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Personal profile
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 1997Becari de l'I.E.C., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
1 Jan 1997 → 1 Jan 1998Becari F.P.I., Universitat de Barcelona
1 Jan 1993 → 1 Jan 1996Fingerprint
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La interpretación de las categorías funcionales
Espinal Farre, M. T., Villalba Nicolas, F. X., Brunetti, L., Cyrino, S., Etxeberria Otaegui, U., Borik , O., Planas-Morales, S. & Tubau Muntaña, S.
1/01/18 → 31/12/20
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La composicionalidad del significado. Perspectivas teóricas y empíricas
Espinal Farre, M. T., Borik , O., Brunetti, L., Cyrino, S., Etxeberria Otaegi, U., Li, F., Planas-Morales, S., Seres, G., Silvagni, F., Tubau Muntaña, S. & Villalba Nicolas, F. X.
1/01/15 → 30/06/18
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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., Dobrovie Sorin, C. D. S., Etxeberria Otaegi, U. E. O., Fortuny Andreu, J., Mateu Fontanals, J., Mayl Toll, L. M. T., Tubau Muntaña, S. & Villalba Nicolas, F. X.
1/01/12 → 30/06/15
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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., Lorusso, P., Padrosa Trias, S., Rubio Alcalá, C., Wojciech Lewandowski, Bartra Kaufmann, A., Borik , O., Castillo Herrerías, V., Hernanz Carbo, L., Macdonald , J., Martí Girbau, M. N., Mateu Fontanals, J., Picallo Soler, Mº del Carmen, Sánchez González, E., Sanchez Lancis, C. & Villalba Nicolas, F. X.
1/10/06 → 30/09/11
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Microvariació: trets sintàctics i realització morfonològica
Picallo Soler, M. D. C., Lazaridou Chitzigoga, D., Mata Vigara, M., Navarro Ibarra, I. L. A., Real Puigdollers, C., Villalba Nicolas, F. X., Alvarez Soriano, P., Bonet Alsina, M. E., Brucart Marraco, Jose Maria, Cabre Monne, T., Espinal Farre, M. T., Fasanella Seligrat, A., Gavarro Alguero, A., Gómez Duran, G., Gutierrez Gonzalez, Y., Jeong , Y., Jiménez Martínez, J., Markova, A. S., Martínez Ferreiro, S., Mascaro Altimiras, J., Ohannesian Saboundjian, M., Oltra Massuet, I., Palmada Félez, B., Rigau Oliver, G., Sola Pujols, J. & Torres Tamarit, F. J.
1/10/06 → 30/09/11
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Research output
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5.4 Modality and Information Structure: Focus, Dislocation, Interrogative and Exclamatory Sentences
Feldhausen, I. & Villalba Nicolas, F. X., 8 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
Villalba Nicolas, F. X., 1 Jan 2019, 1 ed. Madrid (ES). 92 p. (El español en contraste)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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Bridging Strength, Monotonicity, and Word Order Choices in Catalan
Brunetti, L., Mayol, L. & Villalba, X., 13 Sep 2020, In: Discourse Processes. 57, 8, p. 703-724 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review