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¿Va primero el verbo? OR ¿El sujeto va primero?: Subject-verb order in Latin American Spanish featured image

¿Va primero el verbo? OR ¿El sujeto va primero?: Subject-verb order in Latin American Spanish

An acceptability judgment study of subject-verb order in Latin American Spanish (Caribbean, Chilean, and Mexican varieties), finding that verb type (unaccusative vs. unergative) …

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Lee-Ann Vidal Covas
¿Va primero el verbo OR El sujeto va primero?: Subject-Verb order in Latin American Spanish featured image

¿Va primero el verbo OR El sujeto va primero?: Subject-Verb order in Latin American Spanish

Presenting work on word order in Spanish at LSA 2023.

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Lee-Ann Vidal Covas

Los efectos condicionantes del verbo en el uso variable de los pronombres personales de sujeto

A cross-community study of 8,286 tokens examining how verb semantics and lexical frequency condition overt subject pronoun expression in Spanish, drawing on speakers from Colombia, …

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Rafael Orozco

El uso variable de los pronombres sujetos en el castellano puertorriqueño hablado en Luisiana y Puerto Rico

A variationist study comparing null and expressed subject pronoun use among Puerto Rican Spanish speakers in Louisiana and Puerto Rico. Analysis of 2,226 tokens reveals similar …

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Lee-Ann Vidal Covas
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Word Order & Information Structure in Latin American Spanish

How verb type and pragmatic context shape subject-verb order acceptability across Latin American Spanish dialects.

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The Mirror Principle Violations Project

Surveyed descriptive materials across various languages.

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Subject Pronoun Expression in Puerto Rican Spanish

How grammatical and discourse constraints condition overt vs. null subject pronoun use in Puerto Rican Spanish speakers in Louisiana and Puerto Rico.

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Covariation & Salience in Linguistic Contact

How the social noticeability of linguistic features shapes language use and adaptation in contact settings.