Presentations

Mazzola, G., Raffy, C., Garside, L. and Sheehan, M. 2025. The syntax of visual and auditory perception along the Binding Hierarchy: an exploratory comparative corpus study of Romance languages. Oral presentation at Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 10-12 September. 

Sheehan, M. 2025. Minimally Required Domains: evidence from causative verbs in Portuguese. Oral presentation at Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Suffolk, 3-5 September. 

Raffy, C. 2025. Does complex syntax always mean complex semantics? A closer look at French complex causatives. Invited talk at Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique, University of Geneva. 

Raffy, C. 2025. Encoding complex causal relations: French Faire-Que constructions. Invited talk at the online seminar Converging on Causal Ontology Analyses (COCOA).

Mazzola, G., Raffy, C., Garside, L. and Sheehan, M. 2025. The syntax of perception along the Binding Hierarchy: an exploratory comparative corpus study of Romance languages. Oral presentation at Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), August 2025. 

Sheehan, M., Mazzola, G., Raffy, C. and Garside, L. 2025. Causation and Perception in Romance: implications for the syntax-semantics mapping. Invited talk at Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Austria, 7 May, 2025. 

Ledgeway, A.,  Schifano, N. and Silvestri, G. 2025. When Greek meets Romance: Processes of Hellenization and Romanicization in southern Italy. Presentation at Transnazionalita e Plurilinguismo, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Lettere, Beni Culturali, Scienze della Formazione, Università di Foggia, 15-16 April 2025.

Sheehan, M. 2025. How many cycles? Is there a v-related phase? If so how big is it? Invited talk at Workshop on Locality, Stony Brook University, 9-11 April, 2025. 

Raffy, C. 2025. Revisiting faire-causatives: mapping morphosyntactic complexity to conceptual complexity. Invited talk at the workshop Cause(e/r), Universität zu Köln, 24-25 January.

Sheehan, M. 2025. The syntax and semantics of causation and perception. Invited talk given at Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics (OASIS) 4, University of York, 15 January 2025.    

Sheehan, M., Garside, L. Cyrino, S., Ledgeway, A. Mazzola, G., Raffy, C. and Truswell, R. 2025. A pan-Romance comparison of causative and perception verbs. Oral presentation at Romance Linguistics Seminar (RLS), Cambridge University, 3 January 2025.

Sheehan, M., Casalicchio, J. and Pineda, A. 2025. Clitic intervention effects: patterns of Romance variation. Oral presentation at Romance Linguistics Seminar (RLS), Cambridge University, 3 January 2025.

Raffy, C. and Cordero-Rull, M. 2024. ‘Extending the causative continuum: faire-que constructions’. Oral presentation at Going Romance 2024, Universidade do Minho, 4-6 December.

Sheehan, M., Casalicchio, J. and Pineda, A. 2024. Clitic intervention effects: patterns of Romance variation. Oral presentation at North East Syntax Seminar (NESS), Newcastle University, December 2024.  

Sheehan, M. and Mazzola, G. 2024. How autonomous is syntax? A micro-syntactic perspective. Invited talk given at the Meaning and Grammar Research Group, Edinburgh University, 5 November.

Sheehan, M. 2024. European Portuguese long passives: understanding the restrictions. Invited talk at University of Siena, 28 October. 

Mazzola, G. and Sheehan, M. 2024. Causation and perception: how similar are they? Invited talk at Philosophy of Linguistics Workshop, Durham University, 22 October. 

Raffy, C. 2024​. Romance LET-causatives: encoding causation by omission. Invited talk at Philosophy of Linguistics Workshop, Durham University, 22 October.

Garside, L. 2024. A socio-syntactic perspective on Spanish causatives: MA thesis presentation. Talk at Language Variation & Change Research Group, Newcastle University, 22 October.

Ledgeway, A. 2024. ‘Cartography and the interfaces: the role of phases in licensing information structure seen through the lens of PF’, Zoom na Cartografia, Univerdade de Campinas and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil (online), 18 April 2024.