Amélie Rocquet

Contact information

Hofstraat 329

9000 Ghent (Belgium)

(+32) 0489.11.59.63

amelie.rocquet(at)gmail.com

 

Research interests

Syntax, morphology, morphosyntax 

Semantics: prominence scales (definiteness, specificity, animacy, persons, topicality); Quantifier Raising 

Contrastive linguistics, typology, universals

Differential object/subject marking

Agreement, personal pronouns, evolution of pronouns into agreement markers

Alignments of case marking and verbal phi-marking

Nominal and clausal possession: case marking, HAVE/BE alternations, possessor/possessee agreement 

Dissertation

  • Rocquet, Amélie. 2013. Splitting objects - A Nanosyntactic account of direct object marking. Doctoral dissertation, Ghent University. Available at http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001976 

Publications

Rocquet, Amélie. 2010. Past participle agreement in French: a matter of phases and case-accessibility. In Duk-Ho An & Soo-Yeon Kim (eds): Movement in Minimalism, Proceedings of the 12th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Hankuk Publishing Co.

Rocquet, Amélie. 2014. The discourse-marking effect of strong pronoun doubling in French. To be published in Benjamin Biebuyck & Mieke Van Herreweghe (general eds.) Phrasis: Studies in Language and Literature. Ghent: Academia Press.

Articles in preparation

Split O and get  Φ: The Nanosyntax of French past participle agreement.  

Introduction to Nanosyntax. (Together with Karen De Clercq)

Conference presentations

  • 1 February 2014 - Taal In Nederland Dag - Utrecht (The Netherlands) 

'French as a differential object marking language - A Nanosyntactic perspective on past participle agreement'

  • 6-8 December 2012 - Going Romance - Leuven (Belgium)

'A Peeling account of agreement with a pronominal direct object in Hungarian and French'

  • 12-14 Sept 2012 - CASTL Decennium - Tromsø (Norway)

'A Peeling account of agreement with a pronominal direct object in Hungarian and French'

  • 8-11 September 2011 - Societas Linguistica Europaea 2012 - Logroño (Spain) 

 'The discourse marking effect of phi-doubling in French' 

  • 15-16 April 2011 - Swiss Workshop on Generative Grammar - Geneva (Switzerland) 

 'The discourse marking effect of phi-doubling in French' 

  • 1-3 October - SinFonIJA 3 - Novi Sad (Serbia)

'Past participle agreement in French: A post-syntactic phenomenon'

  • 17-20 August - 12th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar - Seoul (South Korea)

'Past participle agreement in French: A post-syntactic phenomenon'