Trinity Forum on Formal Linguistics (TriFFL)
On 28 February 2025, we’ll be holding the inaugural meeting of the Trinity Forum on Formal Linguistics (TriFFL), a mini-workshop on linguistic theory at Trinity which we hope will become a recurring event in the future.
The theme for this first TriFFL is ‘Formal approaches to Italo-Romance languages’. This half-day event will take place in the TRiSS Seminar Room (6th floor, Arts Building) from 13:00 – 18:00 on Friday 28 February. A short program is below; a more detailed program including abstracts for each talk is available here.
- 12:50 – 13:00 Welcome
- 13:00 – 13:45 Simone De Cia (University of Manchester)
- Sovramontino lu: A verum focus expletive
- 13:45 – 14:30 Paolo Acquaviva (University College Dublin)
- Non-canonical definiteness
- 14:30 – 14:45 Coffee break
- 14:45 – 15:30 Valentina Colasanti & Craig Sailor (Trinity College Dublin)
- Some formal properties of gestural polar response markers
- 15:30 – 16:15 Chiara Marchetiello (Trinity College Dublin)
- Parasitic NPI licensing in the visual-gestural modality
- 16:15 – 16:30 Coffee break
- 16:30 - 17:15 Silvio Cruschina (University of Helsinki)
- 'Nobody' has lost gender: the transformations and evolution of the negative indefinite nuddu ‘nobody’ in Sicilian
- 17:15 – 18:00 Bruno Spadi (Trinity College Dublin)
- Manco 'not even' as a focaliser: new evidence from Sicily
For any questions relating to the event, please contact the organizer, Craig Sailor, at craig.sailor@tcd.ie.