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AVELINO CORRAL ESTEBAN

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Filología Inglesa, Faculty Member

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Avelino Corral Esteban works as a Lecturer in Linguistics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, where he teaches courses on syntax, historical linguistics, and information structure. His principal research interest is the study of the grammar of the Native American languages spoken in the area of the Great Plains in the USA and Canada, the interaction between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics across languages, and the comparative analysis of the syntax of Romance, Germanic, and Celtic languages. He has collaborated in research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the United Kingdom, and the US ACTA´s Living Culture Grants Program, and he leads the Honóxease Project, whose aim is to foster the preservation and revitalization of the Cheyenne language. He is the author of five book chapters, published by Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, and Routledge, and ca. twenty research articles, which have appeared in major linguistics journals (e.g. Acta Linguistica Academica, WORD, RESLA, Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, Journal of Language Contact, or Language and Intercultural Communication).

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Book chapters by AVELINO CORRAL ESTEBAN

Multi-verb constructions in Cheyenne

Argument realization in Complex Predicates and Complex Events: Verb- Verb constructions at the Syntax- Semantics Interface, John Benjamins, 2016

The difficult task of finding a standard writing system for the Sioux languages.

Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages, Cambridge University Press, 2017

Tracing the development of intercultural competence in telecollaborative interaction: An analysis of evaluative language in eTandem exchanges

by AVELINO CORRAL ESTEBAN and Margarita Vinagre Laranjeira

Redefining Tandem Language and Culture Learning in Higher Education, Routledge, 2019

Papers by AVELINO CORRAL ESTEBAN

A comparative study of English, Lakhota and Cheyenne syntax within the framework of role and reference grammar

Esta tesis tiene como finalidad desarrollar un estudio de las lenguas ingles, lakota y cheyenne p... more Esta tesis tiene como finalidad desarrollar un estudio de las lenguas ingles, lakota y cheyenne por medio de su comparacion sintactica, tomando como base metodologica la Gramatica del Papel y la Referencia. Basandonos en los principios metodologicos de este enfoque, para analizar la realizacion sintactica tanto de las oraciones simples como de las complejas, deberemos recurrir al estudio semantico de los predicados, ya que segun este marco teorico, las cualidades semanticas de los predicados condicionan y motivan las diferentes estructuras sintacticas que se dan en una lengua determinada. Asi mismo, puntualmente tambien recurriremos a la pragmatica porque en la relacion del contexto con la sintaxis y semantica es donde se aprecian los rasgos especificos mas importantes de cada una de las lenguas. Teniendo en cuenta todo lo anterior, procederemos a la interaccion entre los sistemas sintactico y semantico por medio del conjunto de reglas u operaciones llamadas algoritmo de enlace, el ...

Chapter 3. An account of the use of fronting and clefting in Cornish English

English Historical Linguistics, 2022

The Ordering Of Lakota Verbal Affixes

Resumen: Mucho ha sido escrito sobre el orden de los afijos pronominales en Lakota (Siouan, 6,000... more Resumen: Mucho ha sido escrito sobre el orden de los afijos pronominales en Lakota (Siouan, 6,000 hablantes: EEUU y Canada) en los ultimos 150 anos. Las propuestas tienden a seguir dos enfoques opuestos. Uno de estos enfoques defiende que el orden relativo entre los marcadores de los argumentos del predicado esta relacionado con la asignacion de caso o del papel semantico, de tal forma que las formas pronominales estaticas, las cuales marcan caso acusativo y representan al paciente, preceden a las formas activas, las cuales marcan caso nominativo y representan al agente. El otro enfoque sostiene que el posicionamiento de los afijos pronominales en esta lengua depende del concepto de persona, de modo que estos afijos siguen el orden tercera persona + primera persona + segunda persona. Este articulo tiene como objetivo arrojar alguna luz sobre la cuestion del orden de los afijos pronominales en Lakota a traves del analisis de ejemplos de verbos estaticos transitivos aportados por dos ...

The influence of the focus structure on the placement of pronominal clitics in Asturian

Revista de Filoloxía Asturiana, 2016

Tracing the Development of Intercultural Competence in Telecollaborative Interaction

Redefining Tandem Language and Culture Learning in Higher Education, 2019

An analysis of transitivity in Cheyenne

Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 2014

A Functional Discourse Grammar account of voice in Plains Algonquian Languages

Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar

A Study of DOM in Asturian (‘Dialectu Vaqueiru’)

Journal of Language Contact

The present paper explores Differential Object Marking in a variety of Asturian (Western Iberian ... more The present paper explores Differential Object Marking in a variety of Asturian (Western Iberian Romance) spoken in western Asturias (northwestern Spain). This ancestral form of speech stands out from Central Asturian and especially from Standard Spanish. For a number of reasons, ranging from profound changes in pronunciation, vocabulary, morphology and information structure to slight but very relevant effects on syntax. The main goal of this study is to examine the special marking of direct objects in order to find out what triggers the distribution of Differential Object Marking in this variety. To this aim, this paper will examine, from a variationist perspective, the influence of a number of semantic and discourse-pragmatic parameters on the marking of direct objects in this Western Asturian language as well as in Standard Spanish 1 and Central Asturian (which is generally considered the normative variety of Asturian). The results obtained from this comparison will allow us to o...

The structure of content questions in Cheyenne

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This article has as its main goal to investigate interrogative sentences in Cheyenne and therefor... more This article has as its main goal to investigate interrogative sentences in Cheyenne and therefore adds to the diversity of such analyses found in other Algonquian languages. This paper attempts to provide evidence that content questions in this language differ in structure depending on the status of the questioned element as an argument or adjunct and that content questions involving an interrogative pronoun are bi-clausal, as they exhibit a cleft-like structure such that the fronted &#39;wh&#39;-word functions as the stative predicate of a copular clause that is generated sentence-initially encoding the focus of the construction. By contrast, content questions requiring an interrogative adverb are mono-clausal and exhibit &#39;wh&#39;movement in the traditional sense, that is through &#39;wh&#39;-fronting. Thus, this paper intends to contribute to the long-standing discussion on whether Algonquian &#39;wh&#39;-questions have a mono-clausal structure, involving traditional &#39;wh&#39;movement or a bi-clausal structure, exhibiting &#39;wh&#39;-clefting.

Exploring virtual collaborative writing in the EFL classroom

Taalas, P., Jalkanen, J., Bradley, L.& Thouësny, S. (Eds). Future-proof CALL: Language learning as exploration and encounters, 2018

With the integration of new technologies in the foreign language classroom, the practice of colla... more With the integration of new technologies in the foreign language classroom, the practice of collaborative writing has gained renewed attention, although some questions still remain unanswered regarding the extent to which these tools help learners in their writing when compared to more traditional learning contexts (Elola & Oskoz, 2010). In order to explore these issues, we analysed the written production of 84 undergraduate students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) using the LIWC2015 4 software. The analysis revealed significant differences in categories such as word count, clout, emotional tone, or analytical thinking when comparing the texts written by an experimental and a control group. Moreover, regarding discourse, some differences were observed in terms of the way information was presented and structured.

Multi-verb constructions in Cheyenne

Studies in Language Companion Series, 2017

An RRG account on Lakhota and Cheyenne relative clauses

RAEL, 2011

Evaluative language for rapport building in virtual collaboration: An analysis of Appraisal in computer-mediated interaction

Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication, 2018

The order of Lakota verbal affixes

Dialogia, 2015

Layers and operators in Lakota

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2015

Confirming assumptions made by the framework of Role and Reference Grammar through the analysis of Lakota and Cheyenne

Wiener Linguistische Gazette, 2014

This paper has as its specific objective an attempt to put to the test two important assumptions ... more

An RRG analysis of questions in Lakhota

ITB, 2012

Multi-verb constructions in Cheyenne

Argument realization in Complex Predicates and Complex Events: Verb- Verb constructions at the Syntax- Semantics Interface, John Benjamins, 2016

The difficult task of finding a standard writing system for the Sioux languages.

Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages, Cambridge University Press, 2017

Tracing the development of intercultural competence in telecollaborative interaction: An analysis of evaluative language in eTandem exchanges

by AVELINO CORRAL ESTEBAN and Margarita Vinagre Laranjeira

Redefining Tandem Language and Culture Learning in Higher Education, Routledge, 2019

A comparative study of English, Lakhota and Cheyenne syntax within the framework of role and reference grammar

Esta tesis tiene como finalidad desarrollar un estudio de las lenguas ingles, lakota y cheyenne p... more Esta tesis tiene como finalidad desarrollar un estudio de las lenguas ingles, lakota y cheyenne por medio de su comparacion sintactica, tomando como base metodologica la Gramatica del Papel y la Referencia. Basandonos en los principios metodologicos de este enfoque, para analizar la realizacion sintactica tanto de las oraciones simples como de las complejas, deberemos recurrir al estudio semantico de los predicados, ya que segun este marco teorico, las cualidades semanticas de los predicados condicionan y motivan las diferentes estructuras sintacticas que se dan en una lengua determinada. Asi mismo, puntualmente tambien recurriremos a la pragmatica porque en la relacion del contexto con la sintaxis y semantica es donde se aprecian los rasgos especificos mas importantes de cada una de las lenguas. Teniendo en cuenta todo lo anterior, procederemos a la interaccion entre los sistemas sintactico y semantico por medio del conjunto de reglas u operaciones llamadas algoritmo de enlace, el ...

Chapter 3. An account of the use of fronting and clefting in Cornish English

English Historical Linguistics, 2022

The Ordering Of Lakota Verbal Affixes

Resumen: Mucho ha sido escrito sobre el orden de los afijos pronominales en Lakota (Siouan, 6,000... more Resumen: Mucho ha sido escrito sobre el orden de los afijos pronominales en Lakota (Siouan, 6,000 hablantes: EEUU y Canada) en los ultimos 150 anos. Las propuestas tienden a seguir dos enfoques opuestos. Uno de estos enfoques defiende que el orden relativo entre los marcadores de los argumentos del predicado esta relacionado con la asignacion de caso o del papel semantico, de tal forma que las formas pronominales estaticas, las cuales marcan caso acusativo y representan al paciente, preceden a las formas activas, las cuales marcan caso nominativo y representan al agente. El otro enfoque sostiene que el posicionamiento de los afijos pronominales en esta lengua depende del concepto de persona, de modo que estos afijos siguen el orden tercera persona + primera persona + segunda persona. Este articulo tiene como objetivo arrojar alguna luz sobre la cuestion del orden de los afijos pronominales en Lakota a traves del analisis de ejemplos de verbos estaticos transitivos aportados por dos ...

The influence of the focus structure on the placement of pronominal clitics in Asturian

Revista de Filoloxía Asturiana, 2016

Tracing the Development of Intercultural Competence in Telecollaborative Interaction

Redefining Tandem Language and Culture Learning in Higher Education, 2019

An analysis of transitivity in Cheyenne

Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 2014

A Functional Discourse Grammar account of voice in Plains Algonquian Languages

Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar

A Study of DOM in Asturian (‘Dialectu Vaqueiru’)

Journal of Language Contact

The present paper explores Differential Object Marking in a variety of Asturian (Western Iberian ... more The present paper explores Differential Object Marking in a variety of Asturian (Western Iberian Romance) spoken in western Asturias (northwestern Spain). This ancestral form of speech stands out from Central Asturian and especially from Standard Spanish. For a number of reasons, ranging from profound changes in pronunciation, vocabulary, morphology and information structure to slight but very relevant effects on syntax. The main goal of this study is to examine the special marking of direct objects in order to find out what triggers the distribution of Differential Object Marking in this variety. To this aim, this paper will examine, from a variationist perspective, the influence of a number of semantic and discourse-pragmatic parameters on the marking of direct objects in this Western Asturian language as well as in Standard Spanish 1 and Central Asturian (which is generally considered the normative variety of Asturian). The results obtained from this comparison will allow us to o...

The structure of content questions in Cheyenne

<i>WORD</i>

This article has as its main goal to investigate interrogative sentences in Cheyenne and therefor... more This article has as its main goal to investigate interrogative sentences in Cheyenne and therefore adds to the diversity of such analyses found in other Algonquian languages. This paper attempts to provide evidence that content questions in this language differ in structure depending on the status of the questioned element as an argument or adjunct and that content questions involving an interrogative pronoun are bi-clausal, as they exhibit a cleft-like structure such that the fronted &#39;wh&#39;-word functions as the stative predicate of a copular clause that is generated sentence-initially encoding the focus of the construction. By contrast, content questions requiring an interrogative adverb are mono-clausal and exhibit &#39;wh&#39;movement in the traditional sense, that is through &#39;wh&#39;-fronting. Thus, this paper intends to contribute to the long-standing discussion on whether Algonquian &#39;wh&#39;-questions have a mono-clausal structure, involving traditional &#39;wh&#39;movement or a bi-clausal structure, exhibiting &#39;wh&#39;-clefting.

Exploring virtual collaborative writing in the EFL classroom

Taalas, P., Jalkanen, J., Bradley, L.& Thouësny, S. (Eds). Future-proof CALL: Language learning as exploration and encounters, 2018

With the integration of new technologies in the foreign language classroom, the practice of colla... more With the integration of new technologies in the foreign language classroom, the practice of collaborative writing has gained renewed attention, although some questions still remain unanswered regarding the extent to which these tools help learners in their writing when compared to more traditional learning contexts (Elola & Oskoz, 2010). In order to explore these issues, we analysed the written production of 84 undergraduate students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) using the LIWC2015 4 software. The analysis revealed significant differences in categories such as word count, clout, emotional tone, or analytical thinking when comparing the texts written by an experimental and a control group. Moreover, regarding discourse, some differences were observed in terms of the way information was presented and structured.

Multi-verb constructions in Cheyenne

Studies in Language Companion Series, 2017

An RRG account on Lakhota and Cheyenne relative clauses

RAEL, 2011

Evaluative language for rapport building in virtual collaboration: An analysis of Appraisal in computer-mediated interaction

Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication, 2018

The order of Lakota verbal affixes

Dialogia, 2015

Layers and operators in Lakota

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2015

Confirming assumptions made by the framework of Role and Reference Grammar through the analysis of Lakota and Cheyenne

Wiener Linguistische Gazette, 2014

This paper has as its specific objective an attempt to put to the test two important assumptions ... more

An RRG analysis of questions in Lakhota

ITB, 2012

A comparative analysis of three-place predicates in Lakhota within the RRG framework.

RESLA, 2012

Does there exist passive voice in Lakhota and Cheyenne?”

Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2014

An analysis of transitivity in Cheyenne

Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 2014

An account of Lakota verbal affixes in transitive stative verbs

HAL, 2014

Exploring virtual collaborative writing in the EFL classroom

by AVELINO CORRAL ESTEBAN and Margarita Vinagre Laranjeira

EUROCALL, 2018

With the integration of new technologies in the foreign language classroom, the practice of colla... more With the integration of new technologies in the foreign language classroom, the practice of collaborative writing has gained renewed attention, although some questions still remain unanswered regarding the extent to which these tools help learners in their writing when compared to more traditional learning contexts (Elola & Oskoz, 2010). In order to explore these issues, we analysed the written production of 84 undergraduate students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) using the LIWC2015 4 such as word count, clout, emotional tone, or analytical thinking when comparing the texts written by an experimental and a control group. Moreover, regarding discourse, some differences were observed in terms of the way information was presented and structured.