Publications

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

Russo Cardona, L. & Villalba, X. 2025. The interaction between clause size and Voice: Evidence from Catalan and Italian. Glossa 10(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.19734

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

Real Puigdollers, C.; Espinal, M.T.; Villalba, X. 2025. Vaya in Spanish. From a judgment to a commitment marker. Journal of Historical Syntax. 9 (2–10). https://doi.org/10.18148/hs/2025.v9i2-10.211

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

Villalba, X. 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

Espinal, M.T.; Real-Puigdollers, C.; Villalba, X. 2024. From a movement verb to an epistemic discourse marker. Linguistic Variation 24(1): 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.22006.esp

Villalba, X. 2023. La puntuació i l’estructura informativa [Punctuation and information structure]. Revista de Gramática Orientada a las Competencias 6.1: 67-77. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/regroc.80

Villalba, X. 2022. The Functional Structure of Infinitive Relatives in Romance Consequences for the Cartographic Approach. Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale 56: 136-158. https://doi.org/10.30687/annoc/2499-1562/2022/10/008

Brunetti, L.; Mayol, L.; Villalba, X. 2020. Bridging Strength, Monotonicity, and Word Order Choices in Catalan. Discourse Processes 57(8): 703-724. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2020.1768623

Trotzke, A.; Villalba, X. 2020. Exclamatives as responses at the syntax-pragmatics interface. Journal of Pragmatics 168: 139-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.06.012

Villalba, X.; Planas-Morales, S. 2020. Complementantes preposicionales en las relativas de infinitivo [Prepositional complementizers in infinitive relatives]. Revista de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística 50(2): 83-106. https://doi.org/10.31810/RSEL.50.2.4

Villalba, X. 2019. Infinitive Wh-Relatives in Romance: Consequences for the Truncation-versus-Intervention Debate. Syntax 22(2/3): 303-335. https://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12183

Villalba, X.; Planas-Morales, S. 2018. La partición foco-trasfondo en las oraciones interrogativas del catalán y del español: estudio de corpus [The focus-background partition in Catalan and Spanish interrogative sentences: A corpus study]. Normas. Revista de estudios lingüísticos hispánicos 8(1): 43-60. https://doi.org/10.7203/NORMAS.V8I1.13325

Villalba, X. 2016. L’evolució de les oracions exclamatives-qu de grau en català [The evolution of wh-exclamative sentences in Catalan]. Caplletra 60 : 211-226. https://doi.org/10.7203/caplletra.60.8454

Espinal, M.T.; Villalba, X. 2015. Ambiguity resolution and information structure. The Linguistic Review 32(1): 61-85. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2014-0015

Planas-Morales, S.; Villalba, X. 2013. The right periphery of interrogatives in Catalan and Spanish: Syntax/prosody interactions. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 12: 193-217. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.72

Villalba, X. 2013a. Eventive existentials in Catalan and the topic-focus articulation. Italian Journal of Linguistics 25(1): 147 - 173.

Villalba, X. 2013b. Eventualities under deadjectival nominalizations. Borealis. An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 2(2): 241-259. https://doi.org/10.7557/1.2.2.2617

Villalba, X.; Mayol, L. 2013. Right-dislocation in Catalan: Tails, Polarity and Activation. International Review of Pragmatics 5: 87-116. https://doi.org/10.1163/18773109-13050104

Villalba, X. 2011a. A quantitative comparative study of right-dislocation in Catalan and Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics 43: 1946-1961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2011.01.002

Villalba, X. 2011b. The HISPACAT comparative database of syntactic constructions and its applications to syntactic variation research. Oslo studies in language 3(2): 129-145. https://doi.org/10.5617/osla.57

Villalba, X.; Bartra-Kaufmann, A. 2010. Predicate Focus Fronting in the Spanish Determiner Phrase. Lingua 120: 819-849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2008.07.010

Villalba, X. 2008a. Exclamatives: A thematic guide with many questions and few answers. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 7: 9-40. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.131

Villalba, X. 2008b. The Focus-Background Articulation in Spanish Qualitative Binominal NPs. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 7(2): 131-149. https://doi.org/10.5334/jpl.131

Villalba, X. 2007a. La dislocació a la dreta en català i castellà: microvariació en la interfície sintaxi/pragmàtica [Right dislocation in Catalan and Spanish: Microvariation at the Syntax/Pragmatics interface]. Caplletra 42: 53-68.

Villalba, X. 2007b. True and spurious articles in Germanic and Romance. Cuadernos de Lingüística 14: 121-134.

Villalba, X. 2004. Descripció i norma: amb i el canvi de preposició [Description and norm: with and preposition change]. Llengua & Literatura 15: 257-276.

Villalba, X. 2003. An exceptional exclamative sentence type in Romance. Lingua 113(8): 713-745. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0024-3841(02)00117-1

Villalba, X. 2002. Dos tipus d’oracions exclamatives en català [Two kinds of exclamative sentences in Catalan]. Els Marges 69: 83-95.

Villalba, X. 2001. The right-periphery of exclamative sentences in Catalan. Catalan Working Papers in Linguistics 9. 119-135.

Villalba, X. 1999a. Nihil Est in LF Quod Prius Non Fuerit in SS. Catalan Working Papers in Linguistics 7: 239-252.

Villalba, X. 1999b. Symmetry and antisymmetry in syntax. Syntaxis 2: 1-25.

Villalba, X. 1996. Sobre la dislocació a la dreta [On right-dislocation]. Llengua & Literatura 7: 209-234.

Villalba, X. 1992. Case, Incorporation, and Economy: An Approach to Causative Constructions. Catalan Working Papers in Linguistics 2: 345-389.

Villalba, X.; Espinal, M.T. (Eds.). in press. Expressive Meaning and Speech Acts. Leiden: De Gruyter Brill.

Trotzke, A.; Villalba, X. (Eds.). 2021. Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Villalba, X. 2019. El orden de palabras en contraste [Word order in contrast]. Madrid: Arco Libros.

Villalba, X. 2010. El orden de las palabras en español [Word order in Spanish]. Madrid: Castalia.

Villalba, X. 2009. The Syntax and Semantics of Dislocations in Catalan. Cologne: Lambert Academic Publishing.

Villalba, X. 2004. Diccionari Ballesta de gramática generativa [Ballesta’s dictionary of generative grammar]. Bellaterra: Publicacions de la UAB.

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

Fischer, S., & Villalba, X. 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.

Villalba, X. 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, X. 2023. Exclamatives: An overview. In S. Guesser; A. Marchesan; P. Medeiros (eds.), Wh-exclamatives, Imperatives and Wh-questions, 23-52. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Trotzke, A.; Villalba, X. 2021. Expressive insubordination: A cross-linguistic study on that-exclamatives. In A. Trotzke; X. Villalba (Eds.), Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks, 108-120. Oxford University Press.

Villalba, X. 2021. La estructura informativa. En la interfaz entre la sintaxis y la semántica [Information structure. At the syntax/semantics interface]. In M. Leonetti; M. V. Escandell-Vidal (Eds.), La estructura informativa [Information structure], 185-216. Madrid: Visor Libros.

Feldhausen, I., Villalba, X. 2020. Modality and Information Structure: Focus, Dislocation, Interrogative and Exclamatory Sentences. In J. A. Argenter & J. Lüdtke (Eds.), Manual of Catalan Linguistics, 247–270. De Gruyter.

Villalba, X. 2020. Scoping in degree exclamative sentences. In M. González-Rivera; S. Sessarego (eds.) Interface-Driven Phenomena in Spanish, 131-144. London: Routledge.

Mayol, L., Villalba, X. 2018. Bridging and dislocation in Catalan. In L. Repetti; F. Ordóñez (Eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory. Vol. 14, 201-213. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Villalba, X. 2017a. At-issue material in Spanish degree exclamatives: An experimental study. In I. Bosque (ed.) Advances in the analysis of Spanish exclamatives, 129-158. The Ohio State University Press.

Villalba, X. 2017b. Exclamatives, imperatives, optatives. In A. Dufter; E. Stark (eds.), Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax, 603-646. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Villalba, X. 2016a. Definiteness effect, pronouns and information structure in Catalan existentials. In S. Fischer; T. Kupisch; E. Rinke (eds.), Definiteness effects: Bilingual, typological and diachronic variation, 172-209. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Villalba, X. 2016b. Oraciones exclamativas [Exclamative sentences]. In J. Gutiérrez-Rexach (ed.), Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica, vol. 1, 737-749. London: Routledge.

Villalba, X.; Planas-Morales, S. 2015. Microinformática. Modelos de variación informativa microparamétrica [Micro-informatics. Models of microparametric information variation]. In A. Gordejuela, D. Izquierdo, F. Jiménez-Berrio, A. de Lucas; M. Casado (eds.), Lenguas, lenguaje y lingüística. Contribuciones desde la Lingüística General, 507-516. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra.

Bartra-Kaufman, A., Villalba, X. 2006a. Agreement and Predicate Inversion in Spanish DP. In Jenny Doetjes & Paz González (Eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004 Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Leiden, 9–11 December 2004, 23–41. John Benjamins.

Bartra-Kaufmann, A.; Villalba, X. 2006b. Spanish non-Agreeing Quantificational Nominals. In L. Brugè (ed.), Studies in Spanish Syntax, 15-46. Libreria Editrice Ca Foscarina.

Villalba, X. 2004. Les combinacions lexiques i el sentit figurat [Lexical combinations and figurative sense]. In T. Cabré (Ed.), Lingüística Teòrica: anàlisi i perspectives, I, 67-74. Servei de Publicacions de la UAB.

Villalba, X. 2002. La subordinació [Subordination]. In J. Solà; J. Mascaró; M.R. Lloret; M. Pérez-Saldanya (eds.), Gramàtica del català contemporani, vol. 3, 2247-2319. Barcelona: Empúries.

Villalba, X. 1999. Right Dislocation is not right dislocation. In O. Fullana; F. Roca (Eds.), Studies on the Syntax of Central Romance Languages. 227-241. Universitat de Girona.