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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., 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
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.
1/01/12 → 30/06/15
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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Microvariació: trets sintàctics i realització morfonològica
Picallo Soler, M. D. C., Mata Vigara, M., Navarro Ibarra, I. L. A., Real Puigdollers, C., Villalba Nicolas, F. X., Alvarez Soriano, P., Bonet Alsina, M. E., Cabre Monne, T., Espinal Farre, M. T., Fasanella Seligrat, A., Gavarro Alguero, A., Gutierrez Gonzalez, Y., Gómez Duran, G., Jeong , Y., Martínez Ferreiro, S., Mascaro Altimiras, J., Ohannesian Saboundjian, M., Rigau Oliver, G., Sola Pujols, J., Torres Tamarit, F. J., Lazaridou Chitzigoga, D., Brucart Marraco, Jose Maria, Jiménez Martínez, J., Markova, A. S., Oltra Massuet, I. & Palmada Félez, B.
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.). 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
Translated title of the contribution :Word order in contrast Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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The Functional Structure of Infinitive Relatives in Romance: Consequences for the cartographic approach
Villalba Nicolas, F. X., 2022, (Accepted in press) In: Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie occidentale. 56, p. 1-28Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review