These are some of my publications and talks since 2012.

Some publications are listed under the year in which the first version of the manuscript was made available.

2024

PAPER Clausal doubling and verum marking in Spanish (with Matías Verdecchia). Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 42(3). <Lingbuzz> <Link>

2023

PAPER A cautionary comment on the morphological status of inclusive -e in Spanish. Borealis 12(1). <Lingbuzz> <Link>

PAPER La construcción de doblado clausal (o sobre qué significa repetir una oración). Lingüística 39(2). <Link>

PAPER Decimos de la prolepsis en español que involucra un tópico vinculante (with Fernando Carranza). Cuadernos de la ALFAL 15(2). <Link>

PAPER La sintaxis de las partículas discursivas: apuntes comparativos a partir del pero en posición final. To appear in Rosana Pascual, Daniel Romero & José Oliver (eds.), Problemas de gramática del español. La Plata: CEIL. <Preprint>

TALK El estudio de la Facultad del Lenguaje en las humanidades y más allá. Semester opening talk for the School of Language and Communication. August 17. Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Austral de Chile. <Slides>

TALK Pseudo-split wh-exclamatives in Chilean Spanish. Talk presented at the VII Spanish Dialects Meeting, November 27-28, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. <Handout>

TALK The pseudo-split exclamative construction in Chilean Spanish. Talk presented at Going Romance 2023. November 30 and December 1. Radboud University. <Slides>

TALK Nominal placeholders in South American Spanish varieties: the case of Rioplatense coso and Chilean este. Talk presented at LSRL 53. June 26-30. INALCO, Paris. <Slides>

2022

PAPER A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects (with Matías Verdecchia & Fernando Carranza). To appear in Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics (Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 18). <Lingbuzz> <Link>

PAPER La estructura informativa del doblado de predicados (with Matías Verdecchia). To appear in Lexis. <Preprint> <Link>

PAPER The morpho-phonology of nominal plurality in Argentinian Sign Language (LSA) (with Yanina Boria). To appear in Cilene Rodrigues & Andrés Saab (eds.),  Formal Approaches to the Languages of South America. Berlin: Springer. <Lingbuzz> <Link>

PAPER American Spanish dialects: Chile, Río de la Plata, Paraguay (with Andrés Saab). To appear in Ángel Gallego & Cristina Sánchez López (eds.), A Guide to Spanish Dialects: Descriptive and theoretical aspects of linguistic variation in the Hispanic world. Oxford: OUP. <Lingbuzz>

PAPER La reconciliación de Darwin y Ross (o sobre por qué las islas no son un rasgo arbitrario del lenguaje). To appear in D. Blanco, F. Giri, A. Gonzalo, y G. Parera (eds.), Darwin y la evolución del lenguaje humano. Santa Fe: Ediciones UNL. <Preprint>

TALK Doubling phenomena in Spanish: repeating propositions vs. repeating predicates (with Matías Verdecchia). Talk presented at Going Romance 2022. December 1-2. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. <Slides>

TALK Apuntes sobre la gramática del pero bahiense. Invited talk at the Instituto Superior N°3 “Dr. Julio César Avanza”. October 26.<Slides>

TALK Un breve estudio de caso sobre el lenguaje inclusivo en una línea generativa. Invited talk at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. September 30. <Slides> <Video>

TALK Information-based "island-effects" in Spanish clausal doubling (with Matías Verdecchia). Talk presented at GLOW 45. April 27. Queen Mary University of London. <Slides>

2021 

PAPER The ban on headless XP-movement is not narrow syntactic: evidence from emphatic doubling in Rioplatense Spanish. Cadernos de Estudos Linguisticos 63. <Lingbuzz> <Link>

SQUIB Focused verbal inflections in Spanish (with Matías Verdecchia). Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 7, 1-4. <Preprint>  <Link>

TALK Anticausative SE is an expletive: evidence from stylistic applicatives in Chilean Spanish. Talk presented at Going Romance 2021. December 1-3. University of Amsterdam. <Slides>

TALK La reconciliación de Darwin con las islas de extracción. Talk presented at the Simposio Iberoamericano de Filosofía de la Lingüística y biolingüística. November 26. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. <Slides>

TALK The expletive syntax of anticausative SE: insights from stylistic applicatives in Chilean Spanish. Talk presented at the V Spanish Dialects Meeting. Universidad de Extremadura. <Slides>

TALK Prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from infinitival clauses (with Matías Verdecchia & Fernando Carranza). Talk presented at the Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 51). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. <Handout>

TALK The expletive syntax of anticausatives: evidence from the stylistic LE phenomenon. Talk presented at the Institut für Romanistik (IROM). May 18. Hamburg University. <Slides>

TALK Prolepsis reasuntiva en español: similitudes y diferencias con otras construcciones (with Fernando Carranza). Talk presented at the symposium Procedimientos léxicos y gramaticales de vinculación de oraciones at the XVII Congreso SAEL. May 19. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. <Slides>

2020 

PAPER Towards a syntactic understanding of connective particles: the final pero phenomenon in Bahiense Spanish. Linguistic Variation 22(2). <Preprint> <Lingbuzz> <Link>

PAPER Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement (with Matías Verdecchia). Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 40. <Lingbuzz>  <Link>

SQUIB Island effects with infinitival hanging topics. Snippets 40. <Preprint> <Link>

PAPER Dos fenómenos de clíticos en el español de Santiago de Chile. Cuadernos de la ALFAL 12(2). <Preprint> <Link> 

TALK Algunos conceptos modernos de lingüística y gramática. Science communication talk presented at the Seminarios de Análisis y Reflexión. July 23. Asociación de Artes y Señas (ADAS). <Slides> 

POSTER Plurales nominales en LSA: restricciones en su exteriorización (with Yanina Boria). Poster presented at the International Virtual Conference in Sign Language Processing. July 2. University of the Republic (Uruguay). <Poster> 

TALK Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic copying (with Matías Verdecchia). Talk presented at the Comparative Syntax Meetings (ComSyn). February 13. Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL). <Handout> 

TALK Plurales nominales en LSA: el rol de los clasificadores (with Yanina Boria). Talk presented at the III ELBA Workshop. February 8. University of Buenos Aires. <Handout> 

TALK The structure of gaps: on the interaction of derivational order, economy and other sensible principles. Talk presented at the Syntax Interface Lectures. January 22. Utrecht University. <Handout> <Video> 

2019 

PAPER Algunas propiedades del llamado pero bahiense. Filología 50, 17-32. <Preprint> <Link>

PAPER A further argument for a syncretic analysis of DOM and dative in Spanish. Topics in Linguistics 21(1), 62-73.  <Preprint> <Link>

PAPER The syntax and semantics of approximate indefinites in Spanish (with Fernando Carranza). DELTA 36(1), 1-33. <Preprint> <Link>

TALK The syntax of discourse particles: a comparative discussion on Spanish pero. Talk presented at the III Spanish Dialects Meeting. October 14-15. University of Alcalá de Henares. <Slides> 

POSTER Reconstruction and the directionality of syntactic derivations. Poster presented at the 13th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris. October 2-4. CNRS & Université Paris 8. <Extended abstract> <Poster>

TALK On resumptive prolepsis in Spanish. Talk presented at the 2019 ALFALito in New York  (P12 Formal Grammar). September 19-20. Queens College, CUNY. <Handout>

TALK Final pero across varieties. Talk presented at the 2019 ALFALito in New York  (P14 Romania Nova). September 19-20. Queens College, CUNY. <Handout>

TALK 'Lo dicen así, pero': sobre el uso final de una conjunción adversativa en español. Talk presented at the Coloquio Permanente de Lingüística y Traducción. August 29. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. <Slides>

TALK El estudio de la Facultad del Lenguaje. Part of the plenary session Gramática: perspectivas y debates at the IV Jornadas de Jóvenes Lingüistas. August 2. Universidad de Buenos Aires. <Slides>

TALK El llamado pero bahiense: propiedades básicas y análisis comparativo. Talk presented at the Instituto de Filología y Literaturas Hispánicas "Dr. Amado Alonso". June 13. Universidad de Buenos Aires. <Handout>

TALK Relativas libres y reasunción: un nuevo argumento para el análisis sincrético de DOM y dativo. Talk presented at the symposium Coordinación y subordinación como estrategias combinatorias interoracionales (III Congreso de la Delegación Argentina de ALFAL). April 24-27. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. <Slides>

TALK Un análisis del aproximativo formado por artículo indefinido+cardinal (with Fernando Carranza). Talk presented at the symposium Lingüística Formal (III Congreso de la Delegación Argentina de ALFAL). April 24-27. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. <Handout>

2018 

PAPER Recognizing copies: On the definition of Non-Distinctiveness. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3(1). Part of the Special Collection ‘What drives syntactic computation?’ edited by Dennis Ott & Radek Šimík. <Preprint> <Link>

PAPER Jerarquía y linealidad: acerca de la distribución de los gaps de desplazamiento. Quintú Quimün: Revista de lingüística 2. <Link>

PAPER What is in a trace? Accounting for reconstruction patterns in parasitic gaps. In Adeilson Sedrins, Marcelo Sibaldo & Dorothy Brito (eds.), Adjuncts in the Generative Grammar. Recife: Editora Universitaria da UFRPE. <Lingbuzz> <Link>

SQUIB Antisymmetry and adpositional agreement. Manuscript, Universidad de Buenos Aires & Newcastle University. <PDF>

PAPER Caso y diátesis (with Augusto Trombetta). In M. Giammatteo (ed.), Las categorías lingüísticas. Buenos Aires: Waldhuter. ISBN 978-987-4916-07-5 <Preprint>

TALK Headless XP-movement leads to ambiguity. Talk presented at the Workshop on Form-Meaning Mismatches in Natural Language (FMM2018). August 3. University of Göttingen. <Handout>

TALK Non-redundancy: towards a unified approach to movement and construal. Talk presented at the Oberseminar of the Seminar für Englische Philologie. July 10. University of Göttingen. <Handout>

TALK Secuencias de complementantes y restricciones de movimiento-wh: el caso de que si (with Fernando Carranza). Talk presented at the colloquium Relaciones Interoracionales en la Gramática y en el Texto (XVI Congreso de la Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Lingüísticos). July 3-6. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. <Handout>

TALK Cardinales aproximados en contextos de expresiones con artículo indeterminado (with Fernando Carranza). Talk presented at the colloquium Las interfaces del lenguaje: debates, problemas teóricos y empíricos (XVI Congreso de la Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Lingüísticos). July 3-6. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. <Handout>

TALK Case mismatches in Spanish free relatives: the view from clitic left dislocation. Talk presented at the North East Language and Linguistics (NELLi) Away Day. June 28. Newcastle University. <Slides>

TALK Representational economy and interpretability constrain the shape of chains. Talk presented at the 28th Colloquium on Generative Grammar. May 31 - June 1. Universitat Rovira i Virgili. <Handout>

TALK Final pero as a discourse particle in Bahiense Spanish. Talk presented at II Spanish Dialects Meeting. May 17-18. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. <Slides>

TALK Copies and impostors: on the properties of verbal doubling in Spanish. Talk presented at the Percy Series in Linguistics Seminars. May 9. Newcastle University. <Handout>

TALK The shape of chains: on the interaction between interpretability and non-redundancy. Talk presented at mFiL 2018 (Manchester Forum in Linguistics 2018). April 26-27. The University of Manchester. <Handout>

TALK Non-distinctiveness, chain formation and parasitic gaps. Talk presented at Adjuncts (III GETEGRA International Workshop). March 22-23. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. <Handout>

2017 

THESIS Cadenas e Interfaces. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Buenos Aires. <PDF> <Institutional Repository>

PAPER Lo que oculta el silencio. El problema de la isomorfía entre filler y gap. Saga: Revista de Letras 7. Part of the dossier  ‘Las interfaces del lenguaje en la lingüística generativa’ edited by Marcela Bassano and Silvia Rivero. <Preprint> <Link>

TALK Predicate doubling in Spanish: an analysis based on informational structure. Talk presented at Going Romance 31. December 7-9. University of Bucharest. <Handout>

TALK The headless XP-movement restriction: A prosodic account. Talk presented at the Workshop on Linguistic Variation at the Interfaces (VARINT 17). November 16-17. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. <Handout>

TALK Linearity determines chain pronunciation. Talk presented at the II ELBA Workshop. February 11. IES Lenguas Vivas. <Slides>

2016 

PAPER Deactivation Values. Manuscript, Universidad de Buenos Aires. <PDF>

PAPER Three explanatory challenges for Copy Theory. In K. Bellamy, E. Karvovskaya, M. Kohlberger & G. Saad (eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE XXIII). Leiden: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. <Link>

PAPER There is no need for Late Merger. In E. Pilati (ed.), Temas em Teoria Gerativa: Homenagem a Lucia Lobato. Curitiba: Blanche. <Preprint>

TALK Focus structure and verbal doubling in Spanish. Talk presented at the VIII Romania Nova Workshop. November 23-26. Universidad de Buenos Aires. <Handout>

TALK Antisimetría y evolución. Talk presented at the XIII Jornadas de Comunicación de Investigación en Filosofía. October 13-15. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. <Slides>

TALK La hipótesis de determinación lineal de categorías vacías. Talk presented at the Coloquio de Investigaciones en Gramática y Léxico. May 11-14. INCIHUSA. <Slides>

TALK Sobre la interpretabilidad de lo no interpretable. Talk presented at the workshop Estado actual de los estudios en torno a las interfaces lingüísticas (XV Congreso de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística). May 11-14. Universidad Nacional del Sur. <Slides>

TALK Efectos de Anti-Reconstrucción con CLLD. Talk presented at the symposium Temas de Gramática Teórica y Aplicada (XV Congreso de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística). May 11-14. Universidad Nacional del Sur. <Handout>

2015

TALK On the non-Isomorphism of Chains. Talk presented at the Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico (SADAF). September  9. <Handout>

TALK There is no need for Late Merger. Talk presented at the III Congresso Internacional de Estudos Linguísticos (CIEL III). August 24-28. Universidade de Brasília. <Handout>

TALK Interfaces on chains: a post-syntactic approach to chain formation. Talk presented at the VII Encuentro de Gramática Generativa. July  29-31. Universidad de Buenos Aires. <Handout>

TALK On the effects of partial copying on chain formation. Talk presented at the 12th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology. June 26. Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. <Handout>

TALK Dialectal variations regarding the EPP. Talk presented at Formal Approaches to Morphosyntactic Variation (FAMSV). June 24-25. Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. <Handout>

TALK A mechanism of non-pronunciation for QR. Talk presented at II Jornadas Patagónicas de Lingüística Formal. April 23-25. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. <Handout>

TALK On post-syntactic chain formation and intermediate movement. Talk presented at the workshop What drives syntactic computation? Alternatives to formal features (AG3 - DGfS 37). March 4-6. Universität Leipzig. <Handout>

TALK Chain formation as inclusion relations between copies. Talk presented at Console XXIII. January 7-9. Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7. <Handout>

POSTER Chain formation as inclusion relations at the interfaces. Poster presented at Generative Syntax in the Twenty-First Century: the Road Ahead. May 28-30. University of Athens. <Poster>

POSTER The Challenges of Copy Theory: an inclusion-based approach. Poster presented at LOT Winter School 2015. January 12-23. Universiteit van Amsterdam. <Poster>

2014

SQUIB Dominican ello as a non-deleted null expletive. Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics Vol 3, No 1. <Link> 

PAPER Una nota acerca del uso de juicios en teoría gramatical. Signo y Seña 26. <Link>

PAPER Cayó la yuta: basta de contrabando en la construcción pasiva. In Angelita Martínez & Adriana Speranza (eds.), Proceedings of the  I Congreso de la Delegación Argentina de la ALFAL y V Jornadas Internacionales de Filología Hispánica. <Preprint> <Link>

TALK An inclusion-based mechanism of chain formation and some of its consequences. Talk presented at the Oberseminar of the Seminar für Englische Philologie. November 11. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. <Handout>

TALK Formas interrogativas en Lengua de Señas Argentina: un esbozo de análisis (with Yanina Boria). Talk presented at the XIV Congreso de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística (SAL). April 22-25. Universidad Nacional de Catamarca. <Handout>

2013

PAPER Alternativas conceptuales a la proyección de núcleos. In M. Giammatteo, L. Ferrari & H. Albano (eds.), Léxico y Sintaxis. Mendoza: Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 137-150. <Preprint>

PAPER Sobre las construcciones relativas en español (with Natalia Giollo). In A. Marcovecchio, A. Ghío y M. Cuñarro (eds.), En torno a la morfosintaxis del español. Mendoza: Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 49-59. <Preprint>

TALK On deriving ello from the Copy Theory of Movement. Talk presented at the VI Romania Nova Workshop. February 1-2. Universidade Federal do Pará. <Handout>

TALK Un acercamiento a la Teoría de la Copia desde la Teoría de Conjuntos. Talk presented at the VI Encuentro de Gramática Generativa. August 8-10. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. <Handout>

TALK Una revisión crítica del modelado de las dependencias no acotadas. Talk presented at the Encuentro Iberoamericano de Historia y Filosofía de la Lingüística Generativa. September 3. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. <Slides>

2012

PAPER Sobre la estructura sintagmática de la aposición explicativa. Boletín de Filología de la Universidad de Chile XLVII, 133-148. <Link>

PAPER Indagaciones sobre el origen biológico del caso morfológico: una perspectiva gramatical. Lengua y Habla: Revista del Centro de Investigación y Atención Lingüística Vol. 16, 100-118. <Link>

PAPER Asimetría en la elicitación de cláusulas relativas: un estudio sobre el español rioplatense (with María Sol Lago). Revista Virtual de Estudos da Linguagem (ReVEL) 18, 64-83. <Link>

TALK Una crítica a la No Interpretabilidad. Presented at the V Congreso Internacional de Letras de la UBA. November 27 - December 1. Universidad de Buenos Aires. <Handout>