Alena Kirova

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alena Kirova is involved.

Article

Camacho, José and Alena Kirova 2015 Does agreement affect the syntax of bare nominal subjects in Russian–Spanish bilinguals? Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact, Klassen, Rachel, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela (eds.), pp. 169–190 | Article

We analyze the effect of overt agreement marking on nouns in the acquisition of the syntactic constraints of bare nominals among L1 Russian learners of L2 Spanish. Gender is grammatically active in both Russian and Spanish, but nominals have a different structure and distribution. We posit that… read more