Xavier Villalba
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 804639 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Xavier Villalba |
| NOMBRES | Xavier |
| APELLIDO | Villalba |
| FIRMA | VILLALBA X |
| AFILIACIONES | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6993-976X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The interaction between clause size and Voice
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.We argue that in certain reduced embedded clauses Voice behaves differently from ev-erywhere else, on the basis of tough-constructions (TCs) and modal passives (MPs) in Ital-ian and Catalan. These constructions involve an A-dependency targeting only internal ar-guments of morphologically active transitive infinitives (unlike control/raising/restructuringdependencies) be…
Exclamatives, try to be a bit more assertive
Trotzke and Giannakidou advance the strong hypothesis that exclamative sentences and exclamations can be reduced to a combination of three basic sentence-types (declaratives, interrogatives, and imperatives) with added intensity for emphasis. Moreover, they give convincing arguments for treating root exclamatives as clauses subordinated to an emotive predicate. In this commentary I briefly evaluate such claims on empirical and theoretical grounds
Els adjectius expressius del català
Cet article propose la première description formelle complète des propriétés pragmatiques et syntaxiques des adjectifs expressifs en catalan, tels que fotut -da (Ets un fotut comediant) ou puto -a (Això és una puta mentida). Concernant l'aspect interprétatif, les adjectifs expressifs se caractérisent par l'incorporation d'un contenu émotionnel associé au point de vue du locuteur qui n'a pas de conséquence sur la sémantique dénotative, mais sur un…
From a movement verb to an epistemic discourse marker
Besides its main use as a form of the movement verb ir 'to go', the Spanish form vaya (lit. go) is also used as a verbal discourse marker. Here we trace this transition from a purely verbal form to a discourse marker by searching a historical corpus of documents in Spanish, which reveals the increasing use over time of vaya in exclamatives to replace a presentational construction. We focus on vaya in isolation and in combination with an indefinit…
Romance exclamative markers at the syntax-pragmatics interface
In this paper I will analyze the set of markers that have been associated with exclamative sentence-type and exclamations in Romance, like Catalan ma, mira, que, and si, Italian guarda and che, or Spanish mira, que, si, and vaya. The hypothesis I will defend is that the meaning encoded by each of these markers contribute to create an exclamation speech act. I will show that we must first distinguish mirative markers like ma, mira or guarda, which…
Bridging Strength, Monotonicity, and Word Order Choices in Catalan
Three experimental studies are presented testing the choice of a left or a right dislocation in Catalan, depending on the bridging relation between the dislocate and its antecedent. We make the hypothesis that the stronger the anaphoric link between the dislocate and its antecedent, the more appropriate a right dislocation is, whereas the opposite is true for left dislocation. The results of two acceptability judgment experiments partially suppor…
Exclamatives as responses at the syntax-pragmatics interface
InfinitiveWh-Relatives in Romance
Romance clitic left dislocation is widespread across all kinds of nonroot contexts, but it is forbidden in infinitivewh-relatives. This article investigates the extent and nature of this restriction and the consequences it raises for the truncation and intervention analyses of the left periphery of embedded sentences. We will show that current proposals cannot account for the whole gamut of data. In consequence, we will propose that infinitivewh-…
Oraciones Exclamativas
El estudio teórico de las oraciones exclamativas es relativamente reciente; no en vano, los primeros trabajos teóricos exhaustivos sobre estas construcciones datan de los años setenta, entre los que destacan con luz propia Elliott (1974) y Grimshaw (1979). En español, el primer estudio detallado es Bosque (1984), que quedó, junto a Torrego (1988), como refierencia fundamental hasta los años noventa, cuando aparecieron los primeros trabajos de Jav…
Ambiguity resolution and information structure
In this paper we focus on the topic of ambiguity resolution in and beyond grammar. We deal with two questions: where is ambiguity resolved (in particular, the ambiguity of expressions conveying specific forms of information packaging and common ground management), and what is the design of grammar that emerges from the study of ambiguity problems. After a review of the standard analysis of ambiguity within the Principles and Parameters model, in …
A quantitative comparative study of right-dislocation in Catalan and Spanish
Predicate focus fronting in the Spanish determiner phrase
An exceptional exclamative sentence type in Romance
A quantitative comparative study of right-dislocation in Catalan and Spanish
An exceptional exclamative sentence type in Romance
Predicate focus fronting in the Spanish determiner phrase
From a movement verb to an epistemic discourse marker
Besides its main use as a form of the movement verb ir 'to go', the Spanish form vaya (lit. go) is also used as a verbal discourse marker. Here we trace this transition from a purely verbal form to a discourse marker by searching a historical corpus of documents in Spanish, which reveals the increasing use over time of vaya in exclamatives to replace a presentational construction. We focus on vaya in isolation and in combination with an indefinit…
Romance exclamative markers at the syntax-pragmatics interface
In this paper I will analyze the set of markers that have been associated with exclamative sentence-type and exclamations in Romance, like Catalan ma, mira, que, and si, Italian guarda and che, or Spanish mira, que, si, and vaya. The hypothesis I will defend is that the meaning encoded by each of these markers contribute to create an exclamation speech act. I will show that we must first distinguish mirative markers like ma, mira or guarda, which…
Exclamatives as responses at the syntax-pragmatics interface
An exceptional exclamative sentence type in Romance
Predicate focus fronting in the Spanish determiner phrase
A quantitative comparative study of right-dislocation in Catalan and Spanish
Ambiguity resolution and information structure
In this paper we focus on the topic of ambiguity resolution in and beyond grammar. We deal with two questions: where is ambiguity resolved (in particular, the ambiguity of expressions conveying specific forms of information packaging and common ground management), and what is the design of grammar that emerges from the study of ambiguity problems. After a review of the standard analysis of ambiguity within the Principles and Parameters model, in …
Oraciones Exclamativas
El estudio teórico de las oraciones exclamativas es relativamente reciente; no en vano, los primeros trabajos teóricos exhaustivos sobre estas construcciones datan de los años setenta, entre los que destacan con luz propia Elliott (1974) y Grimshaw (1979). En español, el primer estudio detallado es Bosque (1984), que quedó, junto a Torrego (1988), como refierencia fundamental hasta los años noventa, cuando aparecieron los primeros trabajos de Jav…
InfinitiveWh-Relatives in Romance
Romance clitic left dislocation is widespread across all kinds of nonroot contexts, but it is forbidden in infinitivewh-relatives. This article investigates the extent and nature of this restriction and the consequences it raises for the truncation and intervention analyses of the left periphery of embedded sentences. We will show that current proposals cannot account for the whole gamut of data. In consequence, we will propose that infinitivewh-…
Bridging Strength, Monotonicity, and Word Order Choices in Catalan
Three experimental studies are presented testing the choice of a left or a right dislocation in Catalan, depending on the bridging relation between the dislocate and its antecedent. We make the hypothesis that the stronger the anaphoric link between the dislocate and its antecedent, the more appropriate a right dislocation is, whereas the opposite is true for left dislocation. The results of two acceptability judgment experiments partially suppor…
Exclamatives as responses at the syntax-pragmatics interface
Els adjectius expressius del català
Cet article propose la première description formelle complète des propriétés pragmatiques et syntaxiques des adjectifs expressifs en catalan, tels que fotut -da (Ets un fotut comediant) ou puto -a (Això és una puta mentida). Concernant l'aspect interprétatif, les adjectifs expressifs se caractérisent par l'incorporation d'un contenu émotionnel associé au point de vue du locuteur qui n'a pas de conséquence sur la sémantique dénotative, mais sur un…
From a movement verb to an epistemic discourse marker
Besides its main use as a form of the movement verb ir 'to go', the Spanish form vaya (lit. go) is also used as a verbal discourse marker. Here we trace this transition from a purely verbal form to a discourse marker by searching a historical corpus of documents in Spanish, which reveals the increasing use over time of vaya in exclamatives to replace a presentational construction. We focus on vaya in isolation and in combination with an indefinit…
Romance exclamative markers at the syntax-pragmatics interface
In this paper I will analyze the set of markers that have been associated with exclamative sentence-type and exclamations in Romance, like Catalan ma, mira, que, and si, Italian guarda and che, or Spanish mira, que, si, and vaya. The hypothesis I will defend is that the meaning encoded by each of these markers contribute to create an exclamation speech act. I will show that we must first distinguish mirative markers like ma, mira or guarda, which…
The interaction between clause size and Voice
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.We argue that in certain reduced embedded clauses Voice behaves differently from ev-erywhere else, on the basis of tough-constructions (TCs) and modal passives (MPs) in Ital-ian and Catalan. These constructions involve an A-dependency targeting only internal ar-guments of morphologically active transitive infinitives (unlike control/raising/restructuringdependencies) be…
Exclamatives, try to be a bit more assertive
Trotzke and Giannakidou advance the strong hypothesis that exclamative sentences and exclamations can be reduced to a combination of three basic sentence-types (declaratives, interrogatives, and imperatives) with added intensity for emphasis. Moreover, they give convincing arguments for treating root exclamatives as clauses subordinated to an emotive predicate. In this commentary I briefly evaluate such claims on empirical and theoretical grounds
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