Jesús Oliva

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jesús Oliva is involved.

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Oliva, Jesús and Kenneth Wexler 2018 The acquisition of Spanish: The comparison between subject experiencer passives versus actional verbs and direct aspectual semantic evidence for the adjectival interpretation On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance, Gavarró, Anna (ed.), pp. 57–90 | Chapter
We test the maturational/adjectival analysis theory of development of passives in Spanish. Children perform less well on psychological passives than on actional passives. Since Borer and Wexler (1987), the most prominent hypothesis is that this difference is due to children’s use of an adjectival… read more
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