Publications

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Monographs

2019Variation and Change in Ibero-Romance Wh-interrogatives. Habilitationsschrift, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
2014Auxiliary Selection in Spanish. Gradience, Gradualness, and Conservation. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Announcement

Edited volumes

In prep.Romance Indefinites: From Semantics to Pragmatics. Language Science Press (with Olga Kellert and Sebastian Lauschus).
Discourse-pragmatic Perspectives on Interrogatives. Special issue, Functions of Language.
2018Inferences in Interaction and Language Change. Special issue, Open Linguistics (with Oliver Ehmer). Open access here.
2015Auxiliary Selection Revisited: Gradience and Gradualness. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter (with Rolf Kailuweit). Announcement

Journal papers

To appearÀ nouveau and de nouveau in spoken and written French. Journal of French Language Studies.
Why don't grammaticalization pathways always recur? (with Eitan Grossman). Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
Asyndetic complementation and referential integration in Spanish: a probabilistic diachronic grammar account (with Giulia Mazzola & Bert Cornillie). Journal of Historical Linguistics.
Variación diatópica en la evolución del pluscuamperfecto sintético. Verba.
Modeling the discourse pragmatics of interrogatives. Functions of Language.
How sentence type influences the interpretation of Spanish future constructions (with María Sol Sansiñena). Functions of Language.
2021Two types of constructionalization processes in Spanish and Portuguese clefted wh-interrogatives. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 14(1). 117-160.
Reforming the Spanish future subjunctive: Linguistics and legal language policy (with Mary C. Lavissière). International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09807-5
On cause and correlation in language change. Word order and clefting in Brazilian Portuguese (with Freek Van de Velde). Language Dynamics and Change 11. 130-166.
2019Actual and apparent change in Brazilian Portuguese wh-interrogatives. Language Variation and Change 31(2). 165-191. Open access here.
The discourse functions of insubordination in Spanish wh-interrogatives (with María Sol Sansiñena). Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium 13. Open access here.
A história das interrogativas parciais in-situ no português brasileiro em uma perspectiva baseada no uso. LaborHistórico 5. 162-189. Open access here.
De la consecución a la contraexpectación: la construccionalización de lograr/conseguir + infinitivo (with Mar Garachana). Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 12(2). 383-422.
Brazilian Portuguese in-situ wh-interrogatives between rhetoric and change. Glossa 4(1). 1–29. Open access here.
Echoic and non-echoic confirming affirmative responses in spoken Brazilian Portuguese (with Scott Schwenter). Journal of Pragmatics 141. 80-101.
Entrenchment and persistence in language change: the Spanish past subjunctive (with Scott Schwenter). Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 15(1). 167-204.
2018El orden de palabras en las interrogativas-Q. Un análisis contrastivo del español caribeño y portugués brasileño. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana 16(2). 135-148.
Inferences in interaction and language change (with Oliver Ehmer). Open Linguistics 4. 536-551. Open access here.
The pragmatics of postposed-wh interrogatives in Spanish. Folia Linguistica 52(2). 283-317.
Refunctionalization and usage frequency. An exploratory questionnaire study. Languages 3(4). Open access here.
When "questions" are not questions. Inferences and conventionalization in Spanish but-prefaced partial interrogatives Open Linguistics 4. 70-100 (with Oliver Ehmer). Open access here.
Las funciones discursivas de las interrogativas parciales en castellano. Romanistisches Jahrbuch 69. 277-314.
2017The road to auxiliariness revisited: the grammaticalization of FINISH anteriors in Spanish (with Eitan Grossman). Diachronica 34(4). 516-558.
2016A match made in heaven. Using parallel corpora and multinomial logistic regression to analyze the expression of possession in Old Spanish (with Andrés Enrique-Arias). Language Variation and Change 28. 307-334.
The development of iterative verbal periphrases in Romance. Linguistics 54(2). 235-272. Download
2012How to measure replacement: Auxiliary selection in Old Spanish bibles. Folia Linguistica Historica 33 (1). 135–174. Open access here.
2011Rutinas léxicas en el cambio gramatical. El caso de las perífrasis deónticas e iterativas (with Mar Garachana). Revista de Historia de la Lengua Española 6. 35-60. Download

Handbook articles

To appearDiscourse Traditions and Corpus Linguistics. In Octavio de Toledo y Huerta, Álvaro and Esme Winter-Froemel (eds.), Diskurstraditionen in den romanischen Sprachen. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter (=Manuals of Romance Linguistics).
2020Pragmatics and word order (with Pekka Posio). In Félix-Brasdefer, César and Dale Koike (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics, 73-90. London: Routledge.

Chapters in refereed edited volumes

In prep.Nuevas herramientas en la lingüística diacrónica: tradiciones discursivas y lingüística computacional (with Giulia Mazzola and Stefano De Pascale). In Cornillie, Bert, Giulia Mazzola and Miriam Thegel (eds.), Tradiciones Discursivas en tiempos de Lingüística Cuantitativa. Madrid, Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert.
-Persistence and individual preferences, or why variation is never truly “free”. In Kopf, Kristin and Thilo Weber (eds.), Free variation, unexplained variation? Empirical and theoretical approaches to optionality in grammar.
To appearOn the emergence of polyphonic functions of bueno: a dialectal view (with Pekka Posio). In Casartelli, Daniela, Pekka Posio, Silvio Cruschina and Stef Spronck (eds.), The Grammar of Thinking. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
The development of the Brazilian Portuguese present perfect: from nominal to verbal pluractionality (with Martin Becker). In Rosemeyer, Malte, Olga Kellert and Sebastian Lauschus (eds.), Romance Indefinites: From Semantics to Pragmatics. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Focus processing and background knowledge (with Daniel Jacob and Lars Konieczny). In Garassino, Davide and Daniel Jacob (eds.), When Data Challenges Theory: Non-Prototypical, Unexpected and Paradoxical Evidence in the Field of Information Structure. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
Anteriors and resultatives in Old Spanish. In Garachana, Mar, Sandra Montserrat and Claus Pusch (eds.), From Composite Predicates to Verbal Periphrases in Romance Languages. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2019(Não) diga sim: Bejahende Antworten im gesprochenen Portugiesisch und im Portugiesischunterricht. In Gabriel, Christoph, Jonas Grünke and Sylvia Thiele (eds.), Romanische Sprachen in ihrer Vielfalt: Brückenschläge zwischen linguistischer Theoriebildung und Fremdsprachenunterricht, 15-42. Stuttgart: ibidem.
2017La historia de las perífrasis deber / deber de + INF: variación, norma y géneros textuales. In Garachana, Mar (ed.), La gramática en la diacronía. La evolución de las perífrasis verbales modales en español, 147-193. Madrid, Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert.
Masse und Klasse. Zur Datierung von grammatischen Sprachwandelprozessen. In Völker, Harald and Georg Kaiser (eds.), Philologie und Grammatik, 187-204. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
2016Gradientes semánticos y sintácticos en la historia de la selección de auxiliares en español. In De Benito Moreno, Carlota and Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), En torno a haber: construcciones, usos y variación desde el latín hasta la actualidad, 469-502. New York, Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang.
Modeling frequency effects in language change. In Behrens, Heike and Stefan Pfänder (eds.), Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language, 175-207. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Download
2015How usage rescues the system: persistence as conservation. In Adli, Aria, Marco García García and Göz Kaufmann (eds.), Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches, 289-311. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. Download
Entrenchment and discourse traditions in Spanish auxiliary selection. In Kailuweit, Rolf and Malte Rosemeyer (eds.), Auxiliary Selection Revisited: Gradience and Gradualness, 301-331. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. Download
Introduction. In Kailuweit, Rolf and Malte Rosemeyer (eds.), Auxiliary Selection: Gradience and Gradualness, 1-20. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter (with Rolf Kailuweit). Download
2013Tornar and volver: The interplay of frequency and semantics in compound tense auxiliary selection in Medieval and Classical Spanish. In Van Gelderen, Elly, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo (eds.), Argument Structure in Flux. The Naples-Capri Papers, 435-458. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Download
2012On the interplay between transitivity, factivity and information structure: Spanish nominal and verbal infinitives. In García García, Marco and Valeriano Bellosta von Colbe (eds.), Aspectualidad - transitividad - referencialidad: las lenguas románicas en contraste, 181-209. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Download

Reviews

2015Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh / Jan Lindschouw (eds.): Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana 13(1), 229-233. Download
2013Steven N. Dworkin – A History of the Spanish Lexicon. Romanistisches Jahrbuch 64. 340-345. Download
2011Javier Elvira – Evolución lingüística y cambio sintáctico. Romanistisches Jahrbuch 62. 436-440. Download