: The view from Romance morphosyntax
16:30-16:45 Short break
16:45-17:15
Vieri Samek-Lodovici
Italian Corrective Questions
Caterina Donati and Carlo Cecchetto
Variation in Romance: Reduced participial structures in Italian and French
Sonia Patrizi and Emanuela Sanfelici
The hierarchy of AdvPs in Italian children’s early production
17:20-17:50
Davide Mocci, Matteo Greco and Andrea Moro
Italian copular sentences as a window into locality
Letizia Raminelli, Desirè Carioti, Jakob Wünsch and Maria Teresa Guasti
Assessing scalar meaning: a first exploratory study on some Italian focus particles
Alice Suozzi, Anna Cardinaletti and Stephanie Durrleman
The Acquisition of Instruments in Italian and the Syntactic Bootstrapping Hypothesis
18:30 Dinner