Bradley Hoot
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bradley Hoot plays a role.
2023 Crosslinguistic influence from Catalan and Yucatec Maya on judgments and processing of Spanish focus Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:4, pp. 529–575 | Article
Although a bilingual’s knowledge of one language can affect the other, crosslinguistic influence (CLI) is constrained: certain domains, such as the syntax-discourse interface, are more likely to be affected. Linguists have debated CLI’s nature and cause: the Structural Overlap Hypothesis… read more
2018 That-trace effects in Spanish-English code-switching Code-switching – Experimental Answers to Theoretical Questions: In honor of Kay González-Vilbazo, López, Luis (ed.), pp. 101–145 | Chapter
Many languages, including English, exhibit a restriction on subject extraction over complementizers called the that-trace effect. Although extensively studied, this phenomenon remains a puzzle. Not all languages exhibit the effect; Spanish does not. Spanish also allows postverbal subjects, while… read more
2018 The realization of information focus in monolingual and bilingual native Spanish Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:2, pp. 217–251 | Article
The strategies used to signal information focus — the non-presupposed part of a sentence — in Spanish are under debate. The literature suggests that focus must appear rightmost; however, empirical evidence shows that speakers also realize focus in-situ. Moreover, there is limited research… read more
2017 Narrow presentational focus in heritage Spanish and the syntax‒discourse interface Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:1, pp. 63–95 | Article
The grammars of bilinguals have been found to differ from those of monolinguals especially with regard to phenomena that involve the interface of syntax and discourse/pragmatics. This paper examines one syntax‒discourse interface phenomenon – presentational focus – in the grammars of heritage… read more