Publications

This chapter argues that the origins of Standard Average European (SAE) are intimately related to Eastern influenced Biblical Latin and Germanic influenced Carolingian Latin. Both medieval varieties of Latin combine contact patterns with the presence of grammatical complexity in high prestige textual traditions. The impact of Classical Latin came with the later elaboration of the European vernacular languages into national standard languages ...

This paper analyses the alternation between complement clauses with and without complementizer (syndetic and asyndetic), in historical Spanish (15th–18th century). While previous studies have shown that this syntactic alternation was regulated by the degree of integration of the clauses, its stylistic distribution is understudied. In this paper we investigate whether the syndetic/asyndetic alternation is governed by socio-stylistic factors ...

This paper examines a distinctive syntactic feature of (pre)classical Spanish: asyndetic complementation (without complementizer que 'that'). While many authors regard this construction as a stylistic variant which eventually declined (i.a. Girón 2005), so far no exhaustive morphosyntactic study of the phenomenon has been presented, as previous works either have focused on only one predicate (Blas Arroyo & Porcar Miralles 2016, 2018) or do ...

This article addresses the question of the textual motivation of clitic doubling in Spanish with a case study of indirect object doubling in 18th, 19th and 20th century Argentinian Spanish. Doubling has been claimed to have originated with preposed and stressed topical NPs and to have increased in frequency until it was obligatory in those contexts. This is confirmed by our data. Both this development and the further ongoing spread of doubling ...