37.1495, Confs: Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle 9 (France)

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Date: 17-Apr-2026
From: Daniel Harbour [daniel.harbour at cnrs.fr]
Subject: Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle 9

Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle 9
Short Title: RALFe 2026

Date: 03-Jun-2026 - 05-Jun-2026
Location: Paris, France
Contact: Daniel Harbour
Contact Email: ralfeparis26 at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/ralfe2026

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology;
Semantics; Syntax

RALFe 2026, the ninth edition of Rencontres autour de la linguistique
formelle, France’s premier annual conference for formal linguistics,
coorganised by Universités Paris 8 and Paris Cité will take place at
Paris Cité on June 3–5 2026. Registration information will soon be
available via the conference website,
https://sites.google.com/view/ralfe2026. Any updates to running order,
venue specifics, and the like will be found there too.
Our invited speakers are:
 - Colin Phillips (University of Maryland, University of Oxford –
conference)
 - Anamaria Fălăuş (CNRS, Université Nantes – conference)
 - Richard Kayne (New York University – conference)
 - Marijke de Belder (Utrecht University – workshop)
 - Markéta Ziková (Masarykova Univerzita – conference)
The provisional programme is:
Wednesday 3 (workshop)
9:30 Peter Svenonius – Apparent nonlocally conditioned allomorphy in
Somali noun phrases
10:00 Daniel Harbour – Superlinguistics and writing systems: The
Ethiopic script as an Autonomous Language-Like Object
10:30 Noam Faust, Lameen Souag – Allomorphy in Root & Template
morphology
11:00 break
11:30 Ivona Ilic – Absence of suppletion and weak suppletion: Evidence
from pronouns
12:00 Léa Nash, Jérémy Pasquereau – Diagnosing root suppletion:
Evidence from Georgian, Hiaki
12:30 lunch
14:00 Raquel Gonzáles Rodríguez, Laura Ros García – Negation across
domains: The case of no with Spanish -ble adjectives
14:30 Marijke de Belder, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd – Keynote – The past
participle as a relational adjective: evidence from Genemuiden Dutch
15:30 break
16:00 Vassilios Spyropoulos, George Tsoulas – The grammar of Greek
numerals
16:30 Anastasiia Vyshnevska – Suppletion in Ukranian deadjectival
verbs
17:00 Hagit Borer – The DIM View: features, realization, and Content
in the low nominal spine
17:30 short break
17:40 Giovana Abranches – Nonconcatenative verbal allomorphy:
Productivity in Portuguese and in English
18:10 Ana Castro – Allomorph competition in the acquisition of
European Portuguese plural inflection: Evidence from pseudoword
production
18:40 end of workshop
Thursday 4 (conference day 1)
09:30 Colin Phillips – Keynote – Why speaking is better than
understanding
10:30 break
10:50 Paloma Jeretič, Itai Bassi, Aurore Gonzalez, Andreea Nicolae,
Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland – Scalar implicatures beyond
utterable alternatives: evidence from child language acquisition
11:20 Ian Roberts – The Tolerance Principle, Taraldsen’s
Generalisation and the Null-Subject Parameter
11:50 Valentina Bianchi – Wh-movement in copular structures: Evidence
from Italian
12:20 lunch
14:00 Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine – Learning the A- vs Ā-movement
distinction
14:30 Diotima Sakaloglou, Gereon Müller – Double object constructions
in Modern Greek and the timing of A/Ā movement
15:00 break
15:30 Patrick Caudal, Rob Mailhammer – From spatial deictic to event
scalarity operator: The Iwaidja distal
16:00 Valeria Gradimondo, Giorgio Sbardolini – NPI licensing under
quasi-negative adverbs
16:30 posters + refreshments
18:00 Anamaria Fǎlǎuș – Keynote – TBA
19:00 end of conference day 1
Friday 5 (conference day 2)
09:30 Markéta Ziková, Martin Březina – Keynote – TBA
10:30 break
10:50 Giorgio Magri (CNRS–Paris 8) Hayes and Zuraw’s Generalization
simply says that the even constraints don’t matter
11:20 Furkan Dikmen, Lena Baunaz – Truth and realization in
propositional attitudes: French fear-clauses
11:50 Feras Saeed – How adjectival features split in Arabic: A case
for cyclic Agree in the DP
12:20 lunch
14:00 Janek Guerrini – Italian pre-nominal modification as a window
into semantic composition
14:30 Diego Pescarini – Adjectival possessives and (in)definiteness
15:00 break
15:30 Luisa Seguin – Realizing a chain early might save the day: copy
pronunciation, linearization, and island effects
16:00 David Adger, Gillian Ramchand – Two Sources of Linear Order
16:30 posters + refreshments
18:00 Richard Kayne – Keynote – Antihomophony and English of
19:00 end of conference
Posters (Thursday)
Audrey-Ann Gilbert, Manuel Español-Echevarría, Rushen Shi –
Grammatical dependencies and morphosyntactic representation in early
child language
Chang Liu – Looking for gaps in Chinese gapless relative clauses: An
alternative view
Gerhard Schaden, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin – Two types of taxonomic nouns
Julie Goncharov, Thomas Weskott – Accidents welcome: Intentional
actions and polarity licensing
Laura Ros García – The interaction of negation with Spanish
participant deverbal nominalizations
Mauro Viganò, Emanuele Carcano, Adrien Dadone – Passive syntax in sign
languages? Counterevidence from LSF and LIS
Sumedha Gupta – 4Ps in Bangla and a P(ragmatic) account
Sybil Vachaudez, Samantha Prins, Juan Sian Ajsivinac, Carlo Geraci,
Robert Henderson, Jeremy Kuhn – Size-and-class classifiers in Highland
Mayan Sign Language
Tommaso Sgrizzi – Prepositions as sub-eventive probes
Posters (Friday)
Brendan Gillon, David Nicolas, Jonathan Palucci – Covert reciprocals
Carla Soares-Jesel – The acquisition of constructions with infinitives
under perception, causative and object control verbs in L1 French
Gioia Cacchioli – Subordination as relativization: Evidence from
Tigrinya
Katja Friedewald – In between verb and discourse marker: Old Italian
ecco as sentence particle
Lion Oks, Caterina Donati, Francesca Foppolo – Assessing the
interpretation of pronouns in Hebrew: Are resumptives preferred to
full pronouns?
Lyn Tieu, Shawn Lin, Gittel Markman, Adina Camelia Bleotu – Agreement
with disjunctive subjects containing ou and soit ... soit: No evidence
for a role of exclusivity
Petra Sleeman – V-N compounds in French: New evidence for the analysis
of V as an imperative form
Priyanka Gupta – Asymmetry in Hindi-English PPs: Syntax, morphology
and headedness in bilingual Distributed Morphology
Tatiana Bondarenko – PCC effects in Alabama: Appl and v-caus steal
features they cannot expone

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