Joel Rini

List of John Benjamins publications in which Joel Rini is involved.

Title

Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish

Joel Rini

After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 179] 1999. xvi, 187 pp.

Article

Rini, Joel 2003 The origin of Spanish entre tú y yo “between you and me”: A typological parallel to English between you and I? Diachronica 20:1, pp. 139–165 | Article

The present study analyzes both diachronically and typologically the synchronically irregular Spanish syntagm, entre tú y yo “between you and me”, which employs the subject pronouns, tú and yo, rather than the expected prepositional pronouns, ti and mí. First, a thorough examination of Old Spanish… read more