Publications

 

Books

 

Richard Larson, Viviane Déprez,  Hiroko Yamakido, eds (2010)

            Evolution of language: the biolinguistics perspective

            Cambridge University Press.

 

J. Camacho, N. Flores-Ferran, L. Sanchez, V. Déprez, Maria Cabreras, eds. (2007)

            Romance Linguistics 2006, Selected papers from LSRL 36. J.Benjamin

 

Pica, P. Azoulay. A, Déprez V. (1991)Conférences sur le Gouvernement et le                               

            Liage, Editions du Seuil, Paris. Translation of Lectures on Government and                                   

            Binding: The Pisa Lectures, Noam Chomsky, 1981, Foris: Dordrecht.

 

 

Papers

           

Déprez, Viviane,K. Syrett & S. Kawahara (Accepted) ‘Licensing questions

            with Intonation: The case of French wh-in-situ’. Lingua..

                       

Déprez, Viviane,K. Syrett and S. Kawahara (Accepted) ‘Interfacing Information

            and Prosody: French in-situ-questions’. Proceedings of Going Romance

 

Asya Achimova, V.Déprez, J. Mussolino (in Press) ‘What makes pair-list

            answers available?’ Proceeding of NELS 2010,         

                         

Déprez Viviane, P.Sleeman, H.Guella (in Press) ‘Specificity effects in L2

            determiner acquisition: UG or Pragmatic egocentrism?

            Proceedings of GALANA 2010.

 

Déprez, Viviane. (in Press) ‘Atoms of Negation’ in D. Ingham, P. Larrivée eds.     

            The Evolution of Negation: Beyond the Jespersen Cycle. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

 

Déprez. Viviane. (2010) ‘From N to negative D: charting the time course of the                                         

            historical rise of French n-words’ in, The Noun Phrase in Romance and                             

            Germanic: Structure, Variation and Change, Petra Sleeman, Harry                         

            Perridon, eds. Benjamins. pp 257-280

 

Déprez, Viviane. (2009) ‘(Un) interpretable features and Grammaticalization. in                                       

            Historical Linguistics Today, Selected papers from the 18th International                            

            Conference on Historical Linguistics, Monique Lemieux, Fernande                         

            Dupuis, Etleva Vocal. eds. pp: 83-98 John Benjamins

 

Guella, H. Déprez, V. Reboul, A. (2008) “L’acquisition du trait de genre en                                         

         français L2 ». Cahiers of the French Language Studies Association                                              

         14:1:25-45

 

Guella, H. Déprez,V., Sleeman. P. (2008) ‘Article Choice Parameters in L2.’ In                             

            Roumyana Slabakova, Jason   Rothman, Paula Kempchinsky, and Elena                             

            Gavruseva, eds. Proceeding of 9th Generative Approaches to Second                                  

            Language Acquisition. (GASLA 9)  57-69. Cascadilla Proceedings                                      

            Project, Somerville, MA.USA.

                       

Déprez, Viviane (2008) ‘On the structuring role of grammaticalized morpho-syntactic                              

            features’. In  Emily Elfner, Martin Walkow (eds) Proceeding of NELS 37.                         

            Booksurge LIc

 

Déprez, Viviane (2007) ‘Probing the structuring role of grammaticalization: Nominal

            Constituents in French Lexifier Creoles.’ Journal of Pidgin and Creole                               

            Languages. 22:2, 263-307. J. Benjamin. [pdf]

 

Hoen, Michel, Deprez Viviane, Dominey, Peter. (2007) ‘Do you agree?                                           

            Electrophysiological characterization of online agreement checking                           

            during French passive sentence comprehension.  Journal of

             Neurolinguistics. 20:5 395-421. Elsevier

 

Altshuler, Daniel, Deprez, V. (2007) ‘Parenthetical Null Constructions in                                      

            Romance, in J.Camacho, V.Déprez, N.Flores, L.Sanchez.  Romance                                   

            Linguistgics.    John Benjamin

 

Déprez, Viviane (2007) ‘Implicit determination and Plural’  in M.Baptista & Guéron.J                                         

            eds. ‘Noun Phrases in Creole Languages’. pp. 299-336. John. Benjamins,

 

Véronique Boulenger, Alice C. Roy, Yves Paulignan, Viviane Déprez, Marc Jeannerod 

            & Tatjana , A. Nazir  (2006) ‘Cross-talk between language processes and overt

            motor behavior in the first 200 ms of             processing’.

            Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.18: 10. 1607-1615. MIT Press

 

Déprez, Viviane (2006) ‘On the Conceptual Role of Number’.  In New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics,

            Nishida, Chiyo and Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil (eds.), 67-83. John Benjamins. [pdf]

 

Déprez, Viviane (2005)‘Morphological Number, Semantic Number and bare Nouns’

             Lingua. Volume 115, Issue 6: 857-883 [pdf]

 

Déprez, Viviane and France Martineau. (2004) “Micro-Parametric Variation and                           

            Negative Concord”. In Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics,

            Auger, Julie, J. Clancy Clements and Barbara Vance (eds.), pp.139–158[pdf]

Martineau, France, Déprez, V. (2004)‘Pas rien/Pas aucun en Français Classique’.

            Variation dialectale et historique’, Langue Francaise. 143: 33-47.

 

Corblin, Francis.  Déprez, V. De Swart, H., Tovena, L. (2004) ‘Negative Concord” in                               

            Hand  Book of French semantics . CSLI. Standford University Press.

            De Swart and Corblin. eds. pp. 417-455.

 

Tovena, L. Déprez, V. Jayez J. (2004)  ‘Polarity sensitive items’ in Handbook Of                                    

            French Semantics CSLI. Standford University Press. De Swart and Corblin.                      

            eds. pp. 391-417.

 

Déprez,Viviane., Martineau, F. (2004) ‘Pour une analyse micro-paramétrique de la

            concordance négative’ in Indéfinis et Prédications Francis Corblin, Sylvie

            Ferrando, Lucien Kupferman, éditeurs. Presses Universitaires de Paris-                              

            Sorbonne. pp. 217-233.

                       

Déprez, Viviane (2003)‘Concordance négative, syntaxe des mots-N et variation

             dialectale’ Cahier de Linguistique Francaise. 25 : 97-118.                          

             Faculté des Lettres. Université de Genève [pdf]

 

Michel Hoen, Myriam Golembiowski, Emmanuelle Guyot, Viviane Déprez, David Caplan,

            Peter F. Dominey. (2003) ‘Training with Cognitive Sequence Improves Syntactic

            Comprehension in Agrammatic Aphasics’. Neuro Reports. 14(3): 495-499

 

Nazir, T., Déprez, V. (2003) ‘De l’oral à l’écrit et vice-versa’.Numero Special.                              

            Les Secrets de  l’Intelligence/ Science et Vie 222-223. March

 

Déprez, Viviane (2003) “The Architecture of DP in French Based Creoles”, in 'Romance

            Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001’ Josep Quer, Jan Schroten, Mauro             Scorretti,

            Petra Sleeman and Els Verheugd eds. pp. 49-74. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.   

 

Déprez, Viviane (2003) “Haitian Creole se: a copula, a pronoun, both or neither? On the double life

             of a functional projection” in Recent developments in Creole Studies. D.Adone ed. pp. 137-173.

            Max Niemeyer Verlag. Tubingen. [pdf]

 

Déprez, Viviane (2003) “Constraints on the Meaning of Bare Nouns”. in A Romance Perspective on                               

            Language Knowledge and Use, Current Issues In Linguistics Theory 238,

            Raphael Nunes-Cedeno, Luis Lopez, Richard Cameron eds, pp.291-311. John Benjamins

 

Déprez, Viviane (2001) ‘On the nature of Bare Nouns in Haitian Creole’ in Current Issues in

            Linguistics Theory. D.Cresti. C.Tortora.and T.Satterfield eds. 47-64. John Benjamins

 

Déprez, Viviane (2000) ‘Parallel (A)symmetries and the Intrernal Structure of Negative Expressions’      

            Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 18.2: 253-342 Kluwer. pdf]

 

Déprez, Viviane (1999) ‘The Roots of Negative Concord in French and French Based Creoles’, in

            Language Creation  and Language Change: Creole, Diachrony and Development,. 375-428,

            MIT Press. Michel DeGraff. Ed.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1999) ‘De la nature sémantique des nominaux sans déterminant en créole haitien’

            in Langues 2.4: 289-300. John Libbey Eurotext, Agence Universitaire de La Francophonie.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1999) ‘Empirical quicksand or Empirical smokescreen?” Journal of Pidgin and

            Creole Languages 14:2. 351-357. John Benjamin, Amsterdam.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1998) ‘Semantic Effects of Agreement: The case of French participle agreement”,

             Probus 10.1:1-67 Walter De Gryuter.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1997) ‘Two types of Negative Concord’, Probus 9.2: 103-142 Walter de Gruyter.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1997) ‘A non Unified Analysis of Negative Concord’, in The syntax and

            semantics of Negation, Hirschbulher P. and Martineau F.eds, 53-74. John                          

            Benjamin, Amsterdam.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1997) ‘Predicative Constructions and Functional Categories in Haitian Creole’,

            Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12.2 : 1-32,  John Benjamin, Amsterdam. with M.T Vinet

 

Déprez, Viviane (1996) ‘Agreement, Specificity and Impersonal Constructions’ in  

            Aspect of Romance Linguistics 161-175. Claudia Parodi, Carlos Quicoli, Mario                              

            Saltarelli and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta eds, Georgetown University Press.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1995) ‘Sous-Spécification, Projections Fonctionelles et Fixation des Paramètres’,                                  

            Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes 24: Grammaire Universelle et Acquisition du Langage,

             177- 207, Celia Jakubovitz ed, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, Paris.

 

Déprez,Viviane (1994) ‘Haitian Creole: a Pro‑drop language ?”, Journal of Pidgin and Creole

            Language, 9:1:1-24, John Benjamin B.V, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

 

Déprez,Viviane (1994) ‘Questions with Floated Quantifiers’, Proceeding of the VI th

            Conference on Semantics and Linguistics Theory 97- 113, SALT.

            Mandy Harvey, Lynn Santelmann eds. Cornell University.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1994) ‘Pair-list Answers with Floated Quantifiers”, Proceedings of the West Coast

                        Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 13) 150-165, 1994

 

Déprez, Viviane (1994) ‘A Minimal Account of  the That‑t Effect”, Paths towards Universal

            Grammar: Studies in Honor of Richard S.Kayne, Guglielmo Cinque, Jan Koster,

            Jean-Yves Pollock and Raffaella Zanuttini, eds. pp 121-135, Georgetown University Press

 

Déprez, Viviane (1994) ‘Parameters of Object movement”, in Studies on Scrambling, 102-152.

            N.Corvert and H.Van Riemsdik eds, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1994) ‘Underspecification, Functional Projections and Parameter Setting”, in

            Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross Linguistic Perspective, 249-273,

            B.Lust, J.Kornfilt, and J. Whitman eds, Erlbaum.

 

Déprez, Viviane, Amy Pierce (1993) ‘Negation and Functional Projections in Early Grammar”, Linguistic                                   

            Inquiry, 24:1, 25‑67, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1993) ‘The Weak Island Effect of Floating Quantifiers’, University of Massachusetts

            Occasional Papers, 23: 53-79. E. Benedicto and J.Runner eds, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1993) ‘The Role of Agreement for Government’, Proceedings of XI th West

            Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 148‑160 (WCCFL 11) Jonathan Mead ed.,

            Stanford Linguistics Association.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1992) ‘Raising Constructions in Haitian Creole’, Natural Language & Linguistic

            Theory: 10:2: 91‑231, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1992) ‘Une Structure Prédicative sans Copule”, La Revue Québécoise

             de Linguistique, 22:1,11‑44.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1992) ‘Is Haitian Creole Really a Pro‑drop Language?”, Travaux de Recherche sur

            le Créole  Haitien,11: 23‑41, Université du Québec à Montréal.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1991) ‘Economy and the That‑t Effect’, Proceeding of the Western Conference on

            Linguistics, (WECOL) 4: 74‑87,K. Hunte, T.Perry and V.Samiian eds., California State University

 

Déprez, Viviane (1991) ‘WH‑movement: Adjunction and Substitution’, Proceedings of the Xth

            West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 10: 103‑114 in Dawn Bates ed.,

            Stanford Linguistics Association.

 

Déprez,Viviane (1990) ‘Two Ways of Moving the Verb in French”, in Papers on Wh-movement:

            MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 13: 47‑85, L.Cheng and H.Demirdache.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1989) ‘Stylistic Inversion and Verb Movement”, Proceedings of the Fifth Eastern

            States Conference on Linguistics:71-82, Joyce Powers and Kenneth de Jong Eds,

            The Ohio States University.

 

Déprez, Viviane (1988) ‘Complex Segments in Georgian’, Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting

            of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS 18), 7: 109‑123,

            University of Massachusetts Amherst.

 

Déprez, V. Hale, K. (1986) “The Landing Sites of Resumptive Pronoun Objects in           

            Irish”, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 5:38‑47,

            Paul Jefferis and Williams J.Mahon eds.

 

 

Selected Conferences and Invited Presentations  

 

2011       ‘Online monitoring of the impact of language processing on motor processes:               
               prehensile grip-force measures during passive listening of manual action words and 
               sentences.’  Aravena, P., Delevoye, Y., Frak, V., Deprez, V., Paulignan, Y., Cheylus, A., 
               Nazir, T. The third Neurobiology of   Language Conference November 10-11 2011 Annapolis   http://www.neurolang.org/home.php
 
             ‘Specificity and Definiteness in French Based Creoles and L2 French’ Workshop on Creole
              Grammars and Linguistic Theories, University Diderot, June 23-24.Paris
        http://sites.google.com/site/grgcworkshop2011/programme
 

 

 

2010    ‘Intonation in questions: the case of French wh in situ. Going Romance 24

            Viviane Deprez, Kristen Syrett, Shigheto Kawahara. December 9-12

            University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands.

 

            ‘What  makes Pair-lists available? An Experimental Approach’.
            Asya Achimova, Viviane Déprez, Julien Musolino. NELS 41. University of Pensylvania.

 

            ‘Licensing with Intonation: The case of French wh-in-situ’
            Viviane Déprez, Shigeto, Kawahara, Kristen Syrett, Natalie Blanc, Kristen Lew,   
            Yevgen Mustafayev. September 17-18.  WPSI IV,    Workshop on Prosody,
            Syntax and Information. University of Delaware

 

            ‘Specificity effects in L2 determiner acquisition: UG or Pragmatic egocentrism?
            V.Déprez. P.Sleeman, H. Guella,. GALANA 4, September 1-3. University of Toronto, Canada.

 

            Invited Speaker ‘Grammaticalization as feature uninterpretability :

            the force of cooperation in language evolution. Déprez, V. International Workshop on Grammaticalization’.        

            August 27-28. Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo   Horizonte, Brazil.

            http://www.letras.ufmg.br/gramaticalizacao/ingles/comi        ssaocient.html

 

            ‘Revisiting wh-quantifier interactions: what can an experimental approach tells us about grammar’. A. Achimova, V. Déprez,    J.Mussolino. Fourth International      Conference on Cognitive Science, June 22-26, 2010, in Tomsk, Russia.

            http://www.cogsci2010.ru/eng/

 

            ‘The grammaticalization of number and definitness in French Based Creoles.’

             Rencontres Créoles, Université de Paris VIII-St-Denis May 31 2010

 

           ‘The intonation of French Wh-Questions’. Blanc, Natalie, Kristen Lew, Yevgen  Mustafayev,

             Viviane Déprez, Shigeto Kawahara, Kristen Syrett (2010) ARC Undergraduate Research Symposium. April 23rd, 2010.

 

2009    Innovative linguistic and cultural practices by the use of TICE: the acquisition of  

            French determiners by Arabic learners. Dworczak.F, Guella H. & Déprez V.  Société de Neurosciences, 9eme colloque,   Bordeaux, France. Poster. May26-29

             

            Grasping Syntax. Morris Symposium on Language and Communiction: Language and the Motor System . SUNY, Stony                        Brook. May 29-31. Alice Roy, Viviane Deprez ISC, L2C2. CNRS.

 

            On the structuring role of Grammaticalized Morpho-syntactic features: Number and Definiteness in French Based Creoles. Eighth        Creolistics Workshop Pidgins and creoles in a comparative perspective, University of Giessen,    Germany. April, 3-5.

           

2008    The micro-grammaticalization of French N-words. Cycles of Grammaticalization, Aston University,

            Birmingham, England. December 6th

 

            Number Marking and definiteness in French Based Creoles, , Formal approaches to

            Creole Languages, Center for Advanced Studies in Theoretical LinguisticsTrømsø, Norway, November 14-15

 

            ‘Pour une Approche Conceptuelle du Nombre en Créole Haitien’ University of Paris 8, Vincennes. June 8th

           

2007    Invited Speaker, HOWL 4, Hopkins Workshop on Language, Hopkins University,            October, 13-14 th.Baltimore

            Linguistic number and object recognition: could they have anything in common ?   

 

            Invited Speaker ‘Grammaticalicalization du nombre et des définis’ 18th International Conference on

            Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 6-11 Aout 2007. Université du Quebec à Montréal (UQUAM)

           

            ‘On the conceptual role of number marking’, Society of Pidgin and Creole   Languages, annual meeting Amsterdam, June 18- 21

 

            Definiteness-based L1/L2 and Specificity Effects GASLA 9 (Generative     Approaches to Second Language Acquisition) May 18-20,   with H. Guella and P.Sleeman 

 

 

In progress     ‘Questions with Floated Quantifiers’, ms. previously accepted with revisions in Natural Language Semantics,
                       Kluwer Dordrecht. [pdf]

(To appear)    ‘Probing the structuring role of grammaticalization: Nominal Constituents in French Lexifier Creoles’,
                       Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, John Benjamin.
(To appear)    ‘On Conceptual Number’ in C. Nishida and J.P Montreuil (eds.).

2004a.            ‘Morphological Number, Semantic Number and bare Nouns’, Lingua 6: 857-883.
2004b.            Déprez, V. and Martineau, F. ‘Micro-parametric variation and Negative Concord’, in
                       Contemporary Approaches to Romance  Linguistics, Auger, J., J. C Clements and B.Vance (eds.) 
                       Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 258: 139-158, John Benjamin.

2004c.            Corblin, J.,  Déprez, V., De Swart, H., Tovena, L. 'Negative Concord' in Handbook of French semantics,
                       De Swart and Corblin (eds.), CSLI, Standford University Press, pp. 417-455. 
 
2003a.            ‘Concordance négative, syntaxe des mots-N et variation dialectale’ Cahier de Linguistique Francaise 25 : 97-118,
                       Faculté des Lettres, Université de Genève.
2003b.            ‘Haitian Creole se: a copula, a pronoun, both or neither’, in Recent developments in Creole Studies,
                       D.Adone ed., Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tubingen, 135-173.

2003c.            Michel Hoen, Myriam Golembiowski, Emmanuelle Guyot, Viviane Déprez, David Caplan, Peter F. Dominey,
                       'Training with Cognitive Sequence Improves Syntactic Comprehension  in Agrammatic Aphasics',
                       Neuro Reports 14(3): 495-499.

2000.              'Parallel (A)symmetries and the Structure of Negative Expressions', Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
                       18.2: 253-342, Kluwer.