Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta

List of John Benjamins publications in which Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta is involved.

Title

Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta

Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research. Following the lead of Rizzi (1997), much work on left peripheries has been focused on Italian, whereas other Romance languages have attracted somewhat less attention. This… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] 2014. viii, 423 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Octavio de Toledo y Huerta, Álvaro S. and Mar Garachana Camarero 2025 Subjectification and conativity: Origins and development of the verbal construction tratar de + infinitive Beyond Corpus Data — Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, Granvik, Anton, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä and Eveliina Mäntylä (eds.), pp. 481–509 | Article

Conative constructions have enjoyed considerable attention over the past decade from a typological perspective. However, the historical development of conativity in individual languages has been largely neglected to date. In this paper, we put forth an exhaustive diachronic analysis of the… read more

Wall, Albert and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta 2016 Exploring and recycling: Topichood and the evolution of Ibero-romance articles Exaptation and Language Change, Norde, Muriel and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 341–375 | Article

This paper discusses the concept of syntactic exaptation (see Traugott 2004) by considering two changes which involve re-use of highly grammaticalized linguistic material and have as yet received little attention. We claim that exaptation is an appropriate label to describe the outcome of both… read more

Cornillie, Bert and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta 2015 The diachrony of subjective amenazar ‘threaten’: On Latin-induced grammaticalization in Spanish New Directions in Grammaticalization Research, Smith, Andrew D.M., Graeme Trousdale and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 187–208 | Article

In the functional-linguistic literature, amenazar and other ‘threaten’ verbs have been accounted for in terms of grammaticalization and subjectification of the lexical construction/reading of amenazar + infinitive into a subjective construction/reading of amenazar + infinitive. On the basis of… read more

Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta 2014 Introduction Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter

Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta 2014 Preface Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Preface