Erica C. García
List of John Benjamins publications in which Erica C. García is involved.
1996 Measured Coherence Coherence and Anaphora, De Mulder, Walter and Liliane Tasmowski (eds.), pp. 139–160 | Article
Abstract. This paper reports on an experiment carried out with six groups of Latin-American college students. Subjects were presented with stimulus sentences with a gap produced by the removal, from an original sentence, of an anaphor (si) or a deictic (él). They were asked to fill in the gap. Two… read more
1991 Grasping the Nettle: variation as proof of invariance New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation, Waugh, Linda R. and Stephen Rudy (eds.), pp. 33–59 | Article
1990 Reanalysing actualization, and actualizing reanalysis Historical Linguistics 1987: Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987, Andersen, Henning and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 141–160 | Article
1990 Where there is a Message there is a Way: Ku Versus Null in Papiamentu Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 5:2, pp. 187–222 | Article
The present article analyzes the optional occurrence of KU (versus NULL) introducing complement sentences in Papiamentu. It is claimed that the choice between an overt connecting element or NULL is neither syntactically dependent nor arbitrary, but, rather, is independent and communicatively… read more
1989 Open reading of a closed text: Zúñiga’s “Puertas abiertas, puertas cerradas” From Sign to Text: A semiotic view of communication, Tobin, Yishai (ed.), pp. 235–252 | Article