Current Projects

Work in Progress, Spring 2006

Verbal Analogy
Abstract for XXXIII RLS, Cambridge
Presented LSRL XXXIV, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2004
XXXIII RLS, Cambridge (UK), January 2005
Ms. draft (not for quotation)

Non finite clitics
Abstract for LSA 2006 Annual Meeting
Presented LSA, Albuquerque, NM, January 2006
SPAN 830 Colloquium on Hispanic Linguistics, May 2006

Clitics from Medieval to Modern Spanish
A Diachronic Investigation of Divergent Forces and Convergent Analogies
A monographic study
Project Description

The Use of Data Bases in Diachronic Research
Issues in the use and architecture of data bases to support diachronic research in morphology and morphosyntax. Dealing with three different Spanish corpora (CORDE, CdE, DB). Issues with labeling (automatic and manual). Reliability and inter-subjectivity of specific analyses. Classes of underlying textual foundations (critical editions, single ms reproductions, etc.)

This is an open-ended project deriving from the practical work with such data bases and the experiences and insights gained in this way. The eventual product will be a research article. Some ideas have already been developed in my 2005 article (The corpus as a key to diachronic explanation. Romanistische Korpuslinguistik II/Romance Corpus Linguistics II, ed. Claus D. Pusch, Johannes Kabatek and Wolfgang Raible, 31-44. TÃ¼bingen: Narr; ScriptOralia).