Maria Cristina Cuervo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Cristina Cuervo plays a role.
Articles
The sum is more than its parts: Acquisition of clitic clusters in Spanish Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact, Klassen, Rachel, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela (eds.), pp. 145–168 | Article
2015 We analyze all instances of potential or realized Spanish clitic clusters in the María and Emilio corpora from CHILDES from the ages of 1;09 to 3;00. After a brief stage in which they are completely absent, clusters are produced in target contexts at adult rates. Percentage of realization was the… read more
Perfecting the past Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact, Klassen, Rachel, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela (eds.), pp. 191–210 | Article
2015 Studies on Spanish first language (L1) acquisition have shown that the Present Perfect (PP) appears together with the Present tense, or immediately after, and Peninsular Spanish children use it productively before the Preterit. Though the PP has become the default form of past reference in many… read more
Two types of (apparently) ditransitive light verb constructions Romance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance, Arregi, Karlos, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay (eds.), pp. 139–156 | Article
2010 An analysis of Spanish ditransitive constructions with light verb dar reveals that despite surface similarity these constructions belong to two groups corresponding to distinct argument structures. While expressions like dar permiso/ánimo ‘give permission/encouragement’ correspond to double-object… read more
A Control-vs-Raising Theory of Dative Experiencers Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition, Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa and Yves Roberge (eds.), pp. 111–130 | Article
2003 Structural asymmetries but same word order: The dative alternation in Spanish Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 117–144 | Article
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