Matías Verdecchia

Matías Verdecchia

Linguist - Postdoctoral researcher at IIF-CONICET

About

I’m a postdoctoral researcher in Linguistics at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (CONICET), under the supervision of Andrés Saab. I also work as a teaching assistant at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

I’m part of TALK group, a research team focused on the problem of language meaning from a linguistic and philosophical perspective.

I work primarily on Spanish syntax and semantics. My research interests include island effects, doubling patterns, information structure, and presuppositions, among others.

Dissertation

(2023). Islas fantasma y fallas presuposicionales. PhD dissertation. Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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Publications

(2023). Clausal doubling and verum marking in Spanish. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 42(3): 525-548.

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(2023). La construcción de doblado clausal (o sobre qué significa repetir una oración). Lingüística 39(2): 75-88.

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(2022). A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects. RLLT18, eds. Jonathan MacDonald, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Ander Beristain & Robin Turner. Special Issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 8(4)/7, 1-19.

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(2022). Object drop in Spanish is not island-sensitive. Journal of Linguistics 58(4), 901-906.

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(2022). Factive islands and questions about propositions. Natural Language Semantics 30(1), 101-113.

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(2022). Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 40(4), 1159–1200.

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(2022). La estructura informativa del doblado de predicados. Lexis 46(2), 523–550.

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(2022). Anáforas reflexivas y doblado de clíticos en lenguas romances. Revue Romane 57(2), 288-310.

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(2021). Impossible Presuppositions. On factivity, focus, and triviality. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1), 1-29.

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(2021). Focused verbal inflections in Spanish. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 7(5), 1-4.

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(2021). Nombres escuetos en contextos no verídicos. Verba. Anuario Galego de Filoloxía 48, 1-29.

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Talks (selected)

(2022). Doubling phenomena in Spanish: repeating propositions vs repeating predicates. Going Romance 2022. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

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(2022). Information-based “island effects” in Spanish clausal doubling. GLOW 45. Queen Mary University of London.

Slides

(2021). Prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from infinitival clauses. Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 51). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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(2021). Sobre el doblado de predicados en español. FiLing Sur 2021. Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas.

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(2020). Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic copying. Comparative Syntax Meetings. Leiden University Center for Linguistics.

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(2020). Nombres desnudos en contextos no verídicos. I Encuentro de la Red de Lingüistas en Formación.

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(2019). Predicate doubling asymmetries with factive clauses. III Colóquio de Semântica Referencial. Universidade Federal de São Carlos.

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