36.3723, Confs: International Workshop on Romance SE/SI Constructions (Spain)

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Date: 02-Dec-2025
From: Anna Pineda [anna.pineda at ub.edu]
Subject: International Workshop on Romance SE/SI Constructions


International Workshop on Romance SE/SI Constructions

Date: 22-Jan-2026 - 23-Jan-2026
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Contact: Anna Pineda
Contact Email: anna.pineda at ub.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Language Family(ies): Romance

Website:
https://filcat.ub.edu/international-workshop-on-romance-se-si-constructions
Room: Sala de Professors (Edifici Josep Carner, 5th floor)
Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació
Universitat de Barcelona
Programme:
Thursday, 22 January 2026
9:15-9:30       WELCOME
9:30-10:30      Invited talk: ALEXANDRA CORNILESCU
 On how dative clitics constrain SE in Romanian
10:30-11:00     IRIMIA, GUARDIANO, STALFIERI, LI DESTRI & LONGHIN
DOM and agreement in SE constructions: the view from southern Italy
11:00-11:30     COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:00     MACDONALD
Impersonal SE and null subjects
12:00-12:30     FOLLI & OLIVIER
Modal meanings of impersonal SI/SE in Italian and French
12:30-13:00     GALLEGO
An agreement accessibility scale for the Variation of non-paradigmatic
SE
13:00-13:30     SCHÄFER, IORDACHIOAIA, MARTIN, MELLONI, VIVANCO
Diagnosing impersonal vs. passive SE/SI constructions via conditionals
13:30-15:00     BREAK (LUNCH)
15:00-15:30     MARTÍNEZ VERA
Semantic underpinnings of aspectual SE in Spanish
15:30-16:00     OLIVER
Grammaticalization and Cyclical Change: rise and expansion of Spanish
aspectual SE
16:00-16:30     MARTÍNEZ VERA, RIVERA, CALPE & GUIJARRO-FUENTES
Aspectual SE, telicity and tense: an experimental approach
16:30-17:00     NISHIDA & RUSSI
How to ‘eat’ without actually ‘eating’: Spanish SE and Italian SI as
an accomplice to verb metaphor
17:00-17:30     COFFEE BREAK
17:30-18:30     Invited talk: JAVIER ORMAZABAL & JUAN ROMERO
SE constructions and scattered agreement
20:00-  CONFERENCE DINNER
Friday, 23 January 2026
9:30-10:30      Invited talk: MICHELA CENNAMO
Semantic constraints on passive and impersonal/indefinite SE in
Romance
10:30-11:00     MAZZOLA & INGLESE
Typological predictions in diachrony: frequency effects on the
anticausative alternation of Italian and Spanish
11:00-11:30     COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:00     AMATO
SI makes unaccusative verbs unergative: the case of Italian pronominal
motion verbs
12:00-12:30     ARMSTRONG
On the syntactic status of subjects in unergative SE constructions:
derived or not?
12:30-13:00     FOLLI, GERARD, HARLEY, LAUZON, MACLEOD
The acquisition of SI with anticausatives and reflexives in Italian
13:00-13:30     MERINO
Decomposing internal causation: SE and the syntax of Voice in
change-of-state verbs
13:30-15:00     BREAK (LUNCH)
15:00-15:30     STORMENT & ORDÓÑEZ
Reflexive and impersonal Voice in Spanish: A smuggling approach
15:30-16:00     BILBAO
Lexical and grammatical reflexives in Basque and its Spanish mirror
16:00-16:30     DUERTO
Between Voice and Presuppositions: The case of se+auto-constructions
in Spanish as evidence for an epiphenomenal account of reflexivity
16:30-17:00     POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK
BLEOTU & IRIMIA — Acquiring reflexivity in Romanian: the use of se and
null objects in child Romanian
RACKOVA — The pronominal construction se voir with the French on: A
corpus-based semantic study using Sketch Engine
17:00-17:15     CONCLUDING REMARKS



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