publications
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2024
The roots and structures of possessive noun classes. Isogloss Volume 10, No. 6 [Open access: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/issue/view/v10-n6 ]
Los preverbos en maya yucateco. (with Scott AnderBois & Edber Dzidz Yam). Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México volume 11 [Open access: https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/309]
Grammatical object passives in Yucatec Spanish. Languages 2024 9(1), 24. [Open access: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/1/24]
Yucatec Maya preverbs and semantic typology of adverbs. In M. Calderón-Corona, P. Kasyanova & E. Neu (eds.) SULA 12: Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Under-represented Languages in the Americas. (with Scott AnderBois & Edber Dzidz Yam). [Pre-pub pdf]
2023
Spanish loan verbs in Yucatec Maya. In M. Waltermire & K. Bove Mutual Influence in Situations of Spanish Language Contact in the Americas, 71-92 [Restricted access: https://www.routledge.com/Mutual-Influence-in-Situations-of-Spanish-Language-Contact-in-the-Americas/Waltermire-Bove/p/book/9780367651305] [Pre-pub pdf]
2021
Te puse la mano en el hombro ‘I put my hand on your shoulder’: A solution to a puzzling constraint on multiple external possession relations in Spanish. Isogloss 7/10: 1-28 [Open access: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/issue/view/11]
Unraveling the Complexity of SE, edited by G. Armstrong & J. MacDonald. Dordrecht: Springer. [Restricted access: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030570033]
A guide to understanding SE constructions: where they come from and how they are connected . In G. Armstrong & J. MacDonald (eds.) Unraveling the Complexity of SE, 1-30. (with Jonathan MacDonald) Dordrecht: Springer. [Restricted access: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030570033] [Pre-pub pdf]
Causative SE: a transitive analysis. In G. Armstrong & J. MacDonald (eds.) Unraveling the Complexity of SE, 219-241. Dordrecht: Springer. (with Paula Kempchinsky). [Restricted access: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030570033] [Pre-pub pdf]
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology, edited by A. Fábregas, V. Acedo-Matellán, G. Armstrong, M.C. Cuervo & I. Pujol Payet Abingdon: Routledge. [Restricted access: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Spanish-Morphology/Fabregas-Acedo-Matellan-Armstrong-Cuervo-Payet/p/book/9780367331573]
Allomorphy and suppletion. In A. Fábregas, V. Acedo-Matellán, G. Armstrong, M.C. Cuervo & I. Pujol Payet (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology, 347-360. Abingdon: Routledge. [Restricted access: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Spanish-Morphology/Fabregas-Acedo-Matellan-Armstrong-Cuervo-Payet/p/book/9780367331573] [Pre-pub pdf]
2018
Lexis (word-level meaning). In K. Geeslin (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics, 415-436. Cambridge University Press. [Restricted access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-spanish-linguistics/25D20CE8F2C07A9AD89F3CC4F1C2BE2E] [Pre-pub pdf]
2017
The syntax of non-verbal predication in Yucatec Maya. Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México 4(2): 137-212. [Open access: https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/issue/view/6]
SE-marked directed motion constructions: anticausatives and figure reflexives. In J. MacDonald (ed.) Contemporary trends in Hispanic & Lusophone Linguistics, 11-30. [Restricted access: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ihll.15] [Pre-pub pdf]
Spanish participios activos are adjectival antipassives. The Linguistic Review 34(1): 1-37. [Restricted access: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/tlir/34/1/html] [Pre-pub pdf]
2016
Una “buena” manera de hablar acerca de grados: bien con adjetivos en español. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 9(2): 401-427 (with Alberto Pastor). [Restricted access: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/shll/9/2/html] [Pre-pub pdf]
Towards a theory of pronominal verb constructions in Spanish. In A. Cuza, L. Czerwionka & D. Olson (eds.) Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics, 21-38. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [Restricted access: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ihll.12] [Pre-pub pdf]
Spanish unspecified objects as null incorporated nouns. Probus 28: 165-230. [Restricted access: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/prbs/28/2/html] [Pre-pub pdf]
Pronominal verbs in Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 9(1): 29-65. [Restricted access: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/shll/9/1/html] [Pre-pub pdf]
2014
The Syntax and Semantics of Personal Dative Constructions in Appalachian English. In L. Horn & R. Zannuttini (eds.) Micro-syntactic Variation in North American English, pp. 178-213 Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (with Corinne Hutchinson). [Restricted access: https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199367221.001.0001/acprof-9780199367221] [Pre-pub pdf]
2013
Agentive Reflexive Clitics and Transitive se Constructions in Spanish. Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 2/2: 81-128. [Open access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/issue/view/231]
2012
On the adjectival component of change of state verbs in Spanish. In M.C. Cuervo & Y. Roberge (eds.) The End of Argument Structure? (Syntax and Semantics series, v. 38), pp. 13-41. Bingley, UK: Emerald Press. [Restricted access: https://brill.com/view/title/23191] [Pre-pub pdf]
2011
Two Classes of Transitive Verbs: Evidence from Spanish (PhD Dissertation, Georgetown University) [pdf]
2009
On copular sentences in Yucatec Maya. Proceedings of the 4th Congreso internacional de idiomas indígenas de Latinoamérica (CIILA IV). [Open access: https://ailla.utexas.org/node/96]