Jessica Vélez Avilés
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jessica Vélez Avilés plays a role.
Articles
2024 Mixing adjectives: A variable equivalence hypothesis for bilingual word order conflicts Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:5, pp. 609–639 | Article
How do bilinguals mix adjectives and nouns from two languages with a word order conflict at the boundary between them? Prominently competing theories of code-switching (CS) that appeal to abstract features or to a matrix language remain in a stalemate, since their predictions have been reported… read more
2023 Los puertorriqueños se les está cayendo la “a”: Variably marked datives in Puerto Rican Spanish Spanish in Context 20:3, pp. 438–463 | Article
This study addresses a gap in the extensive literature on Spanish indirect objects by offering a study of unmarked datives (i.e.,
Ø eso le pones un papel de aluminio ‘to that you put an aluminum foil’; PRESEEA 2001). Analyzed are the linguistic constraints on the variable absence of… read more