Carlos Acuña-Fariña
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carlos Acuña-Fariña plays a role.
Articles
2016 (A few) psycholinguistic properties of the NP The Structure of the English NP: Synchronic and diachronic explorations, Davidse, Kristin (ed.), pp. 120–141 | Article
Essentially, noun phrases are beams of formal features, like case or arbitrary gender, and semantic features, like number, animacy, or biologically-based gender. This means that when such nominal elements are embedded in the structure of the sentence, their features interact with that structure in… read more
2012 Agreement processes in English and Spanish: A completion study Functions of Language 19:1, pp. 58–88 | Article
The nature of agreement has been the topic of extensive debate in the recent literature of both linguistics and psycholinguistics. In contrast to either fully syntactic or fully semantic accounts, so-called ‘constraint-satisfaction models’ (Haskell et al. 2010, among others) posit that all… read more
2009 ‘NP’ doesn’t say it all: The true diversity of nominal constituency types Functions of Language 16:2, pp. 265–281 | Review article