Papers by Violeta Vázquez-Rojas
Revista de la Universidad de México, 2020
International Journal of American Linguistics, 2018
In this paper we propose a novel analysis of the Yucatec Maya determiner le … o’. Based on elicit... more In this paper we propose a novel analysis of the Yucatec Maya determiner le … o’. Based on elicited and text data, we argue that this determiner may have demonstrative uses, but we show that it is primarily a definite article, since it can locate a referent in any of four domains of the universe of discourse (García Fajardo 1994). We compare the range of uses of le … o’ to those of other definite determiners found in Yucatec Maya to support this conclusion.
The primary purpose of this paper is to describe how polarity items are licensed in Catalan and S... more The primary purpose of this paper is to describe how polarity items are licensed in Catalan and Spanish. To this aim, we offer an account addressing two wide questions: (i) What are the licens-ing conditions for polarity items (PIs henceforth) in each of these languages, what do they have
Word-order variations within the noun phrase usually correspond to semantic or pragmatic contrast... more Word-order variations within the noun phrase usually correspond to semantic or pragmatic contrasts. In this paper, I present new data from Shupamem, a Grassfields Bantu language, in which the relative order of elements in the noun phrase has been shown to be free (Nchare 2011). I will demonstrate, based on truth-value tests and distributional contrasts, that the orders Numeral > Noun vs. Noun > Numeral actually correspond to different interpretations of the corresponding noun phrases. Pre-nominal numerals give rise to indefinite interpretations, while post-nominal numerals are associated with a definite reading of the noun phrase in which they occur.
Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement, 2014
Book of Abstracts Livre des Résumés
Manuscript, New York University, Jan 1, 2007
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Papers by Violeta Vázquez-Rojas