Ana de Prada Pérez
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ana de Prada Pérez is involved.
2023 The use of default forms in codeswitching: Mood selection in Spanish Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:4, pp. 439–467 | Article
This paper examines the effects that codeswitching (CS) has on mood selection in restrictive relative clauses in the Spanish of heritage speakers (HSs). Spanish HS participants completed an online acceptability judgment task in which they rated monolingual (i.e., unilingual) and codeswitched… read more
2021 How do Spanish heritage speakers in the US assign gender to English nouns in Spanish-English code-switching? The effect of noun canonicity and codeswitcher type Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:6, pp. 846–872 | Article
Previous studies have observed different gender assignment strategies for English nouns in Spanish-English code-switching (CS). However, these studies have not investigated the role of noun gender canonicity of the Spanish equivalent, they have only examined participants in bilingual speaker… read more
2020 Chapter 6. First person singular subject expression in Caribbean heritage speaker Spanish oral production Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives, Ortiz López, Luis A., Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera (eds.), pp. 139–162 | Chapter
Research on contact effects on subject pronoun expression in the U.S. has largely focused on Spanish in the U.S. Southwest and New York City (NYC). The conflicting results reported in this literature could be due to the differences in the distribution of varieties in these U.S. regions. To test… read more
2020 Chapter 4. The effect of grammatical person on subject pronoun expression in the oral narratives of Spanish second language learners Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Pascual y Cabo, Diego and Idoia Elola (eds.), pp. 85–108 | Chapter
In this paper we offer a variationist analysis of Spanish L2 subject pronoun expression (SPE) in sociolinguistic interviews, comparing first (1sg) and third person singular (3sg) subjects. Variationist analyses of Spanish L2 SPE are rather scant, with important differences in the analyses of… read more
2016 On the productive use of ‘hacer + V’ in Northern Belize bilingual/trilingual codeswitching Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US, Guzzardo Tamargo, Rosa E., Catherine M. Mazak and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.), pp. 261–279 | Article
We examine bilingual light verb constructions (BLVCs) in Northern Belize codeswitching by analyzing clause type, syntactic verb type, pronoun type and number of syllables in both switched and non-switched utterances. Results revealed that BLVCs appear in a rich variety of syntactic, lexical and… read more
2014 A congruence approach to the study of bilingual compound verbs in Northern Belize contact Spanish Spanish in Context 11:2, pp. 243–265 | Article
Attested in a wide variety of contact situations, bilingual compound verbs (BCVs) have baffled linguists, as they are innovative hybrid constructions that appear superfluous. In the current study, we examine BCVs in Northern Belize, where Spanish/English language alternation occurs alongside the… read more
2010 Variation in subject expression in Western Romance Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Tucson, Arizona, March 2009, Colina, Sonia, Antxon Olarrea and Ana Maria Carvalho (eds.), pp. 267–284 | Article
Syntactic-theoretic accounts report variation across languages on the availability of null pronominal subjects. As a result, languages are classified as null and non-null subject languages. However, the homogeneity or heterogeneity of null subject languages is not discussed. Variationist research,… read more