Ana Bravo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ana Bravo is involved.
2021 Students’ errors in L1 Spanish grammar from the perspective of formal linguistics Pedagogical Linguistics 2:2, pp. 153–174 | Article
This paper studies the role that knowledge about formal linguistics can play in teacher education. In order to do so, this contribution focuses on specific secondary students’ errors and misconceptions when confronted with L1 explicit grammar instruction. Errors are measured with respect to a… read more
2020 Chapter 15. Modal verbs in L’Étranger and its Romance translations: Old problems and new perspectives The Expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus’s L'Étranger and Its Translations / L'Étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME): An empirical study / Etude empirique, Corre, Eric, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao (eds.), pp. 283–301 | Chapter
In this paper we compare L’Étranger to two Spanish translations in order to shed light on two theoretical issues. Firstly, the externalization problem (Laca, 2018): where do temporal and aspectual auxiliaries realize preferably in Sp. vs. Fr.? Are high perfects related to low perfects? Secondly,… read more
2020 Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives. Edited by Ignacio Bosque Revue Romane 55:2, pp. 332–336 | Review
2017 Rhetorical imperatives: Reasons to reasoning Imperatives and Directive Strategies, Van Olmen, Daniël and Simone Heinold (eds.), pp. 79–110 | Chapter
Rhetorical imperatives are formal imperatives that convey an assertion of the opposite polarity. As assertions, they can be judged to be true or false. As morphological imperatives, they reject embedding and have verb-subject word order. Rhetorical imperatives involve a widening of the domain… read more