Javier Rivas

List of John Benjamins publications for which Javier Rivas plays a role.

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Brown, Esther L. and Javier Rivas 2011 Subject-verb word order in Spanish interrogatives: A quantitative analysis of Puerto Rican Spanish Spanish in Context 8:1, pp. 23–49 | Article
We conduct a quantitative analysis of conversational speech from native speakers of Puerto Rican Spanish to test whether optional non-inversion of subjects in wh-questions (¿qué tú piensas?) is indicative of a movement in Spanish from flexible to rigid word order (Morales 1989; Toribio 2000). We… read more