Dylan Jarrett
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dylan Jarrett is involved.
2025 Expressing future tense in Spanish: A cross-dialectal comparative analysis Spanish in Context 22:2, pp. 311–343 | Article
The present investigation examines the expression of futurity (periphrastic vs. morphological future) in Spanish in corpora from Caracas, Venezuela, Mexico City, Mexico, and three cities in Spain. The results indicate that, in the Caracas and Mexico City data, the periphrastic future (PF) has… read more
2023 Tracing semantic change in Portuguese: A distributional approach to adversative connectives Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
This study uses word embeddings to investigate the semantic changes underlying the creation of two adversative connectives in Portuguese, porém and mas ‘but, however’. For porém, we chart its development from an original PP formed by a preposition with a causal meaning (por) and a demonstrative… read more
2023 Task-specific motivation and development of the Spanish L2 self during domestic immersion TASK 3:1, pp. 140–177 | Article
The present study considers global (Dörnyei’s 2005 L2 selves) and micro (task-specific) measures of motivation in a unique task-based context: a two-week, domestic Spanish immersion program for high schoolers in the United States (Gurzynski-Weiss, in revision). Data was collected from eight… read more
2020 Chapter 10. Developing epistemic meaning: A diachronic study of the Spanish adverb a lo mejor Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Pascual y Cabo, Diego and Idoia Elola (eds.), pp. 215–232 | Chapter
The present paper focuses on the development of the Spanish adverb a lo mejor, originally meaning ‘to the best’ as it develops from a prepositional phrase indicating a destination or goal to an epistemic modal adverb which expresses the speaker’s doubt concerning the proposition. It is shown… read more