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Research interests
My research career focuses on Catalan and Spanish grammar, specifically their syntax and connections with semantics, pragmatics and prosody. In this area, my first main line of research has been dislocations, an understudied construction and yet of great theoretical interest. Apart from my 2000 thesis, my research on this construction has been published elsewhere, spreading from the syntactic representation of dislocates (2009) to prosodic (2013d) and information aspects (2013a; 2015a; 2018b), as well as the microparametric differences between Catalan and Spanish (2007, 2011a,c; 2015b). My most recent work in this area has being concerned with the expression of information structure in non-standard sentences, such as Romance binominal constructions (2008, 2010b), interrogatives (2018c), infinitival relatives (2019b), and existential sentences (2013c; 2016b; 2018a).
Education/Academic qualification
Ph. D., Filología Catalana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Award Date: 9 Jun 2000
External positions
A2.3, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
1 Jan 1997 → 31 Dec 1997
Becari de l'I.E.C., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
1 Jan 1997 → 1 Jan 1998
Becari F.P.I., Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
1 Jan 1993 → 1 Jan 1996
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LA INTERPRETACION DE LAS CATEGORIAS FUNCIONALES II: SIGNIFICADOS EXPRESIVOS Y JERARQUIAS DE SIGNIFICADO
Espinal Farre, M. T., Villalba Nicolas, F. X., Borik , O., Morosi ., P., Puig Mayenco, E., Seres Guillen, D., Tsiakmakis , E., Tubau Muntaña, S., CARRERA PEREZ, E., Cyrino, S., Etxeberria, U., GIANOLLO, C., PAOLO GRECO, M., Planas-Morales, S. & TROTZKE, A.
1/09/21 → 31/08/24
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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La interpretación de las categorías funcionales
Espinal Farre, M. T., Villalba Nicolas, F. X., Tubau Muntaña, S., Brunetti, L., Cyrino, S., Etxeberria Otaegui, U., Olga Borik & Planas-Morales, S.
1/01/18 → 30/09/21
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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La composicionalidad del significado. Perspectivas teóricas y empíricas
Espinal Farre, M. T., Borik , O., Tubau Muntaña, S., Villalba Nicolas, F. X., Brunetti, L., Cyrino, S., Etxeberria Otaegi, U., Li, F., Planas-Morales, S., Seres, G. & Silvagni, F.
1/01/15 → 30/06/18
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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La composicionalidad del significado y las operaciones semánticas en la interfaz sintaxis-semántica y en la interfaz gramática-cognición
Espinal Farre, M. T., Bellavia , A., Bogatyreva , L., Ciutescu , E., Borik , O., Fortuny Andreu, J., Mateu Fontanals, J., Tubau Muntaña, S., Villalba Nicolas, F. X., Dobrovie Sorin, C. D. S., Etxeberria Otaegi, U. E. O., Mayl Toll, L. M. T., Silvagni , F. & Silvagni , F.
1/01/12 → 30/06/15
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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Microvariació a l'estructura oracional
Brucart Marraco, J. M., Castro Zapata, I. M., Gallardo Esteban, E., Gallego Bartolomé, Á. J., García Romero, S., Padrosa Trias, S., Rubio Alcalá, C., Bartra Kaufmann, A., Borik , O., Castillo Herrerías, V., Hernanz Carbo, L., Macdonald , J., Martí Girbau, M. N., Mateu Fontanals, J., Picallo Soler, M. D. C., Sanchez Lancis, C., Sánchez González, E., Villalba Nicolas, F. X., Lorusso, P. & Wojciech Lewandowski
1/10/06 → 30/09/11
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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5.4 Modality and Information Structure: Focus, Dislocation, Interrogative and Exclamatory Sentences
Feldhausen, I. & Villalba Nicolas, F. X., 6 Apr 2020, Manual of Catalan Linguistics. Lútke, J. & Argenter, J-A. (eds.). de Gruyter, p. 247-270 24 p. (Manual of Catalan Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Interface-driven phenomena in spanish: Essays in honor of javier gutiérrez-rexach
Villalba, X., 28 Feb 2020, Interface-Driven Phenomena in Spanish: Essays in Honor of Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. Sandro Sessarego & Melvin Gonzálex Rivera (eds.). 1 ed. London and New York, p. 131-144 226 p. (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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El orden de palabras en contraste
Villalba Nicolas, F. X., 1 Jan 2019, 1 ed. Madrid (ES): Arco Libros. 92 p. (El español en contraste)Translated title of the contribution :Word order in contrast Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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Exclamatives: An overview
Villalba Nicolas, F. X., 2023, (Accepted in press) Interrogatives, exclamatives and imperatives in Brazilian Portuguese. Medeiros Junior, P., Guesser, S. & Marchesan, A. (eds.). BerlinResearch output: Chapter in Book › Chapter › Research › peer-review