Joshua Frank
List of John Benjamins publications for which Joshua Frank plays a role.
Articles
2018 Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in late bilingualism: Evidence from the container-content relation Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:4, pp. 411–445 | Article
The container-content relation represents a set of nominal configurations unexplored in the acquisition literature. Whereas in English the switch from a noun-noun compound (water bottle) to a noun-prepositional phrase (bottle of water) is associated with a semantic shift from container to… read more
2016 On the grammaticality of recomplementation in Spanish Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence, Cuza, Alejandro, Lori Czerwionka and Daniel Olson (eds.), pp. 39–52 | Article
In English, an overt secondary complementizer has been described as a grammatical violation, a claim that cannot be corroborated for Spanish. The present study fills this gap in the literature by asking whether the overt variety is associated with a decrement in acceptability judgment when compared… read more