Bradley Hoot
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bradley Hoot is involved.
2023 Crosslinguistic influence from Catalan and Yucatec Maya on judgments and processing of Spanish focus Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:4, pp. 529–575 | Article
Although a bilingual’s knowledge of one language can affect the other, crosslinguistic influence (CLI) is constrained: certain domains, such as the syntax-discourse interface, are more likely to be affected. Linguists have debated CLI’s nature and cause: the Structural Overlap Hypothesis… read more
2018 That -trace effects in Spanish-English code-switching Code-switching – Experimental Answers to Theoretical Questions: In honor of Kay González-Vilbazo, López, Luis (ed.), pp. 101–145 | Chapter
Many languages, including English, exhibit a restriction on subject extraction over complementizers called the that-trace effect. Although extensively studied, this phenomenon remains a puzzle. Not all languages exhibit the effect; Spanish does not. Spanish also allows postverbal subjects, while… read more
2018 The realization of information focus in monolingual and bilingual native Spanish Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:2, pp. 217–251 | Article
The strategies used to signal information focus — the non-presupposed part of a sentence — in Spanish are under debate. The literature suggests that focus must appear rightmost; however, empirical evidence shows that speakers also realize focus in-situ. Moreover, there is limited research… read more
2017 Narrow presentational focus in heritage Spanish and the syntax‒discourse interface Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:1, pp. 63–95 | Article
The grammars of bilinguals have been found to differ from those of monolinguals especially with regard to phenomena that involve the interface of syntax and discourse/pragmatics. This paper examines one syntax‒discourse interface phenomenon – presentational focus – in the grammars of heritage… read more