Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity
Edited by Albert Álvarez González, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau
[Typological Studies in Language, 126] 2019. vi, 257 pp.
Albert Álvarez González
List of John Benjamins publications for which Albert Álvarez González plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectives
Edited by Albert Álvarez González and Ia Navarro
[Typological Studies in Language, 120] 2017. xv, 310 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
2021 Chapter 10. Explaining the antipassive-causative syncretism in Mocoví (Guaycuruan) Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.), pp. 315–348 | Chapter
Among the polyfunctional valency markers, an antipassive-causative marker is a rather typologically unusual grammatical feature. This paper tries to explain the antipassive-causative syncretism in Mocoví, a Guaycuruan language spoken in northeastern Argentina, by examining the synchronic… read more
2021 Chapter 12. The rise of cause/reason adverbial markers in Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan) Studies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface: Discourse markers and discourse-related grammatical phenomena, Haselow, Alexander and Sylvie Hancil (eds.), pp. 313–352 | Chapter
This paper deals with three different connectives (betchi’ibo, bwe’ituk, po(r)ke) in Yaqui, which are used to introduce a clause that provides the cause/reason for which the situation denoted in the associated clause is carried out. The goal of this paper is to describe the morphosyntactic… read more
2019 Chapter 7. The ‘relative’ illusion and the origin of non-subject nominalizers in Cahita (Uto-Aztecan) Nominalization in Languages of the Americas, Zariquiey, Roberto, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck (eds.), pp. 301–340 | Chapter
This paper proposes to analyze non-subject relative clauses in Cahita languages (†Tehueco, Yaqui, and Mayo, from the Uto-Aztecan family) as non-subject grammatical nominalizations used as appositives in restrictive appositions. This analysis is based on a diachronic perspective which considers the… read more
2019 From discourse to syntax: The use of the discourse marker bwe in the creation of interclausal connectives in Yaqui Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity, Álvarez González, Albert, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau (eds.), pp. 217–247 | Chapter
This paper shows how Yaqui has recruited the element bwe, a discourse connective of discontinuity (that is, a spoken discourse marker that introduces a topic-shift), in order to participate in the creation of two new interclausal connectives: the cause/reason adverbial connective bwe’ituk and the… read more
2017 The antipassive marking in Mocoví: Forms and functions Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectives, Álvarez González, Albert and Ia Navarro (eds.), pp. 227–255 | Chapter
This paper presents the two different antipassive markers (suffixes -(a)ɢan and -(a)taɢan) that can be observed in Mocoví, addressing both their forms and functions. Besides the morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic features that are synchronically involved in Mocoví antipassive constructions,… read more
2017 Transitivity and valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectives, Álvarez González, Albert and Ia Navarro (eds.), pp. 81–105 | Chapter
This paper focuses on valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl. Regarding valency-increasing operations, it is shown that the suffix -lti/-ti/-tia is used for causativization of intransitive verbs, and that applicativization is marked by the suffix -lia/-li/-l. Regarding valency-decreasing… read more
2017 Valency-changing operations in Yaqui resultatives Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectives, Álvarez González, Albert and Ia Navarro (eds.), pp. 133–164 | Chapter
This paper describes the resultative constructions existing in Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan) and discusses the valency issues involved in these constructions. The study shows that Yaqui has five different syntactic types of resultatives: S-, A- and bivalent S-resultatives marked by the suffix -(l)a, and P-… read more
2016 The evolution of grammatical nominalizations in Cahita languages Finiteness and Nominalization, Chamoreau, Claudine and Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), pp. 107–140 | Article
This paper studies the evolution of grammatical nominalizations in Cahita languages (Tehueco, Yaqui, and Mayo, from the Uto-Aztecan family) and also addresses the problem of the relation between nominalization and relativization in this kind of language. The analysis shows that as part of this… read more
2015 El lugar de la cultura y de la competencia intercultural para los maestros de francés lengua extranjera a nivel principante: Un estudio de caso en México Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 28:1, pp. 290–318 | Article
This article explores teachers’ perceptions on the cultural and intercultural dimension in the teaching of French as a Foreign Language for beginners. Based on the correlations found between the educational and cultural profile of each French language teacher and their answers to a semi-structured… read more
2012 Relative clauses and nominalizations in Yaqui Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview, Comrie, Bernard and Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), pp. 67–96 | Article
This paper focuses on the different types of relative clauses (RCls) in Yaqui, a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in northwestern Mexico, demonstrating, on the basis of the nominalization properties exhibited by these types of construction, that they are in fact better analyzed as noun phrases headed by… read more