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Department of Romance Studies

Gabrielle Aguila-Multner

Post-doc at the chair of French of Linguistics (Prof. Dr. E. Stark)

Romanisches Seminar
Zürichbergstrasse 8
CH - 8032 Zürich
+41 (0)44 634 36 27

Büro ZUG F 31

gabrielle.aguila-multner@uzh.ch

Meetings :
Tue: office ZUG F 31
Wed–Fri: Zoom/Teams

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Research interests

In my recent research, I have studied the distribution of French weak pronominals
from a new perspective. Starting from the studies on these forms’ status as lexical affixes
(Miller, 1992; Auger, 1993, 1994, 1995), I have proposed to treat clitic climbing
in morphological rather than syntactic terms. I have formulated an implementation of
Bonami (2015)’s theory of flectional periphrasis in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
(HPSG, Pollard & Sag, 1994). I have proposed that such a notion is both independently
motivated in clitic climbing constructions and sufficient to explain clitic climbing,
which can therefore be treated as an entirely morphological process, in which pronominal
arguments are simply realised on an ancillary element. I have exposed how the
approach generalises to complex predicates. The morphological approach sees complex
predicates as periphrastic causatives similar to Japanese or Bantu synthetic causatives.
I have shown that this perspective, which makes the infinitival verb a causativised form
undergoing valency augmentation, readily results in an implementation of the clause
union effect required to account for various properties specific to complex predicates
(subject realisation, long reflexivisation in se faire).

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References

Auger, Julie. 1993. More evidence for verbal agreement-marking in colloquial French. In William J.
Ashby, Marianne Mithun, Giorgio Perissinotto & Eduardo Raposo (eds.), Linguistic perspectives on
the Romance languages, 177–198. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Auger, Julie. 1994. Pronominal clitics in Québec colloquial French: A morphological analysis: University
of Pennsylvania dissertation. IRCS Report 94-29.

Auger, Julie. 1995. Les clitiques pronominaux en français parlé informel : une approche morphologique.
Revue québécoise de linguistique 24(1). 21–60. doi:10.7202/603102ar.

Bonami, Olivier. 2015. Periphrasis as collocation. Morphology 25(1). 63–110. doi:10.1007/s11525-015-
9254-3.

Miller, Philip H. 1992. Clitics and constituents in phrase structure grammar. Garland, New York.

Pollard, Carl J. & Ivan A. Sag. 1994. Head-driven phrase structure grammar. University of Chicago
Press.

Publications

  • ˆGabrielle Aguila-Multner et Berthold Crysmann (soumis). The morphology of trapping and climbing in French causatives. Abstract soumis à 31st international conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
  • Gabrielle Aguila-Multner (soumis). The morphosyntax of French complex predicates:
    clitic climbing and periphrasis    . Manuscrit soumis à Language Science Press,
    série Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax.
  • Gabrielle Aguila-Multner et Berthold Crysmann (en révisions). Clitic Climbing in French Causatives: Clause Union Inside-Out, soumis à Journal of Linguistics.
  • Gabrielle Aguila-Multner (accepté). L’alternance avoir∼s’être en français : une approche supplétive. Article accepté au Colloque Mondial de Linguistique Française 2024 section Morphologie.
  • Gabrielle Aguila-Multner et Berthold Crysmann (2022). French missing object constructions, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). DOI : 10.16995/glossa.6478.
  • Gabrielle Aguila-Multner et Berthold Crysmann (2020). French clitic climbing as periphrasis, Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43(1). 23–61. DOI : 10.1075/li.00039.agu
  • Gabrielle Aguila-Multner et Berthold Crysmann (2021). An inside-out approach to French causatives. In Stefan Müller & Anke Holler (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 5–25. Stanford: CSLI Publications. DOI : 10.21248/hpsg.2020.1.
  • Gabrielle Aguila-Multner et Berthold Crysmann (2018). Feature resolution by lists: the case of French coordination. In Annie Foret, Greg Kobele & Sylvain Pogodalla (eds). Formal Grammar 2018. Revised selected papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-662-57784-4 1
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Conferences

  • Clause union inside-out: reflexives and medio-passives in French causatives, 28th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), July 28–30 2021.
  • ˆ An inside-out approach to French causatives, 27th International Conference on
    Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), August 17–19 2020, Berlin, Germany.
  • French clitic climbing as periphrasis, 13e Colloque de Syntaxe et S´emantique `a
    Paris 2–4 October 2019, Paris, France.
  • French clitic climbing as periphrasis, 26th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), June 24–26 2019, Bucharest, Romania.
  • Feature resolution by lists: the case of French coordination, Formal Grammar 2018, August 11–12, 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • Feature resolution in French coordination, 25th International Conference on Headdriven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), June 30–July 2 2018, Tokyo, Japan.

Teaching

2023-2024 Introduction à la syntaxe française (Séminaire Bachelor, Universität Zürich)
2023 Introduction à la linguistique française (Séminaire Bachelor, Universität Zürich)
2019-2020 Introduction à la morphologie (TD Master 1 Linguistique, Université Paris-Cité)
Morphologie avancée (TD Master 1 Linguistique, Université Paris-Cité)
2019 Langages formels (TD Master 1 Linguistique informatique, Université Paris-Cité)
Introduction à la linguistique (TD Licence 1, Université Paris-Cité)
2018 Morphologie (TD Master 1, Université Paris-Cité)