Writings

(Please email me for handouts and papers)

Books and edited collections

Monographs

2022f. The grammar of the utterance: how to do things with Ibero-Romance. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [link to abstract, table of contents and sample]

Edited collections

2023e. Theoretical linguistics in the pre-university classroom. Oxford: British Academy/Oxford University Press. Edited with Anna Pineda.

2023d. Romance grammars: context and contact. Special issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 9(2). Edited with Norma Schifano.

Articles and chapters

2026b. Variation and change in West Iberian complementation. In M. Delicado Cantero, F. Tejedo-Herrero, & P. Amaral (eds.), Diachronic divergences in West Iberian languages. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. With Kim Groothuis. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111279497-010 [ftc]

2026a. Language teaching needs language science: A manifesto for linguistics and language teaching in the United Kingdom. In Stephan Nitu & Arlene Holmes-Henderson (eds.), Humanities Forward: Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. With Michelle Sheehan, Jonathan Kasstan, Anna Havinga, Norma Schifano, Sascha Stollhans. [ftc]

2024c. Differential marking of direct objects in Monastirli džudezmu: a case study in Judeo-Spanish morphosyntax. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 140(2): 484–523. https://doi.org/10.1515/zrp-2024-0023

2024b. Addressing the UK’s ‘languages crisis’: moving beyond skills-based language teaching through the inclusion of linguistics in secondary education. Languages, Society and Policy. With Anna Havinga, Sascha Stollhans, Alice Corr, Jonathan Kasstan, Norma Schifano, Michelle Sheehan.

2024a. Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co-creation project on French, German and Spanish. British Educational Research Journal 50(4): 1935-1961. With Michelle Sheehan, Anna Havinga, Jonathan Kasstan, Sascha Stollhans, Alice Corr, Peter Gillman. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4009

2023c. Theoretical linguistics in non-university education. In Alice Corr & Anna Pineda (eds.), Theoretical linguistics in the pre-university classroom, 3-42. Oxford: British Academy/Oxford University Press. With Anna Pineda. [doi / preprint]

2023b. Epilogue: Moving forward with linguistics in schools. In Alice Corr & Anna Pineda (eds.), Theoretical linguistics in the pre-university classroom, 281-288. Oxford: British Academy/Oxford University Press. With Anna Pineda. [doi / preprint]

2023a. Romance grammars in context and contact: introduction to the Special Issue. Isogloss (Romance grammars: context and contact). 9(2)/1, 1-6. With Norma Schifano. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.301

2022e. Address inversion in southern Italian dialects. Isogloss 8(4)/11, 1-37. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.168

2022d. Numeral reduplication and clausal syntax: grammaticalized distributivity in Medieval Iberia. Probus 34:2, 317–365. https://doi.org/10.1515/probus-2022-0012

2022c. The Romance Inter-Views: Cartography. Isogloss 8(1)/6, 1-10. With Enoch O. Aboh, Guglielmo Cinque, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo, Gillian Ramchand, Vieri Samek-Lodovici. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.246

2022b. Speech acts, discourse and clause type. In Adam Ledgeway & Martin Maiden (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics, 728-762. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. With Nicola Munaro.

2022a. Interpreting reduplicated numerals in Old Ibero-Romance: A syntactic account. In Gabriela Alboiu & Ruth King (eds.), Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Meeting of the Linguistic Symposium of the Romance Languages, Toronto 25-28 April 2018, 178–192. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.13.06cor

2021c. Linguística, ensino e a perspectiva do professor: um primeiro olhar. Revista Linguíʃtica 17:2, 57-83. With Ana Calindro. https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2021.v17n2a48293

2021b. Rethinking the UK languages curriculum: arguments for the inclusion of linguistics. Modern Languages Open 2021(1):14, 1–24. With Michelle Sheehan, Anna Havinga, Jonathan Kasstan, and Norma Schifano. https://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.368

2021a. The DfE/Ofqual consultation on revised GCSE qualifications in Modern Foreign Languages – a view from linguistics. Languages, Society and Policy, 26 April. With Michelle Sheehan, Anna Havinga, Jonathan Kasstan, Norma Schifano, and Sascha Stollhans.

2019. A place for linguistics in Key Stage 5 Modern Foreign Languages. Appears jointly in Languages, Society and Policy and Impact: Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching. With Jonathan Kasstan and Michelle Sheehan. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40156

2018c. ‘Exclamative’ and ‘quotative’ illocutionary complementisers in Catalan, European Portuguese and Spanish: a study in Ibero-Romance syntactic ‘near-synonmy’. Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics 18(1), 72-101. https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.00004.cor

2018b. Matrix complementizers and ‘speech act’ syntax: formalizing insubordination in Catalan and Spanish. In Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Dominique Nouveau (eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 13 Selected Papers from ‘Going Romance’ 29, Nijmegen, 75-93. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.13.06cor

2018a. The syntax of Ibero-Romance quotation. In Gabriela Pană Dindelegan, Rodica Zafiu, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae, Irina Nicula Paraschiv (eds.), Comparative and Diachronic Perspectives on Romance Syntax, 255-287. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishin

2017d. The grammaticalization of epistemicity in Ibero-Romance: alike processes; unlike outcomes. Journal of Historical Linguistics 7(1/2), 49-77. http://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.7.1-2.03cor

2016b. Wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance: a locative account. Glossa: a Journal of General Linguistics 1(1): 11. 1–33. http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.85

2016a. El cambio lingüístico y la interfaz sintaxis-pragmática: evidencias de las lenguas ibero-románicas. Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México 3 (1), 73-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.24201/clecm.v3i1.27

2015b. Overt expletives in Ibero-Romance: a diachronic and diatopic perspective. Revue roumaine de linguistique 60 (2-3 Special issue on syntactic variation), 205-221.

2015a. De la sintaxis a la pragmática: el desarrollo del expletivo ibérico desde el español medieval hasta la actualidad. Armonía y contrastes. Estudios de variación dialectal, histórica y sociolingüística del español, Colección Lingüística Hispánica 2, 249-263.

2023/Submitted. Language ideologies. In K. McAuliffe & L. Solan (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Law and Language. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

2025/Submitted. Corr, A.; Sheehan, M.; Havinga, A. D.; Kasstan, J. R.; Schifano, N.; Stollhans, S. Forthcoming. Linguistics in Education. In The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics, ed. by Howard Mann, Alice Gaby and Anna Margetts (Routledge).

Theses and dissertations

2017c. Ibero-Romance and the syntax of the utterance. PhD thesis. University of Cambridge. https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003386

2012. Subject inversion in Ibero-Romance. MPhil thesis. University of Cambridge. https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001704

2011. A critical critical overview of task-supported language learning and its application in secondary education. Master’s thesis, University of León, Spain.

Reviews

2017b. W. Leo Wetzels, João Costa & Sergio Menuzzi (eds.), The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics. Estudos de lingüística galega 9, 130-133.

2017a. Carrilho, Ernestina, Alexandra Fiéis, Maria Lobo & Sandra Pereira (eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 28, [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2018. Iberia: an International Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 9. 36-57.

Manuscripts

2023. Set for survivance.

2021. Reduplicated numerals in Old Ibero-Romance: Distributivity, possession and contact-induced change.

2020. Romance vocatives and the grammar-discourse interface.

2019. Doing things with grammar? Towards explanatory adequacy.

2015. Construções com ‘ello’ nas lenguas ibero-românicas: evidência de um expletivo sujeito visível?