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Queens' College 澳门六合彩开奖记录 CB3 9ET
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Dr Ioanna Sitaridou is Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 where she also served as Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese from 2019-2021; Co-Director for the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Centre for Greek Studies; Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Linguistics and Modern and Medieval Languages at Queens鈥 College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录; and Co-Editor-in-Chief for the linguistics journal .
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Prior to her 澳门六合彩开奖记录 appointment in 2004 Prof. Ioanna Sitaridou worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Centre on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg, investigating word order in Old Romance and the licensing/loss of null subjects in the history of French and Occitan (2002-2005), with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. J眉rgen Meisel.
She received her PhD in Romance linguistics at the University of Manchester (2002) under the supervision of Prof. Nigel Vincent. She holds an MA in Linguistics from University College London (UCL) (1998). She also holds a BA in French Philology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1997), part of which was spent under the Erasmus scheme at the University of Lisbon (1997) studying Portuguese and Romance linguistics with Prof. Ana Maria Martins.
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Her main areas of research are comparative and diachronic syntax of the Romance languages, in particular 13th Century Spanish, as well as dialectal Spanish, and dialectal Greek, especially Pontic Greek. The areas in which she carries out research are the relationship between syntactic change and acquisition, language contact and sociolinguistics, micro-variation and change, heritage languages and change, and phylogenies. She has published many papers in听Glossa, Lingua, Diachronica, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, among others. She is known to take 鈥榦rthodoxies鈥 and turn them upside-down thanks to meticulous consideration of data coupled with cutting-edge linguistic theory. She is one of the key advocates for a holistic approach to language contact incorporating findings from syntactic theory, variation, language acquisition and sociolinguistics and she has proposed that there is no need for a specialised theory of language contact. She has been awarded numerous fellowships at Princeton, Oslo, Harvard, UFB in Salvador, Brazil and CNRS-Inalco Paris. She has lectured all over the world delivering over 250 talks and lectures.
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She has extensive experience field-working and researching endangered and low prestige languages in socio-politically sensitive contexts such as Romani-speaking communities in Dendropotamos, Thessaloniki; Vlach-speaking communities in Trikala; Spanish in La Palma, Canary Islands with the team; and Llanito in Gibraltar. Undoubtedly, most of this experience has been gained out of 16 years of field working in Turkey where she took Romeyka out of oblivion (e.g., the Today programme in BBC Radio 4, The Independent, Der Spiegel, Sabah, etc.) and turned into a topic of global discussion by publishing papers in international peer-reviewed journals, while putting forward a new phylogeny of Greek positing the existence of more than one Greek language. She used this research and the resulting publicity to educate on bilingualism, promote linguistic self-esteem, especially for female speakers in remote/underprivileged areas, with the aim to promote heritage languages and cultures as a way of maintaining social cohesion in direct counterpoint to the ideology underpinning nationalism.
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Synchrony and Diachrony of Spanish and Romance languages and Asia Minor Greek;
Historical syntax; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Variation;
Heritage languages; Fieldwork and Revitalisation of endangered languages.
Dialectal and diachronic syntax: word order phenomena, null subjects, complementation, infinitives, null objects, subjunctive obviation, control
Micro-variation
Acquisition (especially L2 and heritage languages) and language change
Language Contact
Syntactic phylogenies and reconstruction
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Forthcoming
- Kav膷i膷, J. & I. Sitaridou (2025). Koine Greek. In Walter Bisang, Johannes Kabatek and Bernd Kortmann (Eds.), Spread of World Languages. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
- Michelioudakis, D. & I. Sitaridou (2025). Greek Dialectal Syntax. In听George Tsoulas听and Anthi Revithiadou, Oxford Handbook of Greek Linguistics. Oxford: OUP.
- Sitaridou, I. (2025). Hyperbaton in Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics, Georgios K. Giannakis (Ed.), Leiden/Boston: Brill.
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Journals (referred)
- Neocleous, N. & I. Sitaridou (2022). Never Just Contact. The rise of final auxiliaries in Asia Minor Greek. Diachronica 16.1. 369-408.
- Giannakou, Aretousa & Sitaridou, Ioanna. (2022). (In)felicitous use of subjects in Greek and Spanish in monolingual and contact settings. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1), 1-33. DOI: 听
- Txuss Martin, Ioanna Sitaridou & Wolfram Hinzen (2021). Correlations between Case and the D-system and the interpretability of Case. Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2021, 10 / 2. pp. 238-263.
- Batllori, M. & I. Sitaridou. (2020). Fronting in Old Spanish. Glossa. 1-39.
- Giannakou, A. & I. Sitaridou (2020). Microparametric variation in the syntax of Spanish and Greek pronominal subjects. Glossa. 1-42.
- Schreiber L. & I. Sitaridou (2017). Assessing the sociolinguistic vitality of Romeyka: An attitudinal study. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 1-17.听
- Michelioudakis, D. & I. Sitaridou. (2016). 鈥楻ecasting the multiple-wh typology: Evidence from Pontic Greek varieties鈥. Glossa. 1-33.
- Guardiano, C., Michelioudakis, D., Ceolin, A., Irimia, M. A., Longobardi, G., Radkevich, N., Silvestri, G. & Sitaridou, I. (2016). South by Southeast. A syntactic approach to Greek and Romance microvariation. L鈥橧talia dialettale. 1-63.听
- Michelioudakis, D. & Sitaridou, I. (2016). Recasting the typology of multiple wh-fronting: Evidence from Pontic Greek. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 1(1), 40. 1-33.
- Sitaridou, I. (2016). Reframing the phylogeny of Asia Minor Greek: The view from Pontic Greek. CHS Research Bulletin, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University 4, 1. 1-17.听
- Sitaridou, I., Whimpanny, H. & Ayres, L. (2015). Variation and Optionality in Clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish. Isogloss 1, 1. 247-291.听
- Alboiu, G., Hill, V. & Sitaridou, I. (2015). Discourse Driven V-to-C in Early Modern Romanian. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33, 4. 1057-1088.听听
- Sitaridou, I. (2014). Modality, antiveridicality, and complementation: The Romeyka infinitive as a negative polarity item. Lingua. 118-146.听
- Sitaridou, I. & Kaltsa, M. (2014). Contrastivity in Pontic Greek. Lingua. 1-27.听
- Sitaridou, I. (2014). The Romeyka Infinitive: Continuity, Contact and Change in the Hellenic varieties of Pontus. Diachronica 31, 1. 23-73.听
- Jaspal, R. & Sitaridou, I. (2013). Coping with Stigmatized Linguistic Identities: Identity and Ethnolinguistic Vitality Among Andalusians. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research 13(2). 95-119.
- Sitaridou, I. (2012). A comparative study of word order in Old Romance. Folia Linguistica 46(2), 鈥楾he pace of Grammaticalisation in Romance鈥 (guest eds. Anne Carlier, B茅atrice Lamiroy & Walter De Mulder). 553-604.听
- Sitaridou, I. (2011). Word order and information structure in Old Spanish. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, Special issue on 鈥榃ord Order and Information Structure鈥 (eds. Montserrat Battlori &Maria Llu茂sa Hernanz). 159-184.听
- Sitaridou, I. (2009). On the emergence of personal infinitives in the history of Spanish. Diachronica 26, 1. 36-64.听
- Sitaridou, I. (2007). Infinitives with subjects in Greek and Southern Italian dialects: a Sprachbund effect. In D. Bentley & A. Ledgeway (eds.), Sui dialetti italoromanzi. Saggi in onore di Nigel B. Vincent, The Italianist, Special Supplement. London: Maney. 221-242.听
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Books
- Bouzouita, M., I. Sitaridou & E. Pato. (Eds.) (2018). Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morphosyntax. Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics series (IHLL). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Lavidas, Nikolaos, Bergs, Alexander, van Gelderen, Elly and Sitaridou, Ioanna (Eds). (2022). The Naxos Papers. Vol. II: On Language Change in Indo-European. Newcastle upon Tyne: 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Scholars Publishing, 250pp.
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Chapters in edited volumes (referred)
- Sitaridou, I. (2024). Romeyka. 鈥楾眉rkiye'nin tehlike alt谋ndaki dilleri鈥 i莽inde, Metin Ba臒r谋a莽谋k, 脰mer Demirok ve Balk谋z 脰zt眉rk (Ed.),听陌stanbul: Laz Enstit眉s眉. ISBN: 978-605-70129-7-5
- Sitaridou, I. (2024). Romeyka. In 鈥楨ndangered Languages in Turkey鈥, edited by Metin Bagriacik, Omer Demirok and Balkiz Ozturk. Istanbul: The Laz Institute. 118-146 ISBN: 978-605-70129-6-8
- Sitaridou, I. (2023). 鈥楶etnajst let terenskih raziskav romej拧膷ine: klju膷ne ugotovitve o jeziku ter o njegovem razvoju, vitalnosti in mo啪nostih pre啪ivetja' Keria鈥, Studia Latina et Graeca 25, 2.
- Sitaridou, I. and Tristan L. (2023). 鈥楥litic climbing in modal constructions in Algherese Catalan鈥, Linguistica sine finibus, Gibert-Sotelo, Elisabeth; Pujol Payet, Isabel; Rost Bagudanch, Assumpci贸; y Tro Morat贸, Teresa de Jes煤s (eds.). Girona: Documenta Universitaria.
- Bouzouita, M. and I. Sitaridou (2023). 鈥楥ambios en el orden de palabras y la estructura informativa鈥, Ling眉铆stica hist贸rica del espa帽ol / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Historical Linguistics, Steven Dworkin, Gloria Claver铆a y 脕lvaro听Octavio听de Toledo (Eds.). Oxon: Routledge. 221-232
- Sitaridou, I. (2022). 鈥極n the redundancy of a theory of language contact: Cue-based reconstruction in a socio-linguistically informed manner鈥. In N. Lavidas and K. Nikiforidou, Language change: Theory and Methodologies in the 21st century. Leiden: Brill. 15-52
- Sitaridou, I. (2022). 鈥楲a subida de los cl铆ticos en rioplatense: mecanismos universales, variaci贸n y opcionalidad鈥 en Universales vern谩culos en la gram谩tica del espa帽ol, 脕ngela Di Tullio, Enrique Pato (eds.). Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert. 1-35
- Sitaridou, I. (2021). 鈥(In)Vulnerable inflected infinitives as complements to volitionals and modals: Evidence from Galician and Romeyka鈥. In T. Eyth贸rsson & J. G. J贸nsson (Eds.), Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change. Oxford: OUP. 161-177
- Donnabedian, A. & I. Sitaridou (2020). 鈥楲anguage contact in Anatolia鈥. In E. Adamou and Y. Matras (Eds.), Handbook of Language Contact . London: Routledge. 404-434
- Michelioudakis, D. & I. Sitaridou (2020) 鈥楾owards a formal model of transfer under contact: Contrasting Asia Minor Greek to mainland Greek and Turkish in search of syntactic borrowings鈥 in M. Georgiafentis, G. Giannoulopoulou, M. Koliopoulou & A. Tsokoglou (Eds.), Theoretical Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics. Morphological and Syntactic Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. 246-261
- Abbott, J. & I. Sitaridou (2019). 'How contact with Greek exacerbated the rise of the definite article in Bulgarian'. In J. J. Pennington, V.A. Friedman, and L. A. Grenoble, (Eds.), And Thus You Are Everywhere Honored: Studies Dedicated To Brian D. Joseph. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers. 7-20
- Sitaridou, I.听 (2019). 鈥楢gainst V2 in Old Spanish鈥. In A. Breitbarth, M. Bouzouita, M. Farasyn, L. Danckaert (Eds.), The Determinants of Diachronic Stability. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 131-156
- Guardiano, C., D. Michelioudakis, G. Cordoni, M.A. Irimia, N. Radkevich, I. Sitaridou (2018). 鈥楶arametric comparison and dialect variation. Insights from Southern Italy鈥. In L. Repetti & F. Ord贸帽ez (Eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14. Selected papers from the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 103-133
- Bouzouita, M., I. Sitaridou & E. Pato (2018). 鈥楽ome Introductory Reflections鈥. In M. Bouzouita, I. Sitaridou & E. Pato (Eds.), Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morpho-Syntax [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics] 听听Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-12
- Sitaridou, I. (2017). 鈥楥hapter II.2: Object arguments鈥. In A. Dufter & E. Stark, Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax. Series: Manuals of Romance Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 89-153
- Sitaridou, I. (2015). 鈥楲a anteposici贸n de participio en espa帽ol antiguo debida a la estructura de la informaci贸n del discurso鈥. In M. L贸pez Izquierdo & M. Castillo Lluch (Eds.), El orden de palabras en espa帽ol medieval. Madrid: Visor. 111-140
- Eide, K. & Sitaridou, I. (2014). 鈥楥ontrastivity and information structure in the Old Ibero-Romance languages鈥. In K. Bech & K. Gunn Eide (Eds.), Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 377-412
- Sitaridou, I. (2013). 鈥楪reek-speaking enclaves in Pontus today: The documentation and revitalization of Romeyka鈥. In M. Jones & S. Ogilvie (Eds.), Keeping Languages Alive. Language Endangerment: Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalization. 澳门六合彩开奖记录: CUP. 98-112
- Michelioudakis, D. & Sitaridou, I. (2012). 鈥楽yntactic microvariation: Dative Constructions in Greek鈥. In R. Etxepare & B. Fern谩ndez (Eds.), Datives in variation: a micro-comparative perspective. Oxford: OUP. 212-255
- Sitaridou, I. (2007). 鈥楻omance infinitives with subjects, subjunctive obviation and control theory鈥. In L. Eguren & O. Soriano (Eds.), Coreference, Modality and Focus. Studies on the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 191-219
- Sitaridou, I. (2006). 鈥楾he (dis)association of Tense, phi-features EPP and nominative Case: case studies from Romance and Greek鈥. In J. Costa & M. C. Figueiredo Silva (Eds.), Studies on Agreement. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 243-260
- Mathieu, E. & Sitaridou, I. (2005). 鈥楽plit wh-Constructions in Classical and Modern Greek: A Diachronic Perspective鈥. In M. Batllori, M.-L. Hernanz, C. Picallo & F. Roca (Eds.), Grammaticalization and Parametric Change. Oxford: OUP. 236-250
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Working papers (refereed)
- Michelioudakis, D. & Sitaridou, I. (2013). 鈥楳ultiple听wh-fronting across Pontic Greek dialects.鈥 In A. Ralli, B. Joseph, M. Janse, A. Karasimos (Eds.),听On-line Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT5), Ghent, 20-22 September 2012.听
- Kaltsa, M. & Sitaridou, I. (2010). 鈥楾opicalisation in Pontic Greek鈥. In A. Ralli, B. Joseph, M. Janse, A. Karasimos (Eds.),听On-line Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory听(MGDLT4), Chios, 11-14 June 2009 (pp. 262-279).听
- Michelioudakis, D. & Sitaridou, I. (2010). 鈥楽yntactic microvariation in Pontic Greek: Dative constructions.鈥 In A. Ralli, B. Joseph, M. Janse & A. Karasimos (Eds.),听On-line Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory听(MGDLT4), Chios, 11-14 June 2009 (pp. 131-146).听
- Haidou, K. & Sitaridou, I. (2002). 鈥楾he Licensing of Subjects in Greek Gerunds鈥.听SOAS Working Papers听(pp. 189-197).听
- Mathieu, E. & Sitaridou, I. (2002). 鈥楽plit听wh-constructions in Classical and Modern Greek鈥. In A. Alexiadou, S. Fischer, M. Stavrou (Eds.),听Linguistics in Potsdam 19听(pp. 143-182).听
Proceedings (refereed)
- Michelioudakis, D. & I. Sitaridou. (2013). 鈥楳ultiple wh-fronting across Pontic Greek dialects.鈥櫶齇n-line Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT5), Chios, 11-14/06/2009, (eds.) A. Ralli, B. Joseph, M. Janse & A. Karasimos.
- Kaltsa, M. & I. Sitaridou (2010). 鈥楾opicalisation in Pontic Greek鈥.听On-line Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT4), Chios, 11-14/06/2009, (eds.) A. Ralli, B. Joseph, M. Janse & A. Karasimos. 262-279.听
- Michelioudakis, D. & I. Sitaridou (2010). 鈥楽yntactic microvariation in Pontic Greek: Dative constructions.鈥櫶齇n-line Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT4), Chios, 11-14/06/2009, (eds.) A. Ralli, B. Joseph, M. Janse & A. Karasimos. 131-146.听
- Sitaridou, I. & Terkourafi, M. (2009). 鈥極n the Loss of the Masculine Genitive Plural in Cypriot Greek: language contact or internal evolution?鈥. In M. Dufresne, F. Dupuis & E. Vocaj (Eds.),听Historical Linguistics 2007. Selected Papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,听Montr茅al, Qu茅bec, 6-11 August 2007 (pp. 161-173). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.听
- Michelioudakis, D. & Sitaridou, I. (2009). 鈥楾he ethic dative in Greek and Romance鈥.听Studies in Greek Linguistics 29. Thessaloniki: Institute for Modern Greek Studies, Aristole University of Thessaloniki听(pp.听355-370).听螠蔚位苇蟿蔚蟼 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 螘位位畏谓喂魏萎 纬位蠋蟽蟽伪. 螤蟻伪魏蟿喂魏维 蟿畏蟼 29畏蟼 蔚蟿萎蟽喂伪蟼 蟽蠀谓维谓蟿畏蟽畏蟼 蟿慰蠀 蟿慰渭苇伪 螕位蠅蟽蟽慰位慰纬委伪蟼, 蟿慰蠀听听 蟿渭萎渭伪蟿慰蟼听听 桅喂位慰位慰纬委伪蟼,听听 蟿畏蟼听听 桅喂位慰蟽慰蠁喂魏萎蟼听听 危蠂慰位萎蟼听听 蟿慰蠀听听 螒蟻喂蟽蟿慰蟿蔚位蔚委慰蠀 螤伪谓蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭委慰蠀 螛蔚蟽蟽伪位慰谓委魏畏蟼听(pp. 355-370).听听听
- Sifaki, E. & Sitaridou, I. (2007). 鈥楨PP Revisited: Evidence from Null Subject Languages鈥. In E. Agathopoulou, M. Dimitrakopoulou & D. Papadopoulou (Eds.),听Selected Papers in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Volume 1, 17 International Symposium, English Department, Aristotle University (pp. 188-198). Thessaloniki: Monochromia.听
- Sitaridou, I. (2004). 鈥楢 corpus-based study of null subjects in Old French and Occitan鈥. In C. D. Pusch, J. Kabatek, W.听 Raible.听 (Eds.),听Romance Corpus Linguistics II.听 Corpora and Diachronic Linguistics听(pp. 359-374). T眉bingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.听听
- 危喂蟿伪蟻委未慰蠀, 螜. & 围维蠆未慰蠀, 螝. (2001). 鈥樜 伪蟻蠂萎 谓慰渭喂渭慰蟺慰委畏蟽畏蟼 蟿蠅谓 蠀蟺慰魏蔚喂渭苇谓蠅谓 蟽蟿伪 蔚位位畏谓喂魏维 纬蔚蟻慰蠉谓未喂伪鈥,听螠蔚位苇蟿蔚蟼 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 螘位位畏谓喂魏萎 纬位蠋蟽蟽伪. 螤蟻伪魏蟿喂魏维 蟿畏蟼 22畏蟼 蔚蟿萎蟽喂伪蟼 蟽蠀谓维谓蟿畏蟽畏蟼 蟿慰蠀 蟿慰渭苇伪 螕位蠅蟽蟽慰位慰纬委伪蟼, 蟿慰蠀 蟿渭萎渭伪蟿慰蟼 桅喂位慰位慰纬委伪蟼, 蟿畏蟼 桅喂位慰蟽慰蠁喂魏萎蟼 危蠂慰位萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 螒蟻喂蟽蟿慰蟿蔚位蔚委慰蠀 螤伪谓蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭委慰蠀 螛蔚蟽蟽伪位慰谓委魏畏蟼听(pp. 583-592).听
- Sitaridou, I. (2001). 鈥業nflected and Personal infinitives in Romance languages from a diachronic perspective鈥.听Proceedings of the 6th Doctorate Meeting in Linguistics at the University Paris 7听(pp. 143-149).听
- Sitaridou, I. (2001). 鈥楾he History of Inflected and Personal infinitives in Romance languages.鈥櫶齈roceedings of the Tenth Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, University of Manchester.
- Sitaridou, I. (2000). 鈥楴on-finiteness in Old Neapolitan and Modern Greek鈥.听螠蔚位苇蟿蔚蟼 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 螘位位畏谓喂魏萎 纬位蠋蟽蟽伪. 螤蟻伪魏蟿喂魏维 蟿畏蟼 21畏蟼 蔚蟿萎蟽喂伪蟼 蟽蠀谓维谓蟿畏蟽畏蟼 蟿慰蠀 蟿慰渭苇伪 螕位蠅蟽蟽慰位慰纬委伪蟼, 蟿慰蠀 蟿渭萎渭伪蟿慰蟼 桅喂位慰位慰纬委伪蟼, 蟿畏蟼 桅喂位慰蟽慰蠁喂魏萎蟼 危蠂慰位萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 螒蟻喂蟽蟿慰蟿蔚位蔚委慰蠀 螤伪谓蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭委慰蠀 螛蔚蟽蟽伪位慰谓委魏畏蟼听(pp. 700-712).听
- Sitaridou, I. (2000). 鈥楲exical subjects in Portuguese and Spanish infinitival clauses.鈥櫶齈roceedings of the Ninth Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, University of Manchester (pp. 123-195).
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