Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation
Edited by Ludovic De Cuypere, Clara Vanderschueren and Gert de Sutter
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 31] 2017. vi, 325 pp.
Clara Vanderschueren
List of John Benjamins publications in which Clara Vanderschueren is involved.
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2016 Measuring the degree of near-synonymy of Spanish verbs of putting: A multivariate corpus analysis of poner and meter Functions of Language 23:3, pp. 279–304 | Article
The present article presents a corpus-based study of two near-synonymous verbs in Spanish: the locative verbs of putting poner and meter. Starting from the universal principle of linguistic economy, the paper aims to empirically identify potentially influencing variables that determine the native… read more
2010 The use of translations in linguistic argumentation: A case study on Spanish and Portuguese subordinate clauses introduced by para Languages in Contrast 10:1, pp. 76–101 | Article
Despite obvious interference risks, it has been argued in former studies that translations constitute a useful tool for investigating lexical phenomena. By means of a corpus study on prepositional clauses introduced by para in Spanish and Portuguese, the present paper shows that translations can… read more
2009 La construcción infinitiva tras verbos de percepción visual y auditiva: Un análisis comparativo entre el portugués y el español Revue Romane 44:1, pp. 25–46 | Article
In Spanish and Portuguese the direct perception of an event is expressed by infinitival constructions such as Vi a los niños correr and Vi os meninos correr(em) (“I saw the children run”). This article focuses on the factors that determine the syntactic markings of the perceived participant NP2 as… read more