My dissertation focuses on the alternation between syndetic and asyndetic finite
complement clauses in Spanish. Syndetic complements, introduced by an explicit …

La noción de evidencialidad se refiere a la expresión lingüística de la fuente de la
información. En los estudios en torno a la evidencialidad que se han publicado en las …

This paper deals with some challenges of Theory of Grammaticalization, as it argues for the
importance of the writer and of rhetorical rules in the evolution of grammar. By studying the …

This article studies the diachronic behaviour of the non-finite verbal (participial, gerundial)
absolute construction (AC) in (pre) classical and modern Spanish translations from Latin …

This chapter argues that the origins of Standard Average European (SAE) are intimately
related to Eastern-influenced Biblical Latin and Germanic-influenced Carolingian Latin. Both …

This paper addresses the auxiliation/grammaticalization of amenazar (Spanish), dreigen
(Dutch), threaten (English), against the background of the competition between the …

El estudio de la historia de las perífrasis verbales es todavía hoy una asignatura pendiente
de la gramática histórica del español. Pese a que el trabajo publicado por Alicia Yllera …

The article focuses on a cross-genre study of fronting phenomena in 13 th Century Old
Spanish. In particular, we study stage topics and deictic fronting, fronting in quotative …

L'objectiu d'aquest treball és analitzar l'emergència del MD no obstant això en català.
Aquesta evolució permet posar en relleu que no tot canvi en la gramàtica ha de ser estudiat …

From the 15th century on Spanish periphrastic passives with ser 'to be'+ participle receive
competition from the increasingly frequent pronominal passive (with reflexive se). Our …