Violeta Demonte
List of John Benjamins publications in which Violeta Demonte is involved.
2014 Chapter 8. Evidentiality and illocutionary force: Spanish matrix que at the syntax-pragmatics interface Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. 217–252 | Chapter
This paper centers on certain aspects of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface. Its main contribution is that it incorporates into the wide crosslinguistic list of grammatical evidentials one type of Spanish que ‘that’, which is claimed to have evolved into this category from a complementizer.… read more
2011 On the nature of nominal features: Agreement mismatches in Spanish conjoined structures Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010, Herschensohn, Julia (ed.), pp. 177–190 | Article
Agreement mismatches pose a challenge for standard conceptions of Agree as a Probe-Goal feature valuation process of a single set of φ-features. In this paper we focus on sentences with a subject DP formed by two singular conjoined Ns, such as La madre e hija vinieron juntas, in which agreement… read more
2001 “Dequeísmo” in Spanish and the Structure and Features of CP Features and Interfaces in Romance: Essays in honor of Heles Contreras, Herschensohn, Julia, Enrique Mallén and Karen Zagona (eds.), pp. 49–70 | Article
1999 A Minimal Account of Spanish Adjective Position and Interpretation Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics: Papers in honor of Mario Saltarelli, Franco, Jon A., Alazne Landa and Juan Martín (eds.), pp. 45–76 | Article
1992 Linking and case: The case of prepositional verbs Theoretical Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XIX, Ohio State University, April 21–23, 1989, Laeufer, Christiane and Terrell A. Morgan (eds.), pp. 415–456 | Article