Publications

This page lists my principal publications, with links where available. Articles are reproduced in their final submission format and so are not necessarily exactly as they appeared in print.

Books

1983 Structures and Transformations: the Romance Verb (London: Croom Helm).

1988 Songs from the Spanish Cancioneros (with Christine J. Whitbourn) (Kilkenny: Boethius Press).

1992 Using Spanish: A Guide to Contemporary Usage. (with R.E. Batchelor) (Cambridge: University Press).

1995 A Comprehensive Spanish Grammar, adapted and with additional material by Christopher J. Pountain (English version of J. De Bruyne, Spaanse Spraakkunst) (Oxford: Blackwell).

1997 Modern Spanish Grammar. A Practical Guide. (with Juan Kattán Ibarra) (London: Routledge).

2000 Practising Spanish Grammar (with Teresa de Carlos) (London: Arnold).

2001 A History of the Spanish Language through Texts (London: Routledge). [Link to publisher]

2003 Modern Spanish Grammar. A Practical Guide. (with Juan Kattán Ibarra), 2nd edition (London: Routledge). [Link to publisher]

2003 Exploring the Spanish Language (London: Arnold). [Link to publisher]

2005 Using Spanish: A Guide to Contemporary Usage. (with R.E. Batchelor), 2nd edition. (Cambridge: University Press). [Link to publisher]

2006 Practising Spanish Grammar. A Workbook. (with Teresa de Carlos and Angela Howkins), 2nd edition. (London: Arnold). [Link to publisher]

Edited books

2008 with Hilary Pomeroy & Elena Romero (eds), Proceedings of the Fourteenth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies (26-28 June 2006) (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London)

2012 with Hilary Pomeroy & Elena Romero (eds), Selected Papers from the Fifteenth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies (29-31 July 2008) (London: Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Queen Mary, University of London)

Articles

1982 '*ESSERE/STARE as a Romance Phenomenon', in Nigel Vincent & Martin Harris (eds), Studies in the Romance Verb. Essays Offered to Joe Cremona on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. (London: Croom Helm), pp.139-60. [Link to article (pdf format)]

1984 'How "become" became in Castilian', in Essays in honour of Robert Brian Tate from his colleagues and pupils, University of Nottingham Monographs in the Humanities, pp.101-11.

1984 'La noción de "devenir" en español', in Boletín de la Asociación europea de profesores de español, 31.111-6.

1985 'Copulas, verbs of possession and auxiliaries in Old Spanish: the evidence for structurally interdependent changes', in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 62.337-55.

1992 'La notion de devenir en roman', in Revue de Linguistique Romane, 56, 427-37.

1993 'Spanish Adjective Negation', in David Mackenzie & Ian Michael, eds, Hispanic Linguistic Studies in honour of F.W. Hodcroft (Llangrannog: Dolphin), pp. 107-126.

1993 'Aspect and voice: questions about passivization in Spanish', in Journal of Hispanic Research, 1, 167-181. [Link to article]

1993 'De la construçion de los verbos después de sí: la transitividad en la tradición gramatical española', in Ralph Penny (ed.) Actas del Primer Congreso Anglo-Hispano (Madrid: Castalia), pp.89-98. [Link to article]

1994 'The Castilian reflexes of ABHORRERE/ABHORRESCERE: a case-study in valency', in Coman Lupu & Glanville Price (eds), Hommages offerts à Maria Manoliu-Manea (Bucharest: Pluralia/Logos), pp.122-48. [Link to article]

1994 'Syntactic anglicisms in Spanish: innovation or exploitation?', in M.M. Parry, W.V. Davies & R.A.M. Davies (eds), The Changing Voices of Europe (Cardiff: University of Wales Press/MHRA), pp.109-24.

1995 'El difícil problema de la posición del adjetivo atributivo en español', Donaire, 4, 42-51.

1995 'Infinitives with overt subjects: a pragmatic approach', in T.F. Earle & Nigel Griffin (eds), Portuguese, Brazilian and African Studies: Studies presented to Clive Willis on his retirement (Warminster: Aris & Phillips), pp.11-25. [Link to article (pdf format)]

1996 'Attributive adjective position in the PMC', in Brian Powell & Geoffrey West (eds) Al que en buen hora naçio: Essays on the Spanish Epic and Ballad in Honour of Colin Smith (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press/MHRA), pp.129-46.

1998 'Gramática mítica del gerundio castellano', in Aengus M. Ward (ed), Actas del XII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Birmingham 1995. I. Medieval y Lingüística (Birmingham: University Press), pp.284-92.

1998 'Nuevo enfoque de la posición del adjetivo atributivo', in Giovanni Ruffino (ed), Atti del XXI Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza, Palermo, 18-24 settembre 1995,II. Morfologia e sintassi delle lingue romanze (Tübingen: Niemeyer), pp.607-708.

1998 'Person and voice in the Spanish infinitive', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool), 75, 393-410.

1998 'Learnèd Syntax and the Romance Languages: the "accusative and infinitive" construction with declarative verbs in Castilian', Transactions of the Philological Society, 96.2, 159-201.

1999 'Spanish and English in the 21st Century', Donaire, 12, 33-42. [Link to article]

2000 'Pragmatic Factors in the Evolution of the Romance Reflexive (with special reference to Spanish)', Hispanic Research Journal, 1.1, 5-25. [Link to article (pdf format)]

2000 'Capitalization', in John Charles Smith & Delia Bentley (eds), Historical Linguistics 1995, Volume 1: General Issues and non-Germanic Languages (Amsterdam: Benjamins), pp.295-309. [Link to article] [Link to publisher]

2000 'La supuesta ambigüedad del reflexivo español', in Annick Englebert, Michel Pierrard, Laurence Rosier & Dan Van Raemdonck (eds), Actes du 22e Congrès de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes, VII (Tübingen: Niemeyer), pp.615-24. [Link to article (pdf format)] [Link to publisher]

2003 'Pragmatic and Structural Reflections on the Expression of the Second Person Notion in Romance, with Special Reference to Spanish and Portuguese', Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 80.2, 145-160. [Link to article (pdf format)]

2005 'Gender without Sex: the semantic exploitation of the masculine/feminine opposition in the history of Spanish' in Roger Wright & Peter Ricketts (eds), Studies on Ibero-Romance Linguistics Dedicated to Ralph Penny (Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs), pp.329-48. [Link to article (pdf format)]

2006 'Gender and Spanish Agentive Suffixes: Where the Motivated Meets the Arbitrary', Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 83.1, 19-42. [Link to article (pdf format)]

2006 'Syntactic Borrowing as a Function of Register', in Anna Laura Lepschy & Arturo Tosi (eds), Rethinking Languages in Contact. The Case of Italian. (Oxford: Legenda), pp.99-111. [Link to article (pdf format)] [Link to publisher]

2006 'Towards a history of register in Spanish', in Spanish in Context, 3:1, 5-24. [Link to article (pdf format)]

2007 '"Spanglish": myths and realities', Vida Hispánica, 35, 14-18.

2008 'Las distintas gramáticas de los relativos españoles', in Concepción Company Company & José G. Moreno de Alba (eds), Actas del VII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española (Mérida, Yucatán), Vol.1, pp.967-980. [Link to article (pdf format)]

2009 'Variation in Address Forms in 16th-Century Spanish Prose Drama', in Sanda Reinheimer-Rîpeanu (ed), Stvdia Lingvistica in honorem Mariae Manoliu (Bucharest, Editura Universității din București), pp.282-293. [Link to article (pdf format)]

2011 'Latin and the Structure of Written Romance', in Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith & Adam Ledgeway (eds), The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages. Volume I: Structures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp.606-659.

2011 'Putting Philology back into Linguistics', Hispanic Research Journal, 12.2, 99-117.

2012 'Spanish Among the Ibero-Romance Languages', in José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea & Erin O'Rourke (eds), The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics (Malden MA / Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell), pp.47-64.

2012 'Dislocación popular y dislocación culta en la comedia en prosa del Siglo de Oro español', in Barbara Wehr & Frédéric Nicolosi (eds), Pragmatique historique et syntaxe / Historische Pragmatik und Syntax. Actes de la section du même nom du XXXIè Romanistentag allemand / Akten der gleichnamigen Sektion des XXXI. Deutschen Romanistentags (Bonn, 27.9. - 1.10.2009). (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang), pp.140-156.

Electronic publications

1997 'Frontiers, linguistic and political' (Contribution to a Round Table discussion at 'Language, Literature and Frontier', Forum for Iberian Studies, The Queen's College, Oxford, 17 May 1997). [Link]

2008 'The Genius of Language' (Lecture given at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 27 November 2008 [Link (pdf format)] [Local link (pdf format)]

2011 'A "big language" - dimensions of variation in modern Spanish' (Talk given at an MFL Workshop at Aston University, 3 June 2011 [Link (pdf format] [Local link (pdf format)]