Andrea Pešková
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andrea Pešková is involved.
2020 Le dije yo, digo: Construccionalización de los introductores cuotativos con el verbo decir en español peninsular y argentino Spanish in Context 17:3, pp. 391–414 | Article
El presente estudio examina la forma y la función de los introductores cuotativos con el verbo decir, a saber, secuencias utilizadas para introducir diálogo construido en el discurso, en el español peninsular y argentino. Se identifican y se investigan varias diferencias morfosintácticas y… read more
2019 Slavic and Romance pro-drop in contrast: Evidence from Czech and Spanish Languages in Contrast 19:2, pp. 310–333 | Article
The present paper investigates similarities and differences between Czech and Spanish regarding the (non-)expression of pronominal subjects (PS). The nature of this comparative study is qualitative, and its central question is whether Czech and Spanish use the same strategies for omission and… read more
2012 Diachronic prosody of a contact variety: Analyzing Porteño Spanish spontaneous speech Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 365–390 | Article
This paper presents a micro-diachronic study of the prosody of Porteño, the Spanish variety spoken in Buenos Aires, by comparing spontaneous speech data collected in 1983 with comparable recordings made in 2008. Porteño Spanish is said to be influenced by Italian due to massive immigration between… read more
2011 Prosodic phrasing in Porteño Spanish Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic: Cross-linguistic and bilingual studies, Gabriel, Christoph and Conxita Lleó (eds.), pp. 153–182 | Article
This paper deals with prosodic phrasing in Porteño Spanish, the urban vernacular of Buenos Aires. Concerning its prosody, Porteño is often described as more closely resembling Italian than other Spanish dialects. While recent work largely focuses on Italian’ features in the domain of pitch accents,… read more