Publications

Related works by project members

2025

Espinal, M.T. & Cyrino, S. 2025. Experiencers at the syntax-pragmatics interface. The case of the jo ‘I’ – construction in Catalan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 10(1), 1–33.https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.17284

Casalicchio, J. & Sheehan, M. 2025. Passives of causatives and perception verbs in Italian. Accepted to appear in Linguistic Inquiry.  

2024

Bárány, A. and Sheehan, M. 2024. Challenges for dependent case. In E. Anagnostopoulou, D. Mertyris & C. Sevdali (eds.), On the place of case in grammar. Oxford University Press.

Garside, L. 2024. A socio-syntactic perspective on Spanish causative verbs. MA dissertation. Newcastle University. 

Ledgeway, A., Schifano, N. Silvestri, G. 2024. Patterns of infinitival and finite complementation in Griko and Salentino. In M. Loporcaro, F. Breimaier, and S. Negrinelli (eds.), Atti del convegno: I dialetti di Puglia e Salento: due diverse facce del Meridione, special issue of L’Italia dialettale 85:101-122.

Raffy, C., Donazzan, M. and Heusinger, K. von, 2024. The syntax and semantics of laisser in causative constructions: An experimental investigation. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, [online] 10(4), pp.1–39. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.320. 

Sheehan, M. and Cyrino, S., 2023. Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account. Linguistic Inquiry 55 (4): 769–803. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00482. 

2023

Pineda, A. and Sheehan, M. 2023. A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire-infinitive causative: New evidence from Catalan. Syntax 26(2): 183-222.

2022

Cyrino, S. and Sheehan, M. 2022. Alignment. Accepted to appear in A. Ledgeway & M. Maiden (eds.), 544-570, Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics. CUP.

Espinal, M.T. nd Cyrino, S. 2022. A syntactically-driven approach to indefiniteness, specificity and anti-specificity in Romance. Journal of Linguistics 58(3): 535 - 570. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002222672100030X

Espinal, T. and Cyrino, S. 2022. The status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and pseudopartitives. Studia Linguistica 76(1): 167–211. https://doi.org/10.1111/stul.12184

Pineda, A. and Sheehan, M. 2022. When Restructuring and Clause Union Meet in Catalan and Beyond. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 21: 109-128.

2021

Ledgeway, A. 2021. The syntactic distribution of raddoppiamento fonosinttatico in Cosentino: A phase-theoretic account. In Adina Dragomirescu & Alexandru Nicolae (eds), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from Going Romance 31, Bucharest. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 205-37.

Raffy, C. 2021. Letting in Romance. PhD dissertation. Université Paris 8 & Universität zu Köln.

2020

Ledgeway, A. 2020. The causative construction in the dialects of southern Italy and the phonology-syntax interface. In Giulia Bellucci, Ludovico Franco & Paolo Lorusso (eds), Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation (Studies in Generative Grammar). Berlin: de Gruyter, 371-400.

Ledgeway, A., Schifano, N. Silvestri, G. 2020. I costrutti causativi nelle varietà romanze e greche della Calabria meridionale. In Patrizia del Puente, Francesca Guazzelli, Lucia Molinu & Simone Pisano (eds), Tra etimologia romanza e dialettologia. Studi in onore di Franco Fanciullo. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 203-17.

Donazzan, M., Raffy, C. and von Heusinger, K. 2020. Causation and dispositions: towards a semantic characterization of the French verb laisser. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 22, 55-75. https://doi.org/10.31178/bwpl.22.2.3

Sheehan, M. 2020a. The development of Exceptional Case Marking in Romance with a particular focus on French. Probus 32(2): 367-400. 

Sheehan, M. 2020b. The Romance Person Case Constraint is not about clitic clusters. In A. Pineda & J. Mateu (eds.). Dative structures in Romance and beyond (Open Generative Syntax). Berlin: Language Science Press, 143-171.

Older work (in reverse chronological order)

Cruschina, S. Ledgeway, A. & Remberger, E-M. 2019. The dialects of Italy at the interfaces. In Silvio Cruschina, Adam Ledgeway & Eva-Maria Remberger (eds), Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-39.

Cruschina, S. Ledgeway, A. & Remberger, E-M. (eds.) 2019. Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today). Amsterdam: Benjamins 

Ledgeway, A. 2018. Phonological correlates of syntactic structure: The distribution of raddoppiamento fonosintattico in Calabrian. In Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco & Benedetta Baldi (eds), Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond. In Honour of Leonardo M. Savoia (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 283-96.

Schifano, N. and Sheehan, M. 2018. Italian faire-infinitives: the special case of volere. In M. Grimaldi, R. Lai, L. Franco and B. Baldi (eds.), Structuring variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 161-175.

Espinal, M.T. and Cyrino, S. 2017. On weak definites and their contribution to event kinds. In O. Fernández Soriano, E. Castroviejo & I. Pérez (eds.) Boundaries, Phases, and Interfaces. Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, p. 133-154. 

Ledgeway, A. 2016. Clausal complementation. In A. Ledgeway & M. Maiden (eds.), 1013-28. The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sheehan, M. 2016. Complex predicates. In A. Ledgeway & M. Maiden (eds.), 981-993. The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sheehan, M. and Cyrino, S. 2016. Variation and change in the faire-par causative. In E. Carrilho, A. Fiéis, M. Lobo & S. Pereira (eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 279-304. John Benjamins.

Cyrino, S. and Espinal, M.T. 2015. On the structure of bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese, in T. Ihsane & J. Smith (ed.). Romance Linguistics 2012. Selected papers of the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL42). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. p. 215-228. doi 10.1075/rllt.7.14cyr 

Ledgeway, A. 2014. Il costrutto causativo meridionale: Un caso di destrutturazione? In Patrizia Del Puente (ed.), Atti del II Convegno internazionale di dialettologia – Progetto A.L.Ba. Rionero in Vulture: Calice Editore, 143-78.

Hinzen, W. and Sheehan, M. 2013. The Philosophy of Universal Grammar. OUP (reviewed in Mind).

Cyrino, S. 2010. On complex predicates in Brazilian Portuguese. Ibéria- International Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. 2(2): 1-21. ISSN: 1989-8525. Available at: http://www.siff.us.es/iberia/index.php/ij/article/view/19/35