Projects
Subject personal pronouns in Caribbean Spanish: The interplay of markedness of coding, statistical preemption, and structural priming. KU Leuven
In Spanish, speakers may refer to non-contrastive human-reference subjects with a combination of a subject personal pronoun (SPP) and the person-number ending of the verb (e.g., Yo trabajo I work) or only with the person-number ending (e.g., Trabajo [I] work). Earlier research has shown that the use of a SPP is more likely when the reference of the subject differs from that of the subject of the previous sentence, with first- and ...
Counterfactuals in the History of Greek: An Enriched Diachronic Typology using a Context-Sensitive Evolutionary Model. Ghent University
This project analyses counterfactual constructions in the history of Ancient Greek (from 750BCE to 100CE). These counterfactuals are largely unstudied and more diverse in types than analysed before in linguistics. Previous research has yielded premature generalizations on the nature and evolution of counterfactuals. Therefore I will develop a quantifiable context-sensitive evolutionary model to provide an enriched diachronic typology of ...