Mark R. Hoff
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mark R. Hoff plays a role.
2023 Present/future tense variation in contemporary Italian: The role of settledness Revue Romane 58:1, pp. 88–127 | Article
According to normative descriptions of Italian future-framed adverbial clauses, the future tense is the only option (Quando verrai [F], ti presterò il libro ‘When you come, I’ll lend you the book’). However, the present tense may also be used (Quando vieni [P], ti presto il libro). I demonstrate… read more
2023 The role of context in imperative form choice Verb and Context: The impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories, Rodríguez Rosique, Susana and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez (eds.), pp. 327–350 | Chapter
When languages have more than one dedicated imperative, the distinct forms often correspond to different person/number combinations. But what happens when there is variation between two forms for the same person/number combination, e.g. 2nd person singular? This chapter analyzes the competing… read more
2021 Chapter 3. Variable constraints on se lo(s) in Mexican Spanish Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology: In honor of Terrell A. Morgan, Díaz-Campos, Manuel and Sandro Sessarego (eds.), pp. 47–68 | Chapter
We examine the alternation between normative se lo/la and se los/las to express a plural indirect object and singular direct object. Using corpus data from Mexico City and Monterrey, we find that significant predictors of the more frequent variant, se los, are number of the verb, referential… read more
2020 Mood in future-framed adverbials: Pragmatic alternations in Rioplatense Spanish Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions, Morales-Front, Alfonso, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz (eds.), pp. 161–182 | Chapter
In Spanish adverbial clauses containing cuando ‘when’ and a present-tense verb, it is assumed that indicative expresses habituality, but subjunctive futurity. However, in Rioplatense, indicative [I] occurs in future-framed adverbials, conveying epistemic pragmatic meaning: Cuando bajás [I] del… read more
2020 Chapter 1. Cross-dialectal productivity of the Spanish subjunctive in nominal clause complements Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world, Sessarego, Sandro, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli (eds.), pp. 11–32 | Chapter
We performed a large-scale corpus study of the subjunctive across Argentine, Mexican, and Peninsular Spanish, in order to determine possible differences in productivity across dialects. Our data (N = 6,822) from the web/dialects section of Davies’ (2016–)
Corpus del Español were collected… read more
2018 Chapter 6. Are Argentines a-blind? Acceptability of a-marked inanimate direct objects Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, MacDonald, Jonathan E. (ed.), pp. 121–142 | Chapter
I examine syntactic and discursive factors conditioning the variable a-marking of inanimate DOs in Argentine Spanish, using an online questionnaire which includes 16 contextualized discourse items recorded by native Argentines. Argentine respondents (N = 140) evaluated acceptability of the items… read more