Salvador Valera

List of John Benjamins publications in which Salvador Valera is involved.

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Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance

Edited by Martin Hummel and Salvador Valera

Within the current discussion on grammatical interfaces, the word-classes of adjective and adverb are of particular interest because they appear to be separated or joined in manifold ways at the level of word-class or syntax, with morphology playing a prominent role, especially in Romance. The… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 242] 2017. vi, 374 pp. | open access

Articles

Valera, Salvador and Martin Hummel 2017 Introduction Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance, Hummel, Martin and Salvador Valera (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Introduction

Bauer, Laurie, Salvador Valera and Ana Díaz-Negrillo 2010 Affixation vs. conversion.: The Resolution of conflicting patterns Variation and Change in Morphology: Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2008, Rainer, Franz, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky and Hans Christian Luschützky (eds.), pp. 15–32 | Article

This is a case-study in what happens when word-formation processes compete for bases. Based on a sample of English adjectives, this paper examines how two conflicting patterns (-en suffixation and conversion) distribute themselves in the formation of corresponding deadjectival verbs. Focus is on… read more

Valera, Salvador and Alfonso Rizo Rodriguez 1998 A LOB-Corpus-based Semantic Profile of the Adjective in English Supplementive Clauses International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 3:2, pp. 251–278 | Article

One of the various forms that the expression of attribution may take in English is through a supplementive clause, a reduced structure realized by an adjective phrase hypotactically connected with a superordinate clause. The construction under study exhibits an attributive character in that the… read more