M. Carmen Parafita Couto
List of John Benjamins publications in which M. Carmen Parafita Couto is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2213-3887
Titles
Methodologies for intra-sentential code-switching research
Edited by Amaia Munarriz-Ibarrola, M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Emma Vanden Wyngaerd
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:1 (2018) v, 161 pp.
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
Edited by Kate Bellamy, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another. The thirteen contributions in this volume offer… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 13] 2017. vii, 327 pp.
Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US
Edited by Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo, Catherine M. Mazak and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States. In thirteen chapters, it brings together the work of leading scholars representing diverse disciplinary perspectives within linguistics,… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 11] 2016. viii, 326 pp.
2025 Translanguaging: Rebranding multilingual practices Epistemological issue: Translanguaging, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 31–35 | Commentary
2025 Remarks on the syntax of bare nouns in Papiamentu Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 40:2, pp. 302–337 | Article
This article presents an argument that bare (singular) nouns in Papiamentu include additional silent functional structure, as proposed in Kester and Schmitt (2007). The argument is based on Dutch-Papiamentu code-switched noun phrases and exploits the crucial datum that a Dutch bare noun is… read more
2024 Modelling multilingual ecologies beyond the L1-L2 Binary Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 37–42 | Commentary
2022 Chapter 2. Gender assignment in mixed noun phrases: State of the art The Acquisition of Gender: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 13–48 | Chapter
Noun phrases (NPs) constitute one of the most frequent sites where bilingual speakers code-switch. In this chapter we aim to provide a comprehensive overview of research into grammatical gender assignment in mixed NPs, namely NPs containing a noun from one language and a gender-agreeing element… read more
2022 Gender assignment strategies and L1 effects in the elicited production of mixed Spanish-Basque DPs Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:6, pp. 778–815 | Article
This paper investigates the strategies involved in gender assignment in Spanish-Basque mixed Determiner Phrases (DPs) with a gendered Spanish determiner (el
M /la
F) and a Basque ungendered noun. Previous studies on Spanish-Basque mixed DPs have revealed conflicting results regarding the… read more
2022 Chapter 9. Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual grammars: Evidence from gender assignment in unilingual Dutch and mixed speech The Acquisition of Gender: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 209–242 | Chapter
This study reports on grammatical gender assignment in elicited production data from heritage speakers of Turkish, Papiamento, and Spanish in the Netherlands. We investigate the role of cross-linguistic influence from the heritage language onto the societal language by comparing three heritage… read more
2021 Gender in Dutch/Portuguesecodeswitching: A multimethodological approach Current Perspectives on Codeswitching, Vanden Wyngaerd, Emma, Renata Enghels, Mena B. Lafkioui and Marie Steffens (eds.), pp. 131–182 | Article
This study focuses on unveiling the strategies involved in gender assignment in codeswitching between two gendered languages: Dutch (common/neuter gender) and Portuguese (masculine/feminine gender). We draw on naturalistic speech (n = 32 speakers), elicited production (n = 35) as well as… read more
2021 Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children, Fernandez, Leigh B., Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen (eds.), pp. 211–236 | Chapter
In Papiamento-Dutch bilingual speech, the nominal construction is a potential ‘conflict site’ if there is an adjective from one language and a noun from the other. Adjective position is pre-nominal in Dutch (cf. rode wijn ‘red wine’) but post-nominal in Papiamento (cf. biña kòrá ‘wine red’). We… read more
2020 Inflected infinitives in Galician Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16: Selected papers from the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Delaware, Vogel, Irene (ed.), pp. 259–274 | Chapter
This study uses an audio-questionnaire, supplemented by spoken corpus data, to probe the acceptability of Galician inflected infinitives in different syntactic contexts. Our results reveal that inflected infinitives in Galician are acceptable in a different range of contexts than in closely… read more
2019 Adjectives in Spanish/English code-switching: Avoidance of grammatical gender in bi/multilingual speech Spanish in Context 16:2, pp. 194–216 | Article
The current study investigates DP-internal adjectives in Spanish/English code-switching (CS). Specifically, we analyze two concomitant phenomena that have been previously investigated; namely, the distributional frequency and placement of adjectives in mixed determiner phrases (DPs). A total of… read more
2019 Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children, Azpiroz, Maialen Iraola, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez (eds.), pp. 710–735 | Article
In Papiamento-Dutch bilingual speech, the nominal construction is a potential ‘conflict site’ if there is an adjective from one language and a noun from the other. Adjective position is pre-nominal in Dutch (cf. rode wijn ‘red wine’) but post-nominal in Papiamento (cf. biña kòrá ‘wine red’). We… read more
2018 Methodologies for intra-sentential code-switching research Methodologies for intra-sentential code-switching research, Munarriz-Ibarrola, Amaia, M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Emma Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Introduction
2018 Using two-alternative forced choice tasks and Thurstone’s law of comparative judgments for code-switching research Methodologies for intra-sentential code-switching research, Munarriz-Ibarrola, Amaia, M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Emma Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), pp. 67–97 | Article
This article argues that 2-alternative forced choice tasks and Thurstone’s law of comparative judgments (Thurstone, 1927) are well suited to investigate code-switching competence by means of acceptability judgments. We compare this method with commonly used Likert scale judgments and find that… read more
2017 Chapter 1. Introduction: Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Bellamy, Kate, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2016 Introduction: Multiple influencing factors, diverse participants, varied techniques: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Spanish-English codeswitching Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US, Guzzardo Tamargo, Rosa E., Catherine M. Mazak and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Article
2009 When grammars collide: Code-switching in Survive-minimalism Towards a Derivational Syntax: Survive-minimalism, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 133–168 | Article
This study provides a Survive-minimalist analysis of two issues related to DP-structures in code-switching (CS) grammars: (i) the relationship between determiners and nouns in a DP where each respective lexical item originates from a separate language and (ii) the linearization of… read more