Javier Rivas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Javier Rivas is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 6. Does increased grammaticalization yield decreased duration? Testing vamos a variants in Spanish Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century: Current trends and methodologies, Montes-Alcalá, Cecilia and Miguel García (eds.), pp. 131–147 | Chapter
This study employed naturalistic data to provide a descriptive overview of the patterns of reduction in the Spanish [ir (present) a + infinitive] construction (the default future marker). A durational analysis of N = 158 tokens of vamos (‘we go’) confirms faster rates of articulation across the… read more
2011 Subject-verb word order in Spanish interrogatives: A quantitative analysis of Puerto Rican Spanish Spanish in Context 8:1, pp. 23–49 | Article
We conduct a quantitative analysis of conversational speech from native speakers of Puerto Rican Spanish to test whether optional non-inversion of subjects in wh-questions (¿qué tú piensas?) is indicative of a movement in Spanish from flexible to rigid word order (Morales 1989; Toribio 2000). We… read more