Publications

Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Real-Puigdollers, Cristina. 2025. Boundedness in locative prepositions: Evidence from Catalan. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 43(2), 867–905. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-024-09636-2

Bartra Kaufmann, Anna, Real Puigdollers, Cristina & Villalba, Xavier. 2026. Partitivity across domains: An introduction. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 25(1), 5–27. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.614

Borik, Olga & Teomiro, Iván. 2026. Commitment datives. Isogloss, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.532

Cyrino, Sonia. 2025. On low verbal negation in Brazilian Portuguese. Isogloss, 11(7), 1–33.33. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.569

Cyrino, Sonia & Espinal, M.Teresa (2026). French de nominals and Russian non-canonical genitives. Are they partitive-like nominal expressions?. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 25(1), 45–81. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.517

Espinal, M.Teresa & Cyrino, Sonia. 2025. Experiencers at the syntax-pragmatics interface. The case of the jo ‘I’ – construction in Catalan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 10. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.17284

Espinal, M.Teresa & Gianollo, Chiara. 2026. The non-partitivity of Catalan and Italian nominal ne. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 25(1), 83–117. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.518

Espinal, M.Teresa and Susagna Tubau. 2026. Negation: Diachronic Developments. In A. Ledgeway, M. Everaert, H. van Riemsdijk, E. Aldridge, A. Breitbarth, K. Kiss, J. Salmons and A. Simonenko (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic and Historical Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119898023.wbcdl108

Espinal, M.Teresa & Villalba, Xavier. 2025. Marcadores de discurso deverbales. In C. Company Company (Ed.), Sintaxis Histórica de la Lengua Española: Vol. IV. Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Fischer, Susann, & Villalba, Xavier. 2025. L’oració simple. Propietats bàsiques, ordre i elisió. In M. Pérez-Saldanya, J. Martines, G. Rigau, & J. Antolí (Eds.), Gramàtica del català antic (pp. 925–987). Universitat de València.

Francesch Sabaté, Pau. 2025. ‘Tu bells ulls tens he no y vols veure’: The grammaticalization of the ’hi’ clitic with Old Catalan and Romance verbs of perception. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 11(1), 1–47. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.617

Greco, Matteo. 2025. The expletive interpretation of the Ethical Dative: a syntactic approach to a non-argumental clitic. Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2024-0121

Jiménez‐Fernández, Ángel L., & Tubau, Susagna. 2025. Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish. Transactions of the Philological Society, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968x.70005

Kocher, Anna. 2026. Commitment attribution and root complementizers in Catalan. Isogloss, 12(2), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.520

Morosi, Paolo. 2025. Numberless indefinite definites in Italian: Structure and meaning. RLLT 26, eds. Pilar Barbosa, Cristina Flores, Esther Rinke, Eva-Maria Roessler. Special Issue of Isogloss, 11(7)/10, 1–35. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.566 

Morosi, Paolo, & Espinal, M. Teresa 2025. Indefinite definites in Italian. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 43, 2101–2138 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-025-09659-3

Puig-Mayenco, Eloi, & Judy, Tiffany. 2025. Unveiling DOM optionality in Central Catalan: Asymmetries between acceptance and processing. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 11(4), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.478

Real Puigdollers, Cristina. 2025. Low applicatives in Catalan: the case of ’veure-hi’. Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 14(1), 47–70. https://doi.org/10.7557/1.14.1.8069

Real-Puigdollers, Cristina, M.Teresa Espinal, & Xavier Villalba. 2025. Vaya in Spanish: From a judgment marker to a commitment marker. Journal of Historical Syntax, 9(2–10), 1–26. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18148/jhs/2025.v9i2-10.211

Rossi, Sarah, Chesi, Cristiano & Greco, Matteo. 2025. Not-ACC-ing and not-NOM-that constructions: A Comparative Study of English and Italian Expletive Negation. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 24(2), 1–37. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.496

Rossi, S., Chesi, C. and Greco, M. (2026) ‘The syntax of Expletive Negation in English: the case of not-ACC-ing constructions’, English Language and Linguistics, pp. 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S136067432510066X

Russo Cardona, Leonardo, Villalba, Xavier. 2025. The interaction between clause size and Voice: Evidence from Catalan and Italian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 10(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.19734

Tsiakmakis, Evripidis. 2025. A note on negation, focus, and bias in Greek polar questions. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 10(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.18163

Tsiakmakis, Evripidis. 2025. On the non-homogeneity of expletive negation in Greek and beyond. Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2024-0063

Tsiakmakis, Evripidis. 2025. On the Greek exclamative sentence type. Journal of Greek Linguistics 25(2), 267–295. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02502001.

van der Auwera, Jan, & Gianollo, Chiara (Eds.). (2024). Negative Concord: A Hundred Years On. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111202273

Villalba, Xavier. 2024a. Els adjectius expressius del català. Catalonia, 35. https://doi.org/10.4000/13gxl

Villalba, Xavier. 2024b. Expressive commitments. A normative approach to exclamations. International Review of Pragmatics, 16(1): 87–109. https://doi.org/10.1163/18773109-01601004

Villalba, X. 2024c. Romance exclamative markers at the syntax-pragmatics interface: A compositional approach to exclamativity. Journal of Pragmatics, 226: 64–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.04.004

Villalba, Xavier. 2025. Exclamatives, try to be a bit more assertive! Theoretical Linguistics, 51 (1-2), 131-142. https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2005       

Villalba, Xavier. 2025. Les oracions interrogatives i exclamatives. Les interjeccions. In M. Pérez-Saldanya, J. Martines, G. Rigau, & J. Antolí (Eds.), Gramàtica del català antic. Universitat de València.

Villalba, Xavier. forthcoming. The clause size of Romance infinitival relatives. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique. 

Villalba, Xavier, & Espinal, M.Teresa. 2026. eds. Expressive Meaning and Speech Acts. Leiden: De Gruyter Brill.