Aaron Yamada
List of John Benjamins publications in which Aaron Yamada is involved.
Articles
2026 Indefinite readings of generic noun cristiano in Spanish diachrony Revue Romane: Online-First Articles | Article
The present study raises certain issues regarding the philological literature’s evaluation of the generic noun cristiano ‘Christian’ in Old Spanish as an indefinite ‘anyone’ under the scope of negation, which has been primarily based on the Poema de mio Cid. Following the diachronic evolution of… read more
2024 A diachronic analysis of Spanish alg - series and n- series items in negated clauses Journal of Historical Linguistics 14:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
While previous studies have analyzed the changing nature of polarity items (PIs) in Latin (see Gianollo 2018, 2020) and the licensing conditions of PIs in modern languages (see Homer 2021), less research has analyzed the diachronic behavior of PIs in the development of the Spanish language. The… read more
2021 Lexical diversity in an L2 Spanish learner corpus: The effect of topic-related variables International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:2, pp. 230–258 | Article
This study examines the impact of two topic-related variables (i.e., valence polarity and everyday-life closeness) on the lexical diversity scores (i.e., MTLD) of learners of L2 Spanish at different proficiency levels. The analysis included 3,045 texts written in response to two pairs of prompts… read more