Newcastle University, UK

Michelle began working on causative and perception verbs with Sonia a few years ago and they have published a few papers on the topic together focused mainly on Portuguese. More recently she has also worked on causatives in Catalan with Anna Pineda and causative/perception verbs in Italian with Jan Casalicchio and in European Portuguese and French. A lot of this work has focused on passives but she is more generally interested in the syntax and semantics of these verbs. In a current project, she is looking comparatively at the behaviour of locative clitics in Catalan, French and Italian causatives (with both Jan Casalicchio & Sonia Cyrino). 

Personal Website: msheehan.net

Email: michelle.sheehan1@newcastle.ac.uk

University of Bergamo, Italy

From 1997-2024 Adam was (Senior) Lecturer and then Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Since September 2024 he has been Professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Bergamo. His research interests include the comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages, Italian dialectology, Latin, Italo-Greek, syntactic theory, linguistic change and language contact. His research is channelled towards bringing together traditional Romance philological scholarship with the insights of recent linguistic theory. He has worked and published extensively on such topics as complementation, auxiliary selection and split intransitivity, word order, configurationality, alignments, cliticization, clause structure, DOM, verb movement, negation, subjects, causatives, voice distinctions, finiteness, imperatives, deictic systems, grammaticalisation, parameters, and the syntax–phonology and syntax–pragmatics interfaces.

Find out more about Adam's work here

Email: adam.ledgeway@unibg.it 

University of Campinas, Brazil

Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon, Portugal

Sonia Cyrino has an MA in Linguistics (University of Iowa ,1986) and a PhD. in Linguistics (University of Campinas 1994). She was a Professor of Linguistics at the State University of Londrina (1980-2005) and at the University of Campinas (2005-2017), where she has been acting as a Collaborator Professor at the Graduate School since 2017. She was also a Visiting Professor at the State University of Bahia (2020-2022). Since 2024, she has had a Research position at the Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon (2024-2030). Her interests are: comparative syntax of Romance languages, diachronic syntax, and syntax-semantics interface. She has worked on null objects, bare nouns, causative verbs, DOM, verb movement and negation in Brazilian Portuguese, and she has articles published in journals such as Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, The Linguistic Review, Studia Linguistica, Linguistic Inquiry, Journal of Linguistics, and chapters in books published by John Benjamins, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, among others.

Emails: cyrino@unicamp.br scyrino@edu.ulisboa.pt 

University of Edinburgh, UK

Email: rob.truswell@ed.ac.uk

Newcastle University, UK

Giulia is a postodoctoral Research Associate within the CauRPe project since June 2024. She is an expert in Romance linguistics, corpus linguistics, language variation and change, historical (socio-)linguistics. Her current research interests include: clause-combining, morphosyntactic alternations, voice-encoding strategies, stylistic and textual variation, quantitative methods for corpus linguistics. In her PhD research she focused on object complement clauses in the history of Spanish, analysing the alternation between syndetic and asyndetic finite clauses, from a syntactic and sociolinguistic point of view, using corpus data and quantitative methods. In a later project in collaboration with Guglielmo Inglese, she has worked on the anticausative alternation in a comparative historical study of Spanish and Italian, and edited a volume entitled "Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization" (forthcoming). 

Within this research team she is mainly responsible for the data collection and analysis of Ibero-romance and Italo-romance varieties, the statistical analysis and the functional-cognitive account of the phenomena under study.

Find out more about Giulia's work here

Email: giulia.mazzola@newcastle.ac.uk

Newcastle University, UK

Clémentine is a postdoctoral Research Associate within the CauRPe project since October 2024. She started working on Romance causative constructions and on causation for the DFG-funded project « Composing events in Romance causative constructions and the semantics of causation ». As a member of this project, she wrote her PhD dissertation, Letting in Romance, on the syntax and semantics of French and Spanish LET-causatives, under the shared supervision of Bridget Copley and Klaus von Heusinger. Later, she joined the Université Côte d’Azur, where she worked on other types of Romance causative constructions (‘emotive causatives’).

Her areas of expertise are formal semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, and philosophy of language, with a particular focus on how these inform our understanding of how causal relations and agency are encoded in natural language(s). 

Personal Website: clementineraffy.wordpress.com

Email: clementine.raffy@newcastle.ac.uk

Newcastle University, UK

Liam recently completed his master’s dissertation on the Spanish causative verb hacer, with a particular focus on its distinctive behaviour compared to its Romance cognates. This research served as a pilot for his upcoming doctoral investigation, which is currently in the planning stages. As a member of the CauRPe team, Liam contributes to data collection and analysis of causative and perception verbs in both Spanish and Catalan. His prior work includes a sociolinguistic study with Dan Duncan on non-standard personal pronouns in Tyneside English, and a project with Michelle Sheehan and Ioanna Sitaridou on argument structure in UK heritage Portuguese – both of which he recently co-presented at LAGB 2024. 

Personal website: liamgarside.com

Email: l.garside@newcastle.ac.uk