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    • Feb 10, 2022
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Historical syntax of Spanish finite clauses

I have worked on the syntactic diachrony of finite clauses introduced by (functional) prepositions in the history of Spanish, with a comparative perspective (Portuguese, French, Italian). You can read about this in these publications:


-2013. Prepositional Clauses in Spanish. A Diachronic and Comparative Syntactic Study. Berlin: De Gruyter.


-2014.“Dequeísmo and queísmo in Portuguese and Spanish”. In P. Amaral and A. M. Carvalho (eds.): Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces. Diachrony, synchrony, and contact, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 95-120.


-2013. “Clausal substantivization in Spanish: syntax and constraints”, Australian Journal of Linguistics 33.2: 106-120.


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