Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] 2014. viii, 423 pp.
Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta
List of John Benjamins publications for which Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Subjectification and conativity: Origins and development of the verbal construction tratar de + infinitive Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
Conative constructions have enjoyed considerable attention over the past decade from a typological perspective. However, the historical development of conativity in individual languages has been largely neglected to date. In this paper, we put forth an exhaustive diachronic analysis of the… read more
2016 Exploring and recycling: Topichood and the evolution of Ibero-romance articles Exaptation and Language Change, Norde, Muriel and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 341–375 | Article
This paper discusses the concept of syntactic exaptation (see Traugott 2004) by considering two changes which involve re-use of highly grammaticalized linguistic material and have as yet received little attention. We claim that exaptation is an appropriate label to describe the outcome of both… read more
2015 The diachrony of subjective amenazar ‘threaten’: On Latin-induced grammaticalization in Spanish New Directions in Grammaticalization Research, Smith, Andrew D.M., Graeme Trousdale and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 187–208 | Article
In the functional-linguistic literature, amenazar and other ‘threaten’ verbs have been accounted for in terms of grammaticalization and subjectification of the lexical construction/reading of amenazar + infinitive into a subjective construction/reading of amenazar + infinitive. On the basis of… read more
2014 Introduction Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2014 Preface Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Preface