Javier Rivas

Research areas

Usage-based grammar, discourse syntax, language variation and change, Hispanic linguistics, Galician linguistics

Publications

• 2025.  Principios de lingüística hispánica. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. (Co-author: Gabriel Rei-Doval).
• 2025. verb-indirect object-direct object and verb-direct object-indirect object: A variationist analysis of oral Spanish. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 11/5: 1-20, https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.511.
• 2025. Testing cumulative lexicalized effects in study abroad: Variable subject pronoun expression in Spanish as an additional language. Languages 10/5: 110,  https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10050110. (Co-authors: Esther L. Brown and Tracy Quan).
• 2025. Does increased grammaticalization yield decreased duration? Testing vamos a variants in Spanish. Spanish sociolinguistics in the 21^st century. Current trends and methodologies. Eds. Cecilia Montes-Alcalá and Miguel García. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 131-147. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown).
• 2024. Collín e expliqueime / vai el e di: unha aproximación baseada no uso ás construcións hendiádicas en galego. Cumieira das Letras 3: 271-289.
• 2024. Variant choices of future time reference in Galician: the grammaticalization of [haber (de) + infinitive] as a window to diachronic change. Languages 9/40: 142, https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9040142. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown).
• 2024. Constructional sources of durational shortening in discourse markers. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences 62/4: 1023-1045. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown).
• 2023. The future of usage-based approaches. In Manuel Díaz-Campos and Sonia Balasch eds. The handbook of usage-based linguistics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons, 475-489.
• 2023. Variable indirect object pronoun expression: A usage-based analysis of Galician and Spanish. In Peter Herbeck and Pekka Posio eds. Referring to discourse participants in Ibero-Romance languages. Berlin, Germany: Language Science Press, 41-67. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown).
• 2023. Rates and constraints of Present Perfect and Preterit in Costa Rican Spanish: A variationist approach. In Brandon Baird, Osmer Balam and María del Carmen Parafita Couto eds. Linguistic advances in Central American Spanish. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 238-259. (Co-author: Érick Pineda).
• 2023. Ser, estar y los verbos semicopulativos. In Guillermo Rojo, Victoria Vázquez Rozas and Rena Torres Cacoullos eds. Sintaxis del español. The Routledge handbook of Spanish syntax. Oxford: Taylor and Francis Group, 327-338.
• 2022. El infinitivo flexionado en gallego: Un análisis léxico basado en el uso. In Enrico Torre ed. El mapa lingüístico del noroccidente ibérico: contacto, variación y cambio. München, Germany: Lincom Europa, 39-57. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown).
• 2022. Presente y Antepresente como marcadores de perfecto continuativo en español: un análisis variacionista e interdialectal. Cuadernos de la Alfal 14/1: 58-78.
• 2021. Editor of Revisiting language variation and change: Looking at metalinguistic categories through a usage-based lens [Special Issue] Languages: https://www.mdpi.com/si/42414 [9 articles, 196pp] (Co-editor: Esther L. Brown).
• 2021. O infinitivo flexionado en galego: unha análise variacionista baseada na lingua oral. Estudos de Lingüística Galega 13: 1-27. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown).
• 2019.Bringing purported black sheep into the fold: Galician inflected infinitives and Spanish pre-infinitival nominative subjects. Languages 4/40: doi:10.3390/languages4020040. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown).
• 2018. Variable subject pronominal expression in non-finite clauses: implications for variant patterns and emergent contexts. Lingua. An International Review of General Linguistics 215: 27-39. (Co-authors: Esther L. Brown and Mayra Cortés-Torres).
• 2018. Immediacy, counter-expectation, and grammatical marking: intransitive constructions with an accusative clitic in Galician/Galego. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 11/2: 367-393.
• 2016. Verb-object compounds with Spanish dar ‘give’: An emergent gustar ‘like’ – type construction. WORD. A Journal of the International Linguistics Association 62/1: 1-21.
• 2016. Gramática funcional. In Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach ed. Enciclopedia de lingüística hispánica. Vol. 1. London/New York: Routledge, 127-137.
• 2015. Null direct objects in Spanish conversation. Hispanic Research Journal 16/2: 107-126. (Co-author: Ivo Sánchez-Ayala).
• 2013. Variable subject position in main and subordinate clauses in Spanish: a usage-based approach. Moenia. Revista Lucense de Lingüística & Literatura 19: 97-113.
• 2013. A usage-based analysis of morphosyntactic variation in the complementation of manipulative verbs. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana XI/1: 155-171
• 2012. Procesos de gramaticalización en el desarrollo de las aportaciones reactivas: el caso de efectivamente. In Emilio Montero Cartelle and Carmen Manzano Rovira eds. Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española. Santiago de Compostela 14-18 de Septiembre de 2009. Santiago de Compostela: Meubook, 2363-2374. (Co-author: Ivo Sánchez-Ayala).
• 2012. Concordancia variable con haber en español puertorriqueño. Boletín de Lingüística XXIV/37-38: 102-118. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown)
• 2012. Stage-level and individual-level distinction in morphological variation: an example with variable haber agreement.  Borealis. An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 1/2: 73-90. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown)
• 2012. Grammatical relation probability: how usage patterns shape analogy. Language Variation and Change 24/3: 317-341. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown)
• 2011.‘Como no me trago el humo...:’ a corpus-based approach to aspectual se. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 4/2: 379-416
• 2011. Correlaciones entre forma y función en las construcciones interrogativas parciales del español de Puerto Rico. Estudios de Lingüística. Universidad de Alicante 25: 289-315. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown)
• 2011. Subject–verb word-order in Spanish interrogatives: a quantitative analysis of Puerto Rican Spanish. Spanish in Context 8/1: 23-49. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown)
• 2010. Las interrogativas hendidas en español: ¿cómo es que se usan? Southwest Journal of Linguistics 29/2: 75-95. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown)
• 2010. Variable development of intersubjectivity in Spanish. In Aquilino Sánchez and Moisés Almela eds. A Mosaic of Corpus Linguistics. Selected Approaches. Berlin: Peter Lang, 61-78. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown)
• 2009.  Lenguaje, representación y tipología en la obra de Ángel Amor Ruibal. Moenia. Revista Lucense de Lingüística & Literatura 15: 83-107. (Co-author: Juan J. López Rivera)
• 2009. No sé as a discourse marker in Spanish: a corpus-based approach to a cross-dialectal comparison. In Pascual Cantos Gómez and Aquilino Sánchez Pérez eds. A Survey on Corpus-Based Research. Panorama de investigaciones basadas en corpus. Murcia: AELINCO, 631-645. (Co-author: Esther L. Brown)
• 2008. La posición del sujeto en las construcciones monoactanciales del español: una aproximación funcional. Hispania91/4: 897-912.
• 2007. Aspectos sintácticos y semánticos del pronombre se. Boletín de Lingüística XIX/28: 5-25. (Co-authors: Francesco D’Introno and Verónica González)
• 2006. The pragmatic motivation of ergativity: a prototype analysis. In Montserrat López Díaz and María Montes López eds. Perspectives Fonctionnelles: Emprunts, Économie et Variation dans les Langues. Lugo: Axac, 453-458.
• 2006. Iconicity and diachronic change: two processes in conspiracy or in competition? Southern Journal of Linguistics 28/1-2: 16-33.
• 2004. Clause structure typology: grammatical relations in cross-linguistic perspective. Lugo: Tris Tram. Reviews by W. Schulze in E-language (05/16/2010: http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=500) and by C. Hagège in Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 105/2 (2010): 26-34.
• 2002. Complementos directos periféricos. In Ramón Lorenzo ed. Homenaxe a Fernando R. Tato Plaza. Univ. de Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións, 255-266.
• 2002. Ergatividad y gradaciones transitivas en la construcción de acusativo con infinitivo. In María Dolores Muñoz Núñez, Ana Isabel Rodríguez-Piñero Alcalá, Gérard Fernández Smith and Victoria Benítez Soto eds. IV Congreso de Lingüística General. Volumen IV. Comunicaciones. Universidad de Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2213-2224.
• 2000. Ergativity and transitive gradients in the accusative and infinitive construction. A cross-linguistic typological approach.  Universidade de Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico. Reviews by G. Lazard in Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 96/2 (2001): 79-80, by O. Fischer in Linguistics 40/6 (2002): 1251-1256, and by L. Rolfe in Word 53/2 (2002): 260-263.
• 2000.  The position of subject clauses in the history of English. Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 21: 87-112.