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Sintaxi del català | Interfícies sintaxi / semàntica i semàntica / pragmàtica

Publicacions recents / Recent publications

2024
Espinal, M.T., C. Real-Puigdollers & X. Villalba (2024). From a movement verb to an epistemic discourse marker. The diachronic change of Spanish vaya. Linguistic Variation, 24(1), p. 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.22006.esp

Villalba, X. (2024). Exclamatives: An overview. In: Guesser, S., Marchesan, A. and Medeiros Junior, P. ed. Wh-exclamatives, Imperatives and Wh-questions: Issues on Brazilian Portuguese. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 23-52. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111183176-002

Villalba, X. (2024). Expressive commitments: A normative approach to exclamations. International Review of Pragmatics, 16(1), 87-109. https://doi.org/10.1163/18773109-01601004

Villalba, X. (2024). Romance exclamative markers at the syntax-pragmatics interface: A compositional approach to exclamativity, Journal of Pragmatics 226, p. 64-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.04.004.

2022
Villalba, X. (2022). The Functional Structure of Infinitive Relatives in Romance. Consequences for the Cartographic Approach. Annali Di Ca’ Foscari. Serie Occidentale no. 56. https://doi.org/10.30687/annoc/2499-1562/2022/10/008

Espinal, M.T., C. Real-Puigdollers & X. Villalba. (2022). From a movement verb to an epistemic discourse marker. The diachronic change of Spanish vaya. Linguistic Variation (online first). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.22006.esp.

2021
Trotzke, A., & Villalba, X. (2021). Expressive insubordination. In A. Trotzke & X. Villalba (Eds.), Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks (pp. 108–120). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198871217.003.0006

Trotzke, A., & Villalba, X. (eds.) (2021). Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks. Oxford University Press.

Villalba, X. (2021). La estructura informativa. En la interfaz entre la sintaxis y la semántica. In M. Leonetti & M. V. Escandell-Vidal (Eds.), La estructura informativa (pp. 185–216). Visor.

2020
Trotzke, A., & Villalba, X. (2020). Exclamatives as responses at the syntax-pragmatics interface. Journal of Pragmatics, 168, 139–171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.06.012

Brunetti, L., Mayol, L., & Villalba, X. (2020). Bridging Strength, Monotonicity, and Word Order Choices in Catalan. Discourse Processes, 57(8), 703–724. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2020.1768623

Villalba, X., & Planas-Morales, S. (2020). Complementantes preposicionales en las relativas de infinitivo. Revista Española de Lingüística, 2(50), 83–106. https://doi.org/10.31810/rsel.50.2.4

Villalba, X. (2020). Scoping in degree exclamative sentences. In S. Sessarego & M. González-Rivera (Eds.), Interface-Driven Phenomena in Spanish (pp. 131–144). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003006855-7

Feldhausen, I., & Villalba, X. (2020). 5.4 Modality and Information Structure: Focus, Dislocation, Interrogative and Exclamatory Sentences. In J. A. Argenter & J. Lüdtke (Eds.), Manual of Catalan Linguistics (pp. 247–270). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110450408-009

2019
El orden de palabras en contraste. Madrid: Arco/Libros.

“Infinitive Wh-Relatives in Romance: Consequences for the Truncation-versus-Intervention Debate”. Syntax, vol.22 (2-3), pp. 303–335.

2018
“La partición foco-trasfondo en las oraciones interrogativas del catalán y del español: estudio de corpus” (amb S. Planas-Morales). Normas 8(1), 43. https://doi.org/10.7203/normas.v8i1.13325

“Bridging and dislocation in Catalan” [amb L. Mayol]. In Francisco Ordóñez & L. Repetti, eds. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14. Selected papers from the 46th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, NY. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 199–211.

“Els pronoms forts en les oracions existencials del català”. Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia, 65/tardor, pp. 69-94.

2017
Exclamatives, imperatives, optatives. In A. Dufter & E. Stark (Eds.), Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 603–646.

Non-asserted material in Spanish degree exclamatives: An experimental study on extreme degree. In I. Bosque (Ed.), Advances in the analysis of Spanish exclamatives (pp. 139–158). Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press.

2016
Interfaces and domains of quantification by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach (review). Language, 92(1), 219–222. doi:10.1353/lan.2016.0017

L’evolució de les oracions exclamatives-qu de grau en català. Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia, 60, 211–226. doi:10.7203/caplletra.60.8454

Definiteness effect, pronouns and Information Structure in Catalan existentials. In S. Fischer, T. Kupisch, & E. Rinke (Eds.), Definiteness effects: Bilingual, typological and diachronic variation (pp. 172–209). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publisher.

Interacció sintàctica i entonativa a les interrogatives catalanes amb dislocació a la dreta [amb S. Planas-Morales]. In A. M. Fernández (Ed.), 53 reflexiones sobre aspectos de la fonética y otros temas de lingüística (pp. 311–319). Barcelona: Laboratori de Fonètica de la Universitat de Barcelona

Oraciones exclamativas. In J. Gutiérrez-Rexach, ed. Enciclopedia Lingüística Hispánica. London: Routledge, pp. 737–749.

2015
Ambiguity resolution and information structure [amb M.T. Espinal]. The Linguistic Review, 32(1): 667–692. doi:10.1515/tlr-2014-0015

Microinformática. Modelos de variación informativa microparamétrica. In A. Gordejuela Senosiáin et al., eds. Lenguas, lenguaje y lingüística. Contribuciones desde la Lingüística General. Pamplona: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, pp. 507–516.

2013
Right-dislocation in Catalan: Tails, Polarity and Activation. [amb L. Mayol] International Review of Pragmatics, 5(1), 87–117.

Eventualities under deadjectival nominalizations. Borealis, 2(2), 241-259.

The Right Periphery of Interrogatives in Catalan and Spanish: Syntax/Prosody Interactions. [amb Planas-Morales, S.] Catalan Journal of Linguistics 12, 193-217.

Eventive existentials in Catalan and the topic-focus articulation. Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica, 25(1), 147-173.

2011
A quantitative comparative study of right-dislocation in Catalan and Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics.

Las nominalizaciones deadjetivales con lo y las cualidades. In: M. Victoria Escandell, Manuel Leonetti and Cristina Sánchez López. eds. 60 problemas de gramática. Madrid: Akal. 90-98.

The HISPACAT comparative database of syntactic constructions and its applications to syntactic variation research. Oslo Studies in Language 3(2): 129-145.

2010
El orden de las palabras en español. Madrid: Castalia.

Predicate focus fronting in the Spanish determiner phrase [amb Anna Bartra-Kauffman]. Lingua 120.4: 819-849.

2009
The Syntax and Semantics of Dislocations in Catalan.
Köln: Lambert Academic Publishing.

Definite Adjective Nominalizations in Spanish. Dins: M.T. Espinal, M. Leonetti & L. McNally (eds.),  Proceedings of the IV Nereus International Workshop “Definiteness   and   DP   Structure   in   Romance   Languages”.  Arbeitspapier   124. Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, 139-153.