Violeta Demonte

List of John Benjamins publications for which Violeta Demonte plays a role.

Articles

Demonte, Violeta and Olga Fernández-Soriano 2014 Chapter 8. Evidentiality and illocutionary force: Spanish matrix que at the syntax-pragmatics interfaceLeft Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. 217–252 | Chapter
This paper centers on certain aspects of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface. Its main contribution is that it incorporates into the wide crosslinguistic list of grammatical evidentials one type of Spanish que ‘that’, which is claimed to have evolved into this category from a complementizer.… read more
Agreement mismatches pose a challenge for standard conceptions of Agree as a Probe-Goal feature valuation process of a single set of φ-features. In this paper we focus on sentences with a subject DP formed by two singular conjoined Ns, such as La madre e hija vinieron juntas, in which agreement… read more
Demonte, Violeta and Olga Fernández-Soriano 2001 “Dequeísmo” in Spanish and the Structure and Features of CPFeatures and Interfaces in Romance: Essays in honor of Heles Contreras, Herschensohn, Julia, Enrique Mallén and Karen Zagona (eds.), pp. 49 ff. | Article
Demonte, Violeta 1999 A Minimal Account of Spanish Adjective Position and InterpretationGrammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics: Papers in honor of Mario Saltarelli, Franco, Jon A., Alazne Landa and Juan Martín (eds.), pp. 45 ff. | Article