Books
A usage-based approach to syntactic change in Romance: the evolution of prepositional infinitives, 238 pp., in preparation.

Language Typology and Universals: Rumanian in typological perspective, with Laura Daniliuc (eds.). Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 90 pp., in preparation.

 

Articles and chapters in books

‘Pragmatic relevance as cause for syntactic change: the emergence of the prepositional complementizer in Romance’, in Historical Linguistics 2001[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 237], ed. Barry Blake and Kate Burridge. Amsterdam, J.Benjamins, 2003: 377-389.

‘On double standards in language change: the “Slavic conjugation” in Romanian’, in Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Linguists, Prague, 24-29 July 2003, CD-ROM, ed. Eva Hajicová, Anna Kotešovcová, Jirí Mírovský. Prague, Matfyzpress, MFF UK, 2003.

‘Vowel Centralization in Romanian Verbs of Slavic Origin: deliberate exploitation of an indigenous sound change?’, in Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003. Selected papers from ‘Going Romance 2003’, Nijmegen, 20-22 November. [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 270], ed. Haike Jacobs and Twan Geerts. Amsterdam, J.Benjamins, 2005: 378-94.

‘From frequency to finiteness: unexpected parallels in the syntax of concessive and final subordination in three Romance languages.’, in preparation.

‘Romance infinitives with overt subjects: diachronic explanations for their constructional divergence.’, in preparation.

‘Fossilized pragmatics: the position of overt subjects in Spanish infinitival ’, in preparation.

 

Book reviews, conference reports, etc.

Gerhard Ernst, Martin-Dietrich Gleßgen, Christian Schmitt, Wolfgang Schweickard (eds.), Romanische Sprachgeschichte/Histoire linguistique de la Romania - Ein internationales Handbuch zur Geschichte der romanischen Sprachen/Manuel international d’histoire linguistique de la Romania (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 23.1), Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2003, on The Linguist List 15.2201, 2004.

Gabriele Knauer & Valeriano Bellosta von Colbe (eds.), Variación sintáctica en español. Un reto para las teorías de la sintaxis. (Linguistische Arbeiten 494), Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2005, on The Linguist List 17.383, 2006.

Peter T. Bradley & Ian Mackenzie, Spanish. An Essential Grammar, London/New York: Routledge, 2004, in Bulletin of Spanish Studies, forthcoming 2006.

17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, July 31 to August 5, 2005. Conference report in General Linguistics, forthcoming 2006.
‘Romanian Studies: Language’ in The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 2006. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, forthcoming 2007.

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