Professor of Spanish Linguistics

Room:1.24
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8323
Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 5400
email: c.j.pountain@qmul.ac.uk
Website: http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/cjpountain/

Publications

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: an advanced learner's guide (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. A Workbook. (with Teresa de Carlos) (London: Arnold).
• 2001 A History of the Spanish Language through Texts (London: Routledge).
• 2003  Modern Spanish Grammar. A Practical Guide. (with Juan Kattán Ibarra), 2nd edition (London: Routledge).
• 2003 Exploring the Spanish Language (London: Arnold).
• 2005 Using Spanish: A Guide to Contemporary Usage. (with R.E. Batchelor), 2nd edition. (Cambridge: University Press).
• 2006 Practising Spanish Grammar. A Workbook. (with Teresa de Carlos and Angela Howkins, 2nd edition. (London: Arnold).

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.
• 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 .
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2000 'Pragmatic Factors in the Evolution of the Romance Reflexive (with special reference to Spanish)', Hispanic Research Journal , 1.1, 5-25.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2006 'Gender and Spanish Agentive Suffixes: Where the Motivated Meets the Arbitrary', Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 83.1, 19-42.
• 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.
• 2006 'Towards a history of register in Spanish', in Spanish in Context, 3:1, 5-24.

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