Programme
| Department of Romance Studies - ROM1 | Organizers: Marco Losavio, Irene Fally, Philippa Adolf, Helena Vaz, Albert Wall |
Please note that the conference timetable is based on Central European Time (CET).
Thursday, September 24, 2026
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome |
| 09:15 - 10:15 | Dante Lucchesi (Universidade Federal da Bahia) Reflexos do contato entre línguas no sistema pronominal do português popular do Brasil (keynote) |
| 10:15 - 10:55 | Tjerk Hagemeijer (ULisboa) The emergence of pronominal systems: the case of the Gulf of Guinea creoles |
| 10:55 - 11:25 | Coffee break |
| 11:25 - 12:05 | Marcelino Issa da Cunha & Djadja Mamadu Baldé (UFRGS) O ensino de pronomes no contexto multilíngue da Guiné-Bissau: entre a política linguística, o crioulo guineense e o material didático |
| 12:05 - 12:45 | Scott Schwenter (OSU) Experimental Evidence for “Mistura Pronominal”: 'a gente' in Non-Subject Functions in Brazilian Portuguese |
| 12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Ana Madeira (UNL) & Rita Gonçalves (ULisboa) Null objects in Santomean Portuguese: Effects of animacy, specificity and definiteness |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | Isaac Souza de Miranda Junior (UFSC) Negative pronominal forms in Brazilian Portuguese: from lexical classes to corpus annotation |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
| 16:20 - 17:20 | Marlyse Baptista (University of Pennsylvania) On the diachronic development of Cape Verdean Creole pronominal systems (keynote) |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
Friday, September 25, 2026
| 09:15 - 10:15 | Pilar Barbosa (Universidade do Minho) Null objects, epithets and logophoricity: an experimental study (keynote) |
| 10:15 - 10:55 | Patrícia Amaral (IU) Ethical datives in European Portuguese: A use-conditional analysis |
| 10:55 - 11:25 | Coffee break |
| 11:25 - 12:05 | Sonia Cyrino (ULisboa/Unicamp) On 3rd person singular null pronominal subjects in Brazilian Portuguese |
| 12:05 - 12:45 | Ronan Pereira (UNL), Mariana Silva, Mónica Pereira (UNL), & Sonia Cyrino (ULisboa/Unicamp) Where can subjects disappear? Null pronominal subjects in Brazilian and European Portuguese subordinate clauses |
| 12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Joana Teixeira, Alexandra Fiéis & Ana Madeira (UNL) Clause order effects on subject pronoun resolution in European Portuguese |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | Julia Bertocchi & Juliette Thuilier (Università di Bologna/ Université Jean Jaurès Toulouse) Alternation between pronoun and null object in Brazilian Portuguese: Disentangling the effects of anaphoric referent semantic properties |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
| 16:20 - 17:20 | Jorge Agulló (University of Cambridge) Clitic doubling in a non-doubling world: Unagreement in Galician (keynote) |
| 17:20 - 17:30 | Closing remarks |