Differential object marking and topicality: The case of Balearic Catalan
- M. V. Escandell-Vidal
- 2009
Linguistics
A correlation can be found between formal properties and well-motivated discourse functions that explains the distribution of DOM in Balearic, suggesting that topicality is relevant to account for both intra- and interlinguistic variation in DOM.
Simple Future of Spanish. Natural System Versus Cultivated Uses
- M. V. Escandell-Vidal
- 18 January 2019
Linguistics
The aim of this paper is to show that the attested diversity of interpretations of the Spanish simple future does not result from an inherent polysemy, but rather from the coexistence of two…
Estar+ILP
- M. V. Escandell-Vidal
- 24 August 2023
Linguistics
A sentence like María está muy guapa (‘María looks very pretty’) attributes the property of being
pretty to María but also conveys the assumption that the state-of-affairs described is based on…