Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Utrecht 2011
Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen, Luisa Meroni and Manuela Pinto
[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 5] 2013. ix, 269 pp.
Manuela Pinto
List of John Benjamins publications for which Manuela Pinto plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005
Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 291] 2007. viii, 338 pp.
Subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2015 Copula choice in adjectival contstructions in Dutch L1 Spanish L2 The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings, Judy, Tiffany and Silvia Perpiñán (eds.), pp. 309–328 | Article
L2 learners of Spanish have difficulties choosing the right copula in ser/estar + adjective constructions. Beyond the effect of processing load of information pertaining to different cognitive modules (Sorace’s (2011) Interface Hypothesis), this study aims at pinpointing the specific properties… read more
2015 Eventive and stative passives and copula selection in Canadian and American Heritage Speaker Spanish New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar, Pérez-Jiménez, Isabel, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina (eds.), pp. 267–292 | Article
Spanish captures the difference between eventive and stative passives via an
obligatory choice between two copula; verbal passives take the copula ser and
adjectival passives take the copula estar. In this study, we compare and contrast
US and Canadian heritage speakers of Spanish on their… read more
2013 Tracking reference with null subjects Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013, Aalberse, Suzanne and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 131–145 | Article
Null-subject languages are said to track reference and discourse-pragmatic information exploiting the array of specialized forms provided by their grammar. This argument is normally used as the baseline against which language acquisition and contact varieties (L1, 2L1, L2, L1-attrition) are… read more
2006 Subject pronouns in bilinguals: Interference or maturation? The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vincent and Linda Escobar (eds.), pp. 331–350 | Article
Longitudinal data from two Dutch-Italian bilinguals show that third person subject pronouns are not acquired before the age of 3;1 and that the usage of these pronouns does not always converge with the monolingual target. This paper accounts for this acquisitional delay by integrating Müller and… read more
1999 Information focus: Between core and periphery Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax, Treviño, Esthela and José Lema (eds.), pp. 179 ff. | Article
1994 Subjects in Italian: Distribution and Interpretation Linguistics in the Netherlands 1994, Bok-Bennema, Reineke and Crit Cremers (eds.), pp. 175–186 | Article