Noun-Based Constructions in the History of Portuguese and Spanish

Patrícia Amaral is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, where she is also affiliated with Linguistics and Cognitive Science. She obtained her PhD from The Ohio State University in 2007 and has held appointments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Liverpool, and Stanford University. Her current research focuses on syntactic and semantic change in Portuguese and Spanish, and she has also published more broadly in the fields of Romance linguistics, semantics, and experimental pragmatics. She is the co-editor of Portuguese/Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, Synchrony, and Contact (Benjamins, 2014).Manuel Delicado Cantero is Senior Lecturer in the Spanish program in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University. His research areas include Spanish and Romance syntax and historical linguistics, with particular focus on the syntactic evolution of (finite) clauses introduced by prepositions, dialect syntax, and clausal nominalization in Spanish and other Romance languages. He has also published on the teaching and learning of L2 Spanish pronunciation in Australia. He is the author of Prepositional Clauses in Spanish: A Diachronic and Comparative Syntactic Study (De Gruyter, 2013).

The author's account of their target phenomenon is free from theoretical biases, which makes this book an even finer contribution to the study of (the diachrony of) complex constructions and their components... I am sure this slim contribution will spark great interest (and, hopefully, fruitful debate) among historical linguists and language theorists, and will also be well received by specialists in Ibero Romance languages.

• Series preface Acknowledgments List of figures and tables List of abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: Syntactic and semantic change in clause-taking nominal constructions 3: Clausal adjunction 4: Connectives 5: Light verb constructions 6: Conclusion References Index