Matías Verdecchia
Linguist - PhD candidate at IIF-CONICET
About
I’m a PhD candidate at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (CONICET). I’m currently working on my dissertation, under the supervision of Andrés Saab and Carlos Muñoz Pérez. I also work as teaching assistant at Ciclo Básico Común (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.
Publications
(2023).
Clausal doubling and verum marking in Spanish.
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 42(3): 525-548.
(2023).
La construcción de doblado clausal (o sobre qué significa repetir una oración).
Lingüística 39(2): 75-88.
(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.
(2022).
Object drop in Spanish is not island-sensitive.
Journal of Linguistics 58(4), 901-906.
(2022).
Factive islands and questions about propositions.
Natural Language Semantics 30(1), 101-113.
(2022).
Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement.
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 40(4), 1159–1200.
(2022).
La estructura informativa del doblado de predicados.
Lexis 46(2), 523–550.
(2022).
Anáforas reflexivas y doblado de clíticos en lenguas romances.
Revue Romane 57(2), 288-310.
(2021).
Impossible Presuppositions. On factivity, focus, and triviality.
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1), 1-29.
(2021).
Focused verbal inflections in Spanish.
Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 7(5), 1-4.
(2021).
Nombres escuetos en contextos no verídicos.
Verba. Anuario Galego de Filoloxía 48, 1-29.
Talks (selected)
(2022).
Doubling phenomena in Spanish: repeating propositions vs repeating predicates.
Going Romance 2022. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
(2022).
Information-based “island effects” in Spanish clausal doubling.
GLOW 45. Queen Mary University of London.
(2021).
Prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from infinitival clauses.
Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 51). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(2021).
Sobre el doblado de predicados en español.
FiLing Sur 2021. Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas.
(2020).
Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic copying.
Comparative Syntax Meetings. Leiden University Center for Linguistics.
(2020).
Nombres desnudos en contextos no verídicos.
I Encuentro de la Red de Lingüistas en Formación.
(2019).
Predicate doubling asymmetries with factive clauses.
III Colóquio de Semântica Referencial. Universidade Federal de São Carlos.