Maria Cristina Cuervo

List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Cristina Cuervo plays a role.

Articles

Cuervo, Maria Cristina and Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux 2015 The sum is more than its parts: Acquisition of clitic clusters in SpanishHispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact, Klassen, Rachel, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela (eds.), pp. 145–168 | Article
We analyze all instances of potential or realized Spanish clitic clusters in the María and Emilio corpora from CHILDES from the ages of 1;09 to 3;00. After a brief stage in which they are completely absent, clusters are produced in target contexts at adult rates. Percentage of realization was the… read more
LaMontagne, Joanne Markle and Maria Cristina Cuervo 2015 Perfecting the pastHispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact, Klassen, Rachel, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela (eds.), pp. 191–210 | Article
Studies on Spanish first language (L1) acquisition have shown that the Present Perfect (PP) appears together with the Present tense, or immediately after, and Peninsular Spanish children use it productively before the Preterit. Though the PP has become the default form of past reference in many… read more
Cuervo, Maria Cristina 2010 Two types of (apparently) ditransitive light verb constructionsRomance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance, Arregi, Karlos, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay (eds.), pp. 139–156 | Article
An analysis of Spanish ditransitive constructions with light verb dar reveals that despite surface similarity these constructions belong to two groups corresponding to distinct argument structures. While expressions like dar permiso/ánimo ‘give permission/encouragement’ correspond to double-object… read more
Cuervo, Maria Cristina 2003 A Control-vs-Raising Theory of Dative ExperiencersRomance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition, Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa and Yves Roberge (eds.), pp. 111–130 | Article
Cuervo, Maria Cristina 2003 Structural asymmetries but same word order: The dative alternation in SpanishAsymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 117–144 | Article