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-05346993 v1
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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-03641160 v1

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-01722987 v1

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-01095613 v1

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-01064209 v1

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-00838167 v1

Nominalizations. New Insights and Theoretical Implications.

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare
Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 2011, 40, pp.1-19
Article dans une revue hal-00689717 v1

Nominalizations : Présentation

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare
Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 2011, pp.5-6
Article dans une revue hal-01021353 v1

Nominalizations: new insights and theoretical implications

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare
Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 2011, pp.7-23
Article dans une revue hal-01021334 v1

Body Part Nouns in Expressions of Location in French

Isabelle Roy
Nordlyd, 2006, 33 (1), pp.98-119
Article dans une revue hal-00841851 v1

Le nom de l'adjectif

Hagit Borer , Isabelle Roy
Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 2005, 34, pp.99-124
Article dans une revue hal-00841853 v1

Predicate Nominals in Eventive Copular Sentences

Isabelle Roy
International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology, 2005, pp.213-236
Article dans une revue hal-00841858 v1

Predicate Nominals in Eventive Predication

Isabelle Roy
USC Working Papers in Linguistics, 2004, 2, pp.30-56
Article dans une revue hal-00841866 v1

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-05493616 v1

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-05493628 v1

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-05493645 v1

Production mismatches in the development of recursion in English

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune
Recursion Across Languages: The Intricacies of Babel, Jun 2021, Bucharest, Romania
Communication dans un congrès hal-04374738 v1

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-05493652 v1

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-05494987 v1

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-05493665 v1
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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-04002886 v1

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-05493675 v1

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-05493707 v1

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-04002828 v1

Production Mismatches in the Development of Recursion in English

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune
Workshop Recursion Across Languages. The Intricacies of Babel, U. Bucharest & UMass Amherts, 2021, Bucharest, Romania
Communication dans un congrès hal-05493693 v1

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-03256697 v1

Predication and the ontology of natural languages

Isabelle Roy
Institut d’Etudes Avancées (IEA) de Nantes., 2019, Nantes, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04457490 v1

Grammatical and conceptual ontology

Isabelle Roy
Workshop What is Language?, Dec 2018, Zürich, Switzerland
Communication dans un congrès hal-04457472 v1

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-04457498 v1

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-04457477 v1

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-04457465 v1

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-04457480 v1

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-04457493 v1

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-01658056 v1

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-01708174 v1

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-01336159 v1

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-01336137 v1

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-01199657 v1

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-01658015 v1

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-01199659 v1

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-01658006 v1

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-01658034 v1

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-01658044 v1

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-01220706 v1

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-01057956 v1

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-01336110 v1

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-01095610 v1

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-01018080 v1

Event-related Nominals

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare
Workshop Plurals and Nominalizations, 2013, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-01658073 v1

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-01057957 v1

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-01658050 v1

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-01658068 v1

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-01108394 v1

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-01023749 v1

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-01023743 v1

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-01023720 v1

Deadjectival nominalizations and the structure of the adjective

Isabelle Roy
Paris-Kyoto Semantics Workshop. IHPST, Sep 2010, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-01023698 v1

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-00841814 v1

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-00841856 v1

For Hagit: A celebration

Linnaea Stockall , Luisa Marti , David Adger , Isabelle Roy , Sarah Ouwayda
Queen Mary Working Papers in Linguistics 47, 2022
Ouvrages hal-05488546 v1

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-03928733 v1

La nominalisation. Du fait de syntaxe aux effets de sens

Véronique Magri-Mourgues , Isabelle Roy
2015 (1), 2015, Le Français Moderne
Ouvrages halshs-01198687 v1

Deriving the readings of French "être en train de

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley
2015
Ouvrages hal-01657916 v1

Structuring the Argument

Asaf Bachrach , Isabelle Roy , Linnaea Stockall
John Benjamins, pp.255, 2014, Language Faculty and Beyond
Ouvrages hal-01058025 v1

Nonverbal Predication

Isabelle Roy
Oxford University Press, pp.212, 2013, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 978-0-19-954354-0
Ouvrages hal-00838134 v1

Categorization and Category Change

Isabelle Roy , Gianina Iordachioaia , Kaori Takamine
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.193, 2013
Ouvrages hal-01058028 v1

Nominalizations

Elena Soare , Isabelle Roy
Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, pp.174, 2011, 978-2-84292-335-8
Ouvrages hal-00919395 v1

The grammar of ‘unanalyzable’ sentences in early child language production: Production mismatches in the development of Recursion in English

Isabelle Roy , Bridget Copley , Lorraine Mccune
Recursion Across Languages - The Intricacies of Babel, Springer, In press, 978-3-032-03572-1
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04455697 v1
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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-05488510 v1
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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-03515627 v1
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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-03823679 v1

Humanité et confinement

Isabelle Roy
Covid-19 - Tour du monde, Editions Manucius, pp.212-214, 2021, 9782845 787254
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03958683 v1

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-03256677 v1

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-01336144 v1

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-01371056 v1

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-01095612 v1

Event related nominalizations

Isabelle Roy , Elena Soare
Categorization and Category Change, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.123-152, 2014
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01064208 v1
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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-00723654 v2

Introduction: Part I; Introduction: Part II

Isabelle Roy , Kaori Takamine , Iordachioaia Gianina
Categorization and Category Change, 2013
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01657984 v1
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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-01058029 v1

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-00841801 v1

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-00841796 v1

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-00841806 v1

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-01336154 v1