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       A. Books

• Avram,  L.   1999. Auxiliaries and the Structure of Language,  Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti (Philologica Bucurestiensia 4).
• Avram, L. 2002. An Introduction to Language Acquisition from a Generative Perspective, Editura Universităţii  din Bucureşti, Bucharest.
• Avram, L. 2003. English Syntax: The Structure of Root Clauses, Oscar Print, Bucharest.
• Avram, L. 2006. English Syntax: The Structure of Root Clauses [revised edition] Oscar Print, Bucharest.
• Alboiu, G., Avram, A., Avram, L., D. Isac (eds.) 2007. Pitar Mos: A Building with a View. Papers in Honour of Alexandra Cornilescu, Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, Bucharest.    

      B. Refereed articles in journals and edited volumes

      

       2009

• Avram, L., Coene, M. 'Null objects and Accusative clitics in Romanian.' Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics vol. XI (1): 233-252.

          2008

• Avram, L., M. Coene 'Romanian possessive clitics revisited'. In Dalina Kallulli, Liliane Tasmowski (eds.) Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages, pp. 359-386. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Avram, L., M. Coene ‘Can children tell us anything we did not know about parameter clustering?’. In Theresa Biberauer (ed.) The limits of syntactic variation, pp. 459-482. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Avram, L. , M. Coene ‘The Modal Reference Effect: the case of early verbal forms in Romanian’. A. Gavarro, M. J. Freitas (eds.) Language Acquisition and Development. Proceedings of Gala 2007, 57-69, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publ.

          2007

• Avram, L., V. Hill. ‘An irrealis be in auxiliary in Romanian’. In Raul Aranovich (ed.) Split Auxiliary Systems: A Cross-linguistic perspective, pp. 47-64. Amsterdam:  John Benjamins. 
• Avram, L., Coene, M.  'Object clitics as last Resort: implications for language acquisition'. In S.  Baauw, M. Pinto, J. van Kampen, M. Pinto  (eds.) The Acquisition of Romance Languages. Selected Papers from the Romance Turn II, Utrecht: LOT (LOT Occasional Series 8), pp. 7-26.
•  Avram, L., Coene, M.  'Root infinitives in a null subject language: Romance in the Balkans'. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics IX (1): 231-242.

          2006

• Avram, L., Coene, M.  ‘The Complementizer Phrase in child Romanian: an early discourse-anchor’. In Adriana Belletti, Elisa Bennati, Cristiano Chesi, Elisa DiDomenico, Ida Ferrari (eds.) Language Acquisition and Development. Proceedings of GALA2005, 29-35, Cambridge Scholars Publ.

        2005

• Avram,L., Coene, M.  ‘On the acquisition of finiteness’. In M. Coene, L. Tasmowski (eds.) On the Expression of Time and Space, 151-172, Clusium.
• Avram, L., Coene, M.  'The relationship between the I-domain and the C-domain. The view from acquisition'. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics VII (1): 173-187.

        

        2004

• Avram, L., M. Coene 'What early clitics can tell us about early subjects’. In J. van  Kampen, S. Baauw (eds.)  Proceedings of Gala 2003, 93- 102, UiL LOT, Utrecht// lotos.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000026/bookpart.pdf
• d’Hulst, Y., M. Coene, L. Avram, L. Tasmowski ‘Morphology and tense anchoring in the Romanian tense system’.   In J. Guéron, L. Tasmowski (eds.) Tense and Points of View, Paris, Université Paris X, p. 167-184.//
• Coene, M., Y. D’Hulst, L. Avram ‘Future and Future in the Past Readings in Romanian'. In Olga Tomic (ed.)    Balkan Linguistics, 355 – 374, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  
• Avram, L., Coene, M. 'From feature selection to feature valuation: the case of early articles and Accusative clitics in child Romanian’. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics  VI (1).

          2003

• Avram, L., M. Coene ‘Why is it difficult to reach agreement?” In Perez-Leroux A.T, Y. Roberge (eds.) Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition, vol. 2, 247- 262, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Avram, L. ‘An Aspectual Analysis of Gerunds’. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique XLVIII, 203-219.

          2002

• Avram, L., Coene, M.  ‘Genitive/Dative Clitics as Last Resort’,  Balkanistica 15: 1-34.
• Coene, M., Avram, L. ‘On the Acquisition of Reference in early child Romanian',  Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics IV (1): 114- 129.

          2001

• Avram, L. ‘Early omission of articles in child Romanian and the emergence of DP'. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique XLVI, 1-4, 105-123.
• Avram, L. ‘Remarks on the optional clitic stage in child Romanian'. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics III (1): 16-28.

          2000

• Avram, L. ‘O analiză minimalistă a cliticelor în acuzativ din limba romană’ (A minimalist analysis of Accusative clitics in Romanian)  Studii şi cercetări lingvistice LI (1):33-47.
• Motapanyane, V., L. Avram 'The Syntax of putea and its Mixed Typology', Belgian Journal of Linguistics 14, 145-161.
• Avram, L. ‘From possessive clitics to object clitics: a unifying analysis”. In L. Tasmowski (coord.) The Expression of Possession in Romance and Germanic Languages, Clusium, Cluj, 83-100.
• Avram, L. ‘Why Attract α  is  attractive’. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics II (1): 51-61.

        1999 and earlier

• Motapanyane, V. & L. Avram (1999) ‘A Romanian modal: at the cross-roads between Romance and Balkan’, Revue Roumaine de Linguistique  XLIII, 5/6: 373-386.
• Avram, L. (1999) ‘Possessive Clitics in Romanian’, Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics I (1): 11-24.
• Avram, L. (1998)  ‘Remarks on the English Modals’, University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics 6: 12-32.
• Avram, L. (1998) ‘Romanian HAVE: Merge and Reconsider’, Revue Roumaine de Linguistique  1-2: 65-92.
• Avram, L. (1994) ‘A contrastive analysis of modals in English and Romanian’ , Revue Roumaine de Linguistique  3/4:  267-284 .
• Avram, L.  (1994) ‘Auxiliary configurations in English and Romanian’ , Revue Roumaine de Linguistique  5/6:493-510.
• Avram, L.  (1993) ‘Lexical and functional categories‘, Revue Roumaine de Linguistique  6:517-52
• Avram,L.  (1992) 'A minimalist approach to subject positions in Romanian‘, Cahiers de linguistique théorique et appliquée, XXXIX,  121-128.
• Avram, L. (1989) ‘Despre verbele de modalitate în romană’ (On Romanian modals), Studii şi Cercetări de Lingvistică  3: 203-206.
• Avram, L. (1989) ‘Verbes de modalité en roumain’, Bulletin de la Société Roumaine de Linguistique Romane, Bucharest,   27-35.  
• Avram, L. (1988) 'Verb auxiliar’ în limba romana:categorie lexicală sau morfem gramatical?’ (Auxiliary verb in Romanian: lexical category or grammatical morpheme?,  Studii si Cercetari de Lingvistica 5:439-445.
• Avram, L. (1987) ‘The Romanian Prezent and the Norwegian Presens. A semantic description’,  Revue Roumaine de Linguistique  3:207-212.
• Avram, L. (1986) 'A few remarks on futurity in Romanian,’  Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 5:303-307.
• Avram, L. (1984) ‘Generic and habitual sentences’ , Revue Roumaine de Linguistique  2:181-185.
• Avram, L. (1984) ‘A few remarks on tense and aspect in Romanian’, Revue Roumaine de Linguistique  6: 537-545.

 

 C. Non-refereed articles

• Avram, L. (1999) ‘To have or to be?’. In Coene, M., De Mulder, W., Dendale, P. & Y. D’Hulst (eds) Traiani Augusti Vestigia Pressa Sequamur.Studia lingvistica in honorem Lilianae Tasmowski, Padova: Unipress, 371- 391. [also published in De bezitsrelatie/Relatia de posesie, Instituut voor Roemenie Studies Universiteit Antwerpen-UIA, 373-391]
• Avram, L. (1999) ‘Masculine and Feminine Clitics. An Acquisition Account’, Analele Universităţii din Bucureşti. Limbi    Straine, XLVIII, 41-50.
• Avram, L. (2002) ‘Remarks on the Double Object Construction”. In  Analele Universităţii Creştine Dimitrie Cantemir, 1:16-21.
• Avram,  L. (2002/2003) ‘Middles and the construal of events’, Buletin Stiinţific. Fascicula Limbi Moderne, Universitatea de Nord din Baia Mare Analele Universităţii din Baia Mare, Seria A, vol. XVI, 9-37.

• Avram,  L. (2002/2003) ‘Middles and the construal of events’, Buletin Stiinţific. Fascicula Limbi Moderne, Universitatea de Nord din Baia Mare Analele Universităţii din Baia Mare, Seria A, vol. XVI, 9-37.

• Flagner, H., L. Avram (2003)  ‘Die Kategorie Genus im Erwerb des Deutschen als früher Zweitsprache’. Zeitschrift der Germanisten Rumäniens 2003, Paideia, Bucureşti.

• Flagner, H., L. Avram (2005) 'The Acquisition of Gender in L2 German'. Analele Universităţii  din Bucuresti. Limbi si Literaturi Străine.

       D.Recent  paper/poster presentations

• Coene, M., L. Avram 'Accusative object clitics are not all alike'. Jahrestagung der DGfS, 4-6 March 2009,Universität Osnabrück , AG 3 Production-comprehension asymmetries in child language https://www.dgfs.de/remarks/d1/rm205.pdf.
• Sevcenco, A., I. Stoicescu, L. Avram 'The subject/direct object Relative Clause asymmetry in child Romanian'. RASCAL: Relating Asymmetries between Speech & Comprehension in Language Acquisition, January 24-25, Groningen (poster)http://www.let.rug.nl/cannizzaro/index_files/RASCAL2009.htm
• Avram, L. 'A modal of necessity: the view from diachrony', The 11th Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, June 4-6, Bucharest.

        2008

• Avram, L. 'Is there an expletive there?', BAS Conference, Timisoara, May 22-24.
• Avram, L., M. Coene 'Early subjects in a null subject language', The Romance Turn 3, Southampton, UK, September 18-29.
• Avram, L. 'On early subjects in child English and child Romanian', Constructions of Identity V, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, October 23-25.
• Avram, L. 'On the development of a modal verb of necessity'. Grammaticalization and Pragmaticalization in Romanian, University of Bucharest, October 3-4.

• Avram, L., Coene, M. 'The Modal Reference Effect: the case of early verbal forms in Romanian', Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition/ GALA 2007, Barcelona, September 6-8.
• Avram, L., Coene, M. 'Identifying possible clinical markers for Romanian-speaking children with SLI on the basis of longitudinal studies of TD-children', COST A33 Berlin meeting, February 16.   
• Avram, L. ' A trebui : de la părinţi “instabili” la copii creativi'.  Limba română. Dinamica limbii, dinamica interpretării. Al 7-lea Colocviu al Catedrei de limba română, Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea din Bucureşti Masa rotundă Gramaticalizarea în limba română veche Bucureşti, 7-8 decembrie 2007. 

• Avram, L. 'Main properties of the Romanian adjective phrase:predictions for acquisition'. Pre- and Proto-morphology Workshop’,  Vienna, February.

• Avram, L. 'Phrasal transitives and the left periphery of particle phrases', The Annual Conference of the English Department of Transilvania University, Brasov, March 2006.

• Avram, L. 'Need modal verbs be raising verbs?' The Conference of the English Department of Babes-Bolyai University,  Cluj-Napoca, April 2006
• Avram, L.  'De ce verbele modale nu pot fi analizate ca verbe de tip raising' ('Why modal verbs cannot be analysed as raising verbs'), The Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, May 2006.
• Avram, L. 'On the acquisition of direct object clitics.' The Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, 23-25 June 2006.

• Goga, I., Avram, L., Bolos, A. ‘Metodologii de cercetare a achiziţiei limbajului utilizînd baze de date electronice. Corpusuri româneşti cu vorbire adresată copiilor’  The National Conference of Psychology/ CNPCJ 2006, Cluj-Napoca, May  2006.

• Avram, L. 'Object clitics as Last Resort: implications for language acquisition', The Romance Turn 2, Utrecht, 7-9 September 2006.

          2005

• Coene, M., L. Tasmowski, L. Avram 'Do we have or want a Romanian conditional … or was there simply one?’ , Workshop on Balkan Linguistics, Ca’ Foscari, Venice, May 2005.
• Avram, L., Coene, M.  ‘The Complementizer Phrase in child Romanian’,  Congress of  International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Berlin, July 2005.
• Coene,M., H. Taelman,  L.  Avram , S. Gillis: ‘Early bare infinitives are universally non-finite...but not always infinitives!’,   Congress of International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Berlin, July.
• Avram, L. , M. Coene:  The Complementizer Phrase in child Romanian: an early discourse-anchor’, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (Gala 2005), Siena, September 7-10 (poster session). 
• Avram, L. : ‘On finiteness and the complementizer phrase in child Romanian’, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (Erasmus exchange programme), September 13.
•  Flagner, H., L. Avram: 'Categoria genului în limba germană ca L2 '[Gender in adult L2 German], Modele şi metamorfoze inter-şi intraculturale, The Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, May. 
• Avram,L., M. Coene: 'On the acquisition of finiteness. The case of child Romanian'. At A Matter of Taste,The Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, June 2-4.
• Avram, L. , V. Hill: 'The Analysis (of a MODAL VERB) of necessity : a matter of taste?' A Matter of Taste, The Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, June 2-4.  

• Avram, L. ‘The acquisition of verbal morphology: the case of child Romanian, Pre- and Proto-morphology Workshop’,  Vienna, February.
• Avram,L., M. Coene ‘Romanian Early Root Verbal Inflection is Optionally non-finite’ .International Conference on The Expression of Time and Space, Special Workshop: Time and Space in Romanian, Anvers, September.
• Coene, M.,  L. Avram  ‘Early root infinitives in Romanian’,  ‘Going Romance ‘, Leiden,  December 9 -11.

• Avram, L. ‘Romanian –ind constructions  and Case’, The Annual Conference of the English Department, June, Bucharest.

   

  2003

• Avram, L. 'Feature selection and feature valuation: the view from early clitics and determiners' , The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS – Utrecht , Experimental Linguistics Talks in Utrecht (EliTU) meetings, 10 January (invited)

• Avram, L.,  M. Coene 'From Feature Selection to Feature Valuation: the view from early clitics and determiners. Generative Linguistics in the Old World /GLOW 2003, Workshop II: Generative approaches to language development,  Lund, Sweden, 12 April.

• Avram, L., M. Coene 'What early clitics can tell us about early subjects'. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition/ Gala 2003, poster session, Utrecht, September.

• Avram, L. 'Bilingvismul din perspectiva Gramaticii Universale', 7th International Symposium on Language Sciences Iurii Fedkovici University, Cernăuţi, 2-5 October.

• Flagner,H.,  L. Avram 'Die Kategorie Genus im Erwerb des Deutschen als früher Zweitsprache (The Emergence of Gender in child L2 German), VI. Kongress der Germanisten Rumäniens, Sibiu/Hermannstadt , 26 – 29 May 2003.

• Avram, L. 'The No Functional Projection Hypothesis Revisited', The Annual Conference of English and American Studies, Transilvania University, Braşov,  21 March.

• Avram, L. 'Articles, clitics, phases, and memory'. The Annual Conference of the English Department (Sites of Memory), 5-7 June.

        2002

• Avram, L.,  M. Coene 'Why is it difficult to reach agreement ?' LSRL 32, Toronto, April 19-21.
• Avram, L. 'The Double Object Construction:  A Reconciliation Account' The International Conference BRITISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES, Timisoara, 16-18 May.
• Coene, M., L. Avram 'On the acquisition of REFERENCE and its consequences for the Tense system in early child Romanian'. The Annual Conference of the English Department, 6-8 JUne. 
• Avram, L. 'Remarks on  temporal interpretation and control  in Romanian gerund constructions'.International conference on Romance linguistics , UIA- Anvers, 19-21 September.
• Avram, L., V. Motapanyane 'An irrealis auxiliary BE in Romanian'. Workshop on The Syntax and Semantics of Existence, Nancy  26-28 September.
• Avram, L. 'Accusative clitics and determiners in early Romanian'. ACLC Amsterdam, December 6 (invited).