[PLing] Invitation: VPL 3 Mapping pronouns across the lusophone world, Sept. 24th & 25th

[Irene Fally]

Dear colleagues,

we would like to draw your attention to the third Vienna Workshop on Portuguese linguistics "Mapping pronouns across the lusophone world" that will be held at the department of Romance Studies from Sept. 24th to 25th.  Below you find the program of the event. Attendance is free, but we would kindly ask you to register by Sept. 20th, particularly if you wish to join the conference dinner: https://vpl.univie.ac.at/registration/.

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 <https://vpl.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_vpl/VPL3_Hagemeijer.pdf>

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 <https://vpl.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_vpl/VPL3_Madeira%20&%20Gonçalves.pdf>

15:10 - 15:50

Isaac Souza de Miranda Junior (UFSC)
Negative pronominal forms in Brazilian Portuguese: from lexical classes to corpus annotation <https://vpl.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_vpl/VPL3_Miranda%20Jr.pdf>

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 <https://vpl.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_vpl/VPL3_PAmaral_Ethical%20datives%20in%20EP.pdf>

10:55 - 11:25

Coffee break

11:25 - 12:05

Sonia Cyrino (ULisboa/Unicamp)
On 3rd person singular null pronominal subjects in Brazilian Portuguese <https://vpl.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_vpl/VPL3_Cyrino_On%203rd%20person%20null%20pronouns_final_non-anonymous.pdf>

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 <https://vpl.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_vpl/VPL3_Pereira_et_al_2026.pdf>

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 <https://vpl.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_vpl/VPL3_Teixeira%20Fieis%20&%20Madeira.pdf>

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 <https://vpl.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_vpl/VPL3_Bertocchi%20et%20al._Obj_null_Semantic_features.pdf>

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



Kind regards,
Irene Fally (on behalf of the organizing team)

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MMag. Dr. Irene Fally, BA
Institut für Romanistik
Raum: 3B-02-30 A (2.Stock)
Universität Wien
A-1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
T: +43-1-4277-426 18
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/irene.fally/

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