Xavier Villalba
List of John Benjamins publications for which Xavier Villalba plays a role.
Articles
2024 From a movement verb to an epistemic discourse marker: The diachronic change of Spanish vaya Linguistic Variation 24:1, pp. 1–36 | Article
Besides its main use as a form of the movement verb ir ‘to go’, the Spanish form vaya (lit. go) is also used as a verbal discourse marker. Here we trace this transition from a purely verbal form to a discourse marker by searching a historical corpus of documents in Spanish, which reveals the… read more
2018 Chapter 11. Bridging and dislocation in Catalan Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14: Selected papers from the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, NY, Repetti, Lori and Francisco Ordóñez (eds.), pp. 201–213 | Chapter
The exact anaphoric relation between the referent of dislocates and their previous discourse referents has been a matter of much discussion. In this paper, we reexamine this relation under the light of Clark’s notion of bridging (Clark 1977), and connect different anaphoric bridging types with left… read more
2006 Agreement and Predicate Inversion in Spanish DP Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Leiden, 9–11 December 2004, Doetjes, Jenny and Paz González (eds.), pp. 23–41 | Article