Publications (1990-present)

In preparation. "Shakespeare’s grammar". In The Cambridge Shakespeare Encyclopedia (General Editor: Bruce R. Smith). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Forthcoming. "COLMOBAENG: A Corpus of Late Modern British and American English Prose". In Creation and use of historical English corpora in Spain, ed. by Nila Vázquez. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Forthcoming. "Preface". In The handbook of historical sociolinguistics, ed. by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy. (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics). Oxford & Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Forthcoming. "El proyecto 'Variación, cambio lingüístico y gramaticalización': objetivos y líneas metodológicas". In Actas del XXXIX Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, ed. by Milagros Fernández Pérez. Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [joint paper with María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, Elena Seoane & Carlos Prado-Alonso].

2011. "The history of English historical linguistics in Southern Europe". In Historical Linguistics of English: An international handbook, ed. by Alexander Bergs & Laurel J. Brinton. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [abstract]

2010. "Paths in the development of elaborative discourse markers: Evidence from Spanish". In Subjectification, intersubjectification, and grammaticalization, ed. by Kristin Davidse, Lieven Vandelanotte & Hubert Cuyckens. (Topics in English Linguistics 66). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 197-237. [abstract]

2010. “Variation in sentential complements in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English: A processing-based explanation”. In Eighteenth-century English: Ideology and change, ed. by Raymond Hickey. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 200-220. [abstract]

2008. Collaborator. Rethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives. (Typological Studies in Language). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins [Editors: María José López-Couso & Elena Seoane].

2008. Collaborator. Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization. (Typological Studies in Language). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins [Editors: Elena Seoane & María José López-Couso].

2007. "Drift and the development of sentential complements in British and American English from 1700 to the present day". In 'Of varying language and opposing creed': New insights into Late Modern English, ed. by Javier Pérez-Guerra, Dolores González-Álvarez, Jorge L. Bueno-Alonso & Esperanza Rama-Martínez. (Linguistic Insights Series 28). Bern, etc.: Peter Lang, 161-235. [pdf file]

2006. "Report on the 38th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Valencia, 7-10 September 2005)". Folia Linguistica 40 3/4: 409-411.

2006. "The role of language standardization in the loss of hybrid gerunds in Modern English". In 'These things write I vnto thee...': Essays in honour of Bjorg Bækken, ed. by Leiv Egil Breivik, Sandra Halverson & Kari Haugland. Oslo: Novus Press, pp. 93-110. [pdf file]

2006. "Causality in language change”. In Marta Carretero et al. eds. A pleasure of life in words. A Festschrift for Angela Downing. Madrid: Universidad Complutense, 137-154.

2006. Review of Bettelou Los, The rise of the to-infinitive (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Journal of Linguistics 42/1: 211-216. [pdf file]

2005. "'Fare thee well, dame'. Shakespeare's forms of address and their socio-affective role". In SEDERI Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, Vol. 15 (2005): 23-42, ed. by Jorge Figueroa, Clara Calvo & Javier Pérez-Guerra. [pdf file]

2004. "Is Cognitive Grammar a usage-based model? Towards a realistic account of English sentential complements", Miscelánea. A Journal of English and American Studies 29: 23-58. Special Issue on Language and Linguistics containing the plenary lectures from ESSE7 (Seventh International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English), University of Zaragoza, 8-12 September 2004. [pdf file]

2004. "Some strategies for coding sentential subjects in English: from exaptation to grammaticalization”. Studies in Language 28/2: 321-361. [pdf file]

2004. "On reanalysis and actualization in syntactic change: the rise and development of English verbal gerunds". Diachronica 21/1: 5-55. [pdf file]

2003. [et alii]: Chapter on "English Language". In The Year's Work in English Studies Vol. 82 (2001). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-114.

2002. Editor [with María José López-Couso & Javier Pérez-Guerra]: English historical syntax and morphology. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 223).  Amsterdam &  Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Reviewed in English Language and Linguistics 8/2 (2004): 355-360 by Helena Raumolin-Brunberg; Language 80/1 (2004): 172-173 by Alexander Bergs; Studies in Language 29/1 (2005): 207-220 by Pius ten Hacken; The Linguist List February 6 2003 (Issue 14.380) by Miguel Ayerbe; The Year's Work in English Studies 83 (2002): 7ff.

2002. "Introduction". In English historical syntax and morphology, ed. by Teresa Fanego et al., pp.1-8.

2002. Editor [with Belén Méndez-Naya & Elena Seoane]: Sounds, words, texts and change. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 224).  Amsterdam &  Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Reviewed in English Language and Linguistics 8/2 (2004): 355-360 by Helena Raumolin-Brunberg; Language 80/1 (2004): 173-174 by Alexander Bergs; The Linguist List  January 27 2004 (Issue 15.300) by Anthony Grant; The Year's Work in English Studies 83 (2002): 7ff.

2002. "Introduction". In Sounds, words, texts and change, ed. by Teresa Fanego et al., pp. 1-9.

2002. [et alii]: Chapter on "English Language". In The Year's Work in English Studies Vol. 81 (2000).  Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-116.

2001. [et alii]: Chapter on "English Language". In The Year's Work in English Studies Vol. 80 (1999).  Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-123.

2001. [et alii]: Chapter on "English Language". In The Year's Work in English Studies Vol. 79 (1998).  Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-130.

1998. "Developments in argument linking in early Modern English gerund phrases". English Language and Linguistics 2: 87-119.

1997. "On patterns of complementation with verbs of effort". English Studies 78: 60-67.

1997. "English in transition 1500-1700: On variation in second person singular pronoun usage". In SEDERI VII (Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the Spanish Society for English Renaissance Studies, La Coruña, 25-27 March 1996), ed. by S. G. Fernández-Corugedo.  La Coruña: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La Coruña, 5-15.

1997. Review of N.F. Blake, A history of the English language (London & Basingstoke: MacMillan 1996). European Journal of English Studies 1: 245-247.

1996. "The development of gerunds as objects of subject-control verbs in English (1400-1760)". Diachronica 13: 29-62.

1996. "On the historical development of English retrospective verbs". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 97: 71-79.

1996. "English remember and Role and Reference grammar: On Van Valin & Wilkins (1993)". Lingua 99: 1-10.

1996. "The gerund in Early Modern English: Evidence from the Helsinki Corpus". Folia Linguistica Historica 17: 97-152.

1994. "Infinitive marking in Early Modern English". In Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22-25 September 1992, ed. by Francisco Fernández et al. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 191-203.

1994. "English historical syntax: approaches and problems". In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference of the Spanish Society for English Language and Literature (AEDEAN), Valladolid, 14-16 de diciembre de 1992, ed. by José M. Ruiz, Pilar Abad & José M. Barrio.  Universidad de Valladolid: Servicio de Publicaciones, 13-28.

1993. Edition and Preface: Papers from the 4th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, Santiago 24-27 September 1991.  Universidad de Santiago: Servicio de Publicaciones. Pp. 336. ISBN 84-7191-987-7.

1992. Infinitive complements in Shakespeare’s English. Synchronic and diachronic aspects.  Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.  ISBN 84-7191-894-3. Reviewed: The Year's Work in English Studies 73 (1992): 60-61.

1991. "On the origin and history of the English syntactic type (and) none but he to marry with Nan Page". English Studies 72: 513-519.

1990. "Finite complement clauses in Shakespeare's English, Part I". Studia Neophilologica 62/1: 3-21.

1990. "Finite complement clauses in Shakespeare's English, Part 2". Studia Neophilologica 62/2: 129-149.