Isabelle Roy

Professeure de linguistique
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Affiliations actuelles
  • Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING)
  • Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Publications

Publications

Equative Sentences: Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives

Isabelle Roy , Michael Murez

Annual Review of Linguistics, 2025, 12, ⟨10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011724-121505⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05346993v1
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Arguments and Modifiers in Deverbal Nominals: Romanian Genitives and de-PPs

Elena Soare , Isabelle Roy

Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 2022, 8 (2), pp.1-17. ⟨10.5565/rev/isogloss.133⟩

Article dans une revue hal-03641160v1

La nominalisation. Du fait de syntaxe aux effets de sens - Introduction

Isabelle Roy , Véronique Magri-Mourgues

Le Français Moderne - Revue de linguistique Française, 2015, pp.1-5

Article dans une revue hal-01722987v1

Nominalisations de participes : propriétés verbales et syntaxe interne

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Le Français Moderne - Revue de linguistique Française, 2015, 2015 (1), pp.54-71

Article dans une revue hal-01095613v1

On the internal event properties of -er nominals

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Lingua, 2014, pp.10.1016/j.lingua.2013.11.006

Article dans une revue hal-01064209v1

L'enquêteur, le surveillant et le détenu : les noms déverbaux de participants aux événements, lectures événementielles et structure argumentale

Isabelle Roy , Soare Elena

Lexique, 2012, 20, pp.207-231

Article dans une revue hal-00838167v1

Nominalizations : Présentation

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 2011, pp.5-6

Article dans une revue hal-01021353v1

Nominalizations: new insights and theoretical implications

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 2011, pp.7-23

Article dans une revue hal-01021334v1

Nominalizations. New Insights and Theoretical Implications.

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 2011, 40, pp.1-19

Article dans une revue hal-00689717v1

Body Part Nouns in Expressions of Location in French

Isabelle Roy

Nordlyd, 2006, 33 (1), pp.98-119

Article dans une revue hal-00841851v1

Le nom de l'adjectif

Hagit Borer , Isabelle Roy

Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 2005, 34, pp.99-124

Article dans une revue hal-00841853v1

Predicate Nominals in Eventive Copular Sentences

Isabelle Roy

International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology, 2005, pp.213-236

Article dans une revue hal-00841858v1

Predicate Nominals in Eventive Predication

Isabelle Roy

USC Working Papers in Linguistics, 2004, 2, pp.30-56

Article dans une revue hal-00841866v1

Predication and Modification : Issues for Adjectives and Nouns.

Isabelle Roy

OASIS 4 Conference, York University, Jan 2025, York (United Kingdom), United Kingdom

Communication dans un congrès hal-05493616v1

Adjectives in an adjective-deficient language: Wolof

Víctor Acedo-Matellán , Isabelle Roy

International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification, Nihon University, Nov 2024, Tokyo, Japan

Communication dans un congrès hal-05493645v1

Issues with Adjectives and Nouns in Predication and Modification.

Isabelle Roy

International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification, Nihon University, Nov 2024, Tokyo, Japan

Communication dans un congrès hal-05493628v1

Adjectives in an adjective-deficient language: Wolof

Víctor Acedo-Matellán , Isabelle Roy

21st International Morphology Meeting, Workshop on Adjectives, categorization and argument structure., Vienna University, 2024, Vienna, Austria

Communication dans un congrès hal-05493652v1

Predication, Specification, Equation

Isabelle Roy

General Linguistics Seminar (invitation), Oxford University, 2023, Oxford, United Kingdom

Communication dans un congrès hal-05513676v1

Predication, Specification, Equation.

Isabelle Roy

Séminaire de recherche du Centre Atlantique de Philosophie (CAPhi) (invitation), Nantes Université, 2023, Nantes, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-05513675v1

Identity Sentences

Isabelle Roy

Semantics and Philosophie in Europe (SPE), Special Session on Identity (invited keynote), Université Côte d’Azur, Sep 2023, Nice, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-05494987v1

Predication, Specification, Equation : Nominal copular sentences in search of asymmetry

Isabelle Roy

Workshop on Copular Sentences : Predication, Specification, Equation, Nantes Université, Jun 2022, Paris, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-05493665v1
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Bambara Inverse Copular sentences

Siaka Sangare , Isabelle Roy

Workshop on copular sentences :Predication, Specification, Equation, Isabelle Roy, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes / CNRS, Jun 2022, Paris, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-04002886v1

Inverse copular sentences in Bambara

Isabelle Roy , Siaka Sangare

10th World Congress on African Linguistics (WOCAL 10)., U. Leiden, 2021, Leiden, Netherlands

Communication dans un congrès hal-05493707v1

Production mismatches in the development of recursion in English

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune

Recursion Across Languages: The Intricacies of Babel, U. Bucharest & UMass Amherts, Jun 2021, Bucharest, Romania

Communication dans un congrès hal-04374738v1

Inverted Copular Sentences in Bambara

Isabelle Roy , Siaka Sangare

Association of Contemporary African Linguistics (ACAL 51/52), University of Florida, Apr 2021, Florida / USA, United States

Communication dans un congrès hal-04002828v1

Grammatical ontology: verbal and non-verbal predication and the grammatical - conceptual divide

Bridget Copley , Isabelle Roy

Joint Ontology WOrkshops (JOWO) / Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) / Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BOSK II), University of Bolzano, Sep 2021, Bolzano, Italy

Communication dans un congrès hal-05493675v1

Arguments and modifiers in deverbal nominals: Romanian Genitives and de-PPs

Elena Soare , Isabelle Roy

Going Romance 34, Nov 2020, Paris, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-03256697v1

Predication and the ontology of natural languages

Isabelle Roy

Institut d’Etudes Avancées (IEA) de Nantes., 2019, Nantes, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-04457490v1

On the development of Merge and Recursion in the transition from single words to sentences. Tracking syntactic complexity in early child language

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune

Max Planck Institute colloquium, 2018, Leipzig, Germany

Communication dans un congrès hal-04457498v1

Grammatical and conceptual ontology: the case of derived nominals

Isabelle Roy

Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 1 (OASIS 1), Nov 2018, Paris, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-04457477v1

N-ways of being event related : Nominalizations and the grammatical / conceptual divide

Isabelle Roy

Workshop Bare and not so bare, Queen Mary University of London, Oct 2018, London, United Kingdom

Communication dans un congrès hal-04457480v1

Syntax of ce in French copular sentences

Isabelle Roy , Ur Shlonsky

Workshop on Predication. Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 41), Apr 2018, Budapest, Hungary

Communication dans un congrès hal-04457465v1

The development of syntactic complexity in early child language

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune

Colloquium Université de Genève, 2018, Genève, Switzerland

Communication dans un congrès hal-04457493v1

Grammatical and conceptual ontology

Isabelle Roy

Workshop What is Language?, Dec 2018, Zürich, Switzerland

Communication dans un congrès hal-04457472v1

The development of Merge and recursion in early child language. On the functional/lexical divide

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune

Workshop on the Emergence of Features, Oct 2017, Tromsø, Norway

Communication dans un congrès hal-01658056v1

Grammatical and conceptual knowledge of dispositions in the interpretation of -er nominals : Experimental evidence

Bridget Copley , Isabelle Roy , Saveria Colonna , Sudha Arunachalam

Workshop on the Morphological, Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Dispositions, University of Stuttgart, Jun 2015, Stuttgart, Germany

Communication dans un congrès hal-01708174v1

Aspects of the syntax of 'ce' in French copular sentences.

Isabelle Roy , Ur Shlonsky

9th Days of Swiss Linguistics / 9eme Journées de Linguistique Suisse, Université de Genève, Jun 2016, Genève, Switzerland

Communication dans un congrès hal-01336159v1

Learning to combine words: The development of children’s use of the grammatical operation Merge

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune

International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Jul 2016, Vilnius, Lithuania

Communication dans un congrès hal-01336137v1

The emergence of Merge and recursion as generative processes in early child language

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune

Society for Research on Child Development Biennal Meeting, Mar 2015, Philadelphia, United States

Communication dans un congrès halshs-01199659v1

A measure of syntactic complexity in early child productions : maximal syntactic depth.

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune

TbiLLC 2015 : Eleventh International Tbilissi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, 2015, Tbilissi, Georgia

Communication dans un congrès hal-01658006v1

On the development of Merge and recursion in the transition from single words to sentences

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune

12th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, Sep 2015, Nantes, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-01220706v1

Deriving the readings of French être en train de

Bridget Copley , Isabelle Roy

Going Romance 2013, 27th Symposium on Romance Linguistics, Nov 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands. pp.103-118

Communication dans un congrès hal-01057956v1

On predicative copular sentences, event interpretation and (the absence of) agreement

Isabelle Roy , Ur Shlonsky

Workshop on Copulas Across Languages, 2015, Greenwich, United Kingdom

Communication dans un congrès hal-01658044v1

Reference to dispositions in the interpretation of -er nominals : Experimental evidence from adults and children

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Saveria Colonna , Sudha Arunachalam

Workshop on the Morphological, Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Dispositions, 2015, Stuttgart, Germany

Communication dans un congrès hal-01658034v1

Aspects of the syntax of 'ce' in French copular sentences

Isabelle Roy , Ur Shlonsky

Workshop on Copulas Across Languages, University of Greenwich, Jun 2015, Greenwich, United Kingdom

Communication dans un congrès hal-01336110v1

A measure of syntactic complexity in early child productions : maximal syntactic depth

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune

Workshop "Hard sentences: how to measure syntactic complexity?" - Societá di Linguistica Italiana, annual meeting, Sep 2015, La Valette Malta

Communication dans un congrès hal-01658015v1

The emergence of Merge and recursion in the transition from single words to sentences

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune

12th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, Université de Nantes, Sep 2015, Nantes, France

Communication dans un congrès halshs-01199657v1

Les noms d'humains dérivés de participes : dérivés nominaux en -ant et -é/i/u.

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

4ème Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française, Jul 2014, Berlin, Allemagne

Communication dans un congrès hal-01095610v1

N-ways of being event related

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

JeNom 5 - 5e Journées d’Etude sur les Nominalisations, 2013, Barcelona, Spain

Communication dans un congrès hal-01658050v1

Deriving the readings of French être en train de

Bridget Copley , Isabelle Roy

Tenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Workshop on Aspect, Sep 2013, Gudauri, Georgia

Communication dans un congrès hal-01057957v1

Les propriétés d’événement interne des noms en -er.

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

JET Noms d’humains, 2013, Starsbourg, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-01658068v1

Deriving the readings of French 'être en train de

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley

Going Romance - 27th Symposium of Romance Linguistics, 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Communication dans un congrès hal-01108394v1

The role of structural information in eliciting the 'agent' meaning with -er nominals : Experimental evidence.

Isabelle Roy , Saveria Colonna , Bridget Copley , Sudha Arunachalam

The 5th workshop on nominalizations (JeNom 5), Jun 2013, Barcelona, Spain

Communication dans un congrès hal-01018080v1

Event-related Nominals

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Workshop Plurals and Nominalizations, 2013, Paris, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-01658073v1

The Name of the adjective

Isabelle Roy , Hagit Borer

Workshop on the syntax and the semantics of Nounhood and Adjectivehoo. Barcelona UAB, Mar 2011, Spain

Communication dans un congrès hal-01023749v1

Compositionality in Morphology: a Case Study of French Agent Nominals

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Seminario de Nominalizaciones. UAM, Madrid, Feb 2010, Spain

Communication dans un congrès hal-01023720v1

Deadjectival nominalizations and the structure of the adjective

Isabelle Roy

Paris-Kyoto Semantics Workshop. IHPST, Sep 2010, Paris, France

Communication dans un congrès hal-01023698v1

Naming participants in the event: -ant/-eur/-é nominals in French and compositionality in morphology

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Workshop on Nominalizations. Universitad de Madrid, Feb 2010, Spain

Communication dans un congrès hal-01023743v1

Complex Prepositions

Isabelle Roy , Peter Svenonius

Colloque international de Caen: Autour de la Préposition, Sep 2009, Caen, France. pp.105-116

Communication dans un congrès hal-00841814v1

Non-Verbal Predicates and the Distribution of Ser/Estar in Spanish

Isabelle Roy

Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), 2004, Los Angeles, United States. pp.302-316

Communication dans un congrès hal-00841856v1

For Hagit: A celebration

Linnaea Stockall , Luisa Marti , David Adger , Isabelle Roy , Sarah Ouwayda

Queen Mary Working Papers in Linguistics 47, 2022

Ouvrages hal-05488546v1

Building on Babel's rubble

Nora Boneh , Daniel Harbour , Ora Matushansky , Isabelle Roy

Boneh, Nora; Harbour, Daniel; Matushansky, Ora; Roy, Isabelle. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2022, Sciences du langage, 978-2-37924-235-9. ⟨10.3917/puv.boneh.2022.01⟩

Ouvrages hal-03928733v1

Deriving the readings of French "être en train de

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley

2015

Ouvrages hal-01657916v1

Structuring the Argument

Asaf Bachrach , Isabelle Roy , Linnaea Stockall

John Benjamins, pp.255, 2014, Language Faculty and Beyond

Ouvrages hal-01058025v1

Nonverbal Predication

Isabelle Roy

Oxford University Press, pp.212, 2013, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 978-0-19-954354-0

Ouvrages hal-00838134v1

Categorization and Category Change

Isabelle Roy , Gianina Iordachioaia , Kaori Takamine

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.193, 2013

Ouvrages hal-01058028v1

Nominalizations

Elena Soare , Isabelle Roy

Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, pp.174, 2011, 978-2-84292-335-8

Ouvrages hal-00919395v1

The Grammar of ‘Unanalyzable’ Sentences in Early Child Language Production: Production Mismatches in the Development of Recursion in English

Bridget Copley , Isabelle Roy , Lorraine Mccune

Recursion Across Languages - The Intricacies of Babel, Springer, 2026, 978-3-032-03572-1

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05547939v1
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What's in a copula? —On the lightness of being

Isabelle Roy

The Ziggurat of Grammar. In honor of Ur Shlonsky, 20, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.356-380, 2025, Language Faculty and Beyond, 9789027244307. ⟨10.1075/lfab.20.17roy⟩

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05488510v1
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Penser le monde, parler le monde

Bridget Copley , Isabelle Roy

Un monde commun. Comprendre le monde pour mieux l’habiter ensemble : les savoirs des humanités et des sciences sociales, Institut de Sciences Humaines et Sociales du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2023

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03515627v1
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A dual ontology across the grammatical / conceptual divide

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley

For Hagit: A Celebration, Queen Mary Working Papers in Linguistics 47, 2022

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03823679v1

Humanité et confinement

Isabelle Roy

Covid-19 - Tour du monde, Editions Manucius, pp.212-214, 2021, 9782845 787254

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03958683v1

Agent and other function nominals in a neo-constructionist approach to nominalizations

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Alexiadou, Artemis; Borer, Hagit. Nominalization : 50 years on from Chomsky's "Remarks", 76, Oxford University Press, pp.309-3335, 2020, Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics, 978-0-19-886554-4. ⟨10.1093/oso/9780198865544.003.0013⟩

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03256677v1

Aspects of the syntax of 'ce' in French copular sentences

Isabelle Roy , Ur Shlonsky

The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages, Oxford University Press, 2018, 978-0-19-882986-7

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01336144v1

Les noms d’humains dérivés de participes: nominalisations en –ant et é/i/u

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Actes du Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française 2014 , pp.3197 - 3208, 2014

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01371056v1

Structuring the Argument : Introduction

Asaf Bachrach , Isabelle Roy , Linnaea Stockall

Structuring the Argument : Multidisciplinary Research on Verb Argument Structure, John Benjamins, 2014, Language Faculty and Beyond

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01095612v1

Event related nominalizations

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Categorization and Category Change, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.123-152, 2014

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01064208v1

Introduction: Part I; Introduction: Part II

Isabelle Roy , Kaori Takamine , Iordachioaia Gianina

Categorization and Category Change, 2013

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01657984v1
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Event related nominalizations

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Categorization and Cateogory Change, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.123-152, 2013

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01058029v1
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Event-related Nominals

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare

Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Categorization and category change, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.123-152, 2013, ISBN (10): 1-4438-5140-X

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-00723654v2

The Name of the Adjective

Hagit Borer , Isabelle Roy

Adjectives. Formal analyses in syntax and semantics, John Benjamins, pp.85-113, 2010, Linguistik Aktuell 153

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-00841801v1

Deadjectival nominalizations and the structure of adjectives

Isabelle Roy

The Syntax of Nominalizations across languages and frameworks, De Gruyter Mouton, pp.129-158, 2010

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-00841796v1

Typologie des prédicats non-verbaux dans les phrases copulatives et théorie de la prédication

Isabelle Roy

Prédicats, prédication et structures prédicatives, CRL, pp.131-146, 2009

Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-00841806v1

Grammatical and conceptual knowledge of dispositions in the interpretation of -er nominals : Experimental evidence.

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Saveria Colonna , Sudha Arunachalam

Proceedings of the Workshop on the Morphological, Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Dispositions, 2015, Stuttgart, Germany. pp.92-106, 2016, Proceedings of the Workshop on the Morphological, Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Dispositions

Proceedings/Recueil des communications hal-01336154v1