Anna Pineda

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Ramón y Cajar Senior Fellow, Departament de Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General
Universitat de Barcelona

Anna Pineda


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Anna Pineda holds a degree in Catalan Philology with an Extraordinary Award (2009) from the University of Barcelona, a master’s in Advanced Studies in Catalan Language and Literature (2010), and a PhD in Cognitive Science and Language (2014) with an Extraordinary Award. Her doctoral thesis on syntactic variation in Catalan, Romance languages, and Basque won the Cum Laude Award. Since completing her dissertation, she has conducted research at Pompeu Fabra University, University of Barcelona, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), University of Cambridge, Sorbonne Université in Paris, and Universität zu Köln, supported by competitive grants and research contracts. She is now an established researcher at the University of Barcelona.

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Scopus Publications

  • On hybrid verb classes: The view from meal verbs in Romance
    Josep Ausensi, Anna Pineda
    Acta Linguistica Academica, 2025
    This paper analyzes the behavior of meal verbs in Romance, i.e., have lunch/breakfast/dinner, a verb class which we observe shows apparently contradictory behavior in the syntactic diagnostics broadly used to distinguish between unergative and unaccusative verbs. Building on Pineda & Berro's (2020) proposal for Basque, we argue meal verbs in Romance involve a hybrid syntactic structure: their subject is associated with more than one distinct functional head and is therefore thematically interpreted as a hybrid subject since it is assigned both an agent/initiator and a patient/undergoer thematic role. We show our proposal is able to account for the discrepancies attested by meal verbs when subjected to diagnostics that probe for unergative and unaccusative properties and the distinct syntactic properties this verb class exhibits when compared to their equivalents in Old Romance.
  • Arbitrary SE and accusative clitics in Catalan: Resolving (mis)matches in the syntax
    Monica Irimia, Anna Pineda
    Isogloss, 2025
    This paper is dedicated to co-occurrence restrictions induced by accusative clitics in contexts containing the se marker with arbitrary interpretations. A less discussed pattern from Catalan is scrutinized in detail, through a comparison with Spanish data, which are better studied. Catalan is special in that accusative clitics do not uniformly produce ungrammaticality under arbitrary se: the neuter ho clitic is not acceptable, while the l-clitic, restricted to individuation and/or animacy, is possible. We show that these splits are rooted in the syntax. Individuation and animate accusative clitics contain additional person features which, due to their more extensive possibilities to get licensed, can avoid structural restrictions imposed by the presence of an impersonal/arbitrary structural component in the clausal configuration.
  • TOWARDS A HISTORICAL DIALECTAL APPROACH TO DIFFERENTIAL OBJECT MARKING IN CATALAN
    Pineda, Anna
    Journal of Historical Syntax, 2023
    This paper offers a description of the emergence and development of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Old Catalan, focusing on the perspective of historical dialectology and thus paying special attention to the dialectal differences that emerge. It does so by means of a large corpus study comprising the period from the first written texts to the 18th century. Although, in present-day Catalan, DOM is widespread with human direct objects in most dialects, its use is generally rejected by prescriptive grammar, as the phenomenon has often been attributed to Spanish influence. However, diachronic findings point to an analysis of DOM in Catalan as a fruit of the internal evolution of the language: instances of the phenomenon with human direct objects are found in earlier Catalan texts. Spanish influence (related to a series of sociopolitical events) only comes into play later, causing an exponential increase of the frequency of DOM in Catalan. Interestingly, consistent geolectal differences can be observed when analysing Old Catalan texts, with Valencian texts offering the highest number of occurrences. In this context, one must take into consideration the influence of Aragonese in Valencia (people from Aragon repopulated the area) as well as Spanish, whose effects in the Catalan-speaking area became particularly prevalent especially from the 16th century onwards. The conclusions of this study aim to provide empirically and theoretically informed research not only to identify historical dialects within Romance languages – in this case Catalan – but also to pave the way for more studies on historical comparative dialectology. As a matter of fact, in this study, the status of DOM in Old Spanish and Old Aragonese has also been taken into account.
  • A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire–infinitive causative: New evidence from Catalan
    Anna Pineda, Michelle Sheehan
    Syntax, 2023
    Catalan, like Italian and French, displays (notwithstanding certain complications) a pattern in causatives under facere such that the causee can be realized as dative only where its complement is “transitive.” We propose an analysis of this pattern based on Cyclic Agree. On our approach, transitivity‐sensitive dative arises where a probe agrees with a DP that requires case licensing, having previously probed (potentially defectively) a closer XP of any kind. Downward Cyclic Agree is possible, in this context, because neither goal c‐commands the other, which makes them both visible to a single higher probe. This model captures the basic transitivity‐sensitive pattern and the Strict Person–Case Constraint effects observed in this domain as well as the fact that dative is triggered not only by DPs requiring structural/dependent case but also by “defective interveners” (PPs, CPs, case‐marked DPs/clitics). We show that this Agree‐based account has potential advantages over competing dependent‐case approaches.
  • DIFFERENTIAL OBJECT MARKING IN CATALAN: WHERE DO WE COME FROM AND WHERE DO WE GO TO?
    Anna Pineda
    Caplletra, 2023
    En aquest treball analitzem l’acusatiu preposicional del català tant des del punt de vista de l’evolució diacrònica del fenomen com des de la perspectiva de l’abast que presenta en el conjunt dels dialectes catalans avui dia. Primer, a partir d’un exhaustiu estudi de corpus de la llengua antiga hem constatat que el fenomen ja existia en la llengua medieval (amb pronoms personals, noms propis i SN), de manera que, en aquest sentit, pot considerar-se un fenomen genuí. Ara bé, les dades diacròniques indiquen també diàfanament que a partir del segle XVI, quan la influència de l’espanyol esdevé una realitat cada cop més severa, el percentatge d’ús de la preposició a davant de CD augmenta exponencialment.Si bé a inicis del segle XX la publicació de la normativa fabriana significà un abans i un després en l’aparició del fenomen en els textos escrits formals, el fet és que la comunitat catalanòfona no s’ha arribat a desprendre mai d’aquest recurs morfosintàctic, ans al contrari. Així ho confirmem a bastament a partir d’un estudi a gran escala sobre l’abast del fenomen en el conjunt dels dialectes catalans, basat en entrevistes individuals amb vora 400 parlants, que fan tasques tant de producció d’oracions com d’emissió de judicis de gramaticalitat.
  • PRESENTATION
    Anna Pineda
    Caplletra, 2023
    Presentació del monogràfic «El complement directe preposicional: una visió panromànica», coordinat per Anna Pineda.
  • A micro-comparative approach to DOM in language-contact environments The case of Catalan, Basque and Spanish
    Ane Odria, Anna Pineda
    Linguistik Aktuell, 2023
    This paper focuses on the interaction between Spanish DOM, on the one hand, and Basque and Catalan DOM on the other. We thus address the contact situation attested among these languages from a micro-comparative perspective and we base on both diachronic as well as synchronic data. In Basque the phenomenon is attested in Southwestern1 varieties, that is, in those varieties which are in contact with Spanish. In Catalan, it is widespread across most dialects, except for Roussillon Catalan (spoken in France), which aligns with Basque Northeastern varieties, also in contact with French. In both languages, the use of DOM has traditionally been considered by the prescriptive grammars as the result of the influence and pressure of Spanish, although several factors lead us to relativize the impact of such contact scenario.
  • Differential object marking in Catalan Descriptive and theoretical aspects
    Monica Alexandrina Irimia, Anna Pineda
    Linguistic Variation, 2022
    In this paper we provide a comprehensive picture of differential object marking in Catalan, focusing on both the empirical facts and their theoretical contribution. We support some important conclusions. First, Catalan differential object marking is quite a robust and widespread phenomenon, contrary to what prescriptive grammars assume. Second, we show that, from a formal perspective, Catalan differential object marking cannot be completely subsumed under hierarchical generalizations known asscales. The contribution of narrow syntax mechanisms and nominal structure is fundamental, supporting recent views byLópez (2012)or Ormazabal and Romero (2007,2010,2013a,b), a.o. Building on these works as well as on observations initially made byCornilescu (2000)andRodríguez-Mondoñedo (2007), a.o., we adopt an analysis under which canonical, animacy-based differential marking results from the presence of an additional (PERSON) feature, beyond Case. This structural make-up is not only at the core of differences marked objects exhibit from unmarked objects with a Case feature, but also derives the prominence of differential marking on (animates) under information-structure processes, in the high left (and right) periphery, in contexts of the type discussed by Escandell-Vidal (2007a,b,2009).
  • When Restructuring and Clause Union Meet in Catalan and Beyond
    Anna Pineda, Michelle Sheehan
    Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022
    This paper considers what happens when clause union meets restructuring by examining contexts where the causative FACERE verb takes a restructuring verb as its complement in Catalan, in comparison with French and Italian. We show that in Catalan and Italian and to some degree also French, in such contexts, the case realisation of the causee as accusative/dative depends on the transitivity of the next clause down. We call this effect, first discussed by Burzio (1986) for Italian, ‘restructuring for transitivity’. We then move our attention to the interaction between restructuring for transitivity and other restructuring and clause union phenomena such as clitic climbing and se deletion, and discuss several theoretical challenges posed by these interactions.
  • The development of DOM in the diachrony of Catalan: (Dis)similarities with respect to Spanish
    Anna Pineda
    Differential Object Marking in Romance the Third Wave, 2021
    The existence of Differential Object Marking (DOM) is well-established in a number of Romance languages and varieties, such as Spanish and Romanian, where its use extends to several types of direct objects. For other languages in the Romance family, like Catalan, DOM is often considered to be absent, except for personal pronouns and a few other cases -at least from the perspective of normative grammar. However, in most varieties of Catalan, DOM applies to human direct objects generally, including proper names, definites and some indefinites, and even occasionally extends to bare plurals or inanimates. Although an exhaustive dialectal survey on the exact prevalence of DOM has yet to be carried out, it is clear that it is widespread and features in many dialects. While one might initially assume that this is the result of the influence of Spanish, such instances (at least partially) might in fact have arisen from the internal evolution of Catalan. Crucially, instances of DOM were remarkably abundant in Old Catalan, although this has sometimes gone quite unnoticed. That is, instances of DOM with proper names and human NPs are found in earlier Catalan texts (in the 13 th to 15 th centuries), and increase quite significantly from the 16 th century on, reaching very high percentages of occurrences in some texts. The aim of this paper is to offer an account of the emergence and development of DOM in Catalan over time, showing the commonalities with neighbouring Spanish, as well as the important differences that distinguish these two languages. This is a large corpus study, based on the Corpus Informatitzat del Catal Antic, and comprising the period from the first written texts to the 16 th century, with some notes on the 17 th century too.
  • Into adpositions New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation
    Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu, Anna Pineda
    Linguistic Variation, 2021
  • The Role of SE and NE in Romance Verbs of Directed Motion: Evidence from Catalan, Italian, Aragonese and Spanish Varieties
    Anna Pineda
    Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2021
  • On the setting of scales in the diachrony of differential object marking∗
    Monica Alexandrina Irimia, Anna Pineda
    Journal of Historical Syntax, 2021
  • AsINES: An interactive atlas for the study of syntactic variation of Spanish
    Alba Cerrudo, Anna Pineda
    Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2021
  • Differential object marking and scale reversals
    Monica Alexandrina Irimia, Anna Pineda
    Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2021
  • A debate on Universal Morphology
    Roberta D'Alessandro, Ángel Gallego, Alexandru Nicolae, María Carme Parafita Couto, Diego Pescarini, Anna Pineda, Michelle Sheehan
    Isogloss, 2021
  • Double-Object Constructions in Romance: The Common Denominator
    Anna Pineda
    Syntax, 2020
  • From dative to accusative. An ongoing syntactic change in Romance
    Anna Pineda
    Probus, 2020
  • Dative constructions in Romance and beyond
    Anna Pineda, Jaume Mateu
    Dative Constructions in Romance and Beyond, 2020
  • Dative constructions across languages: An introduction
    Dative Constructions in Romance and Beyond, 2020
  • Hybrid intransitives in Basque
    Anna Pineda, Ane Berro
    Glossa, 2020
  • Aspects of transitivity at the beginning of Modern Catalan
    Anna Pineda
    Caplletra, 2019
  • The role of dative clitic doubling in romance ditransitives. what non-agreeing dative clitics can tell us about it
    Revue Roumaine De Linguistique, 2019
  • Light Verb Constructions in Basque and Romance
    Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Anna Pineda
    Grammars and Sketches of the World S Languages, 2019
  • Differential objects and datives A homogeneous class?
    Monica Alexandrina Irimia, Anna Pineda
    Lingvisticae Investigationes, 2019
  • Causativization of verbs of directed motion in Romance languages
    Anna Pineda
    Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2018
  • Syntactic microvariation in catalan. The microvariaciÓ.cat initiative
    Revue Roumaine De Linguistique, 2018
  • Grammaticalization across Romance languages and the pace of language change: The position of Catalan
    Béatrice Lamiroy, Anna Pineda
    Lingvisticae Investigationes, 2017
  • Differential Indirect Object Marking in Romance (and how to get rid of it)
    Revue Roumaine De Linguistique, 2017
  • ASinEs: Prolegomena to an atlas of syntactic variation in Spanish
    Linguamatica, 2015
  • What lies behind dative/accusative alternations in Romance
    Anna Pineda
    Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2014
  • Double object constructions in Spanish (and Catalan) revisited
    Anna Pineda
    Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2013

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • On hybrid verb classes: The view from meal verbs in Romance
    J Ausensi, A Pineda
    Acta Linguistica Academica 72 (2), 295-318 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Arbitrary SE and accusative clitics in Catalan: Resolving (mis) matches in the syntax
    M Irimia, A Pineda
    Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 11 (7), 1-37 , 2025
    2025
  • Auxiliary selection across Catalan dialects: an overview
    A Pineda, S Salvà, E Cremades
    Borealis–An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 13 (2), 127-182 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 4
  • A micro-comparative approach to DOM in language-contact environments
    A Odria, A Pineda, MA Irima, A Mardale
    Differential Object Marking in Romance: Towards microvariation, 315-347 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 2
  • Towards a historical dialectal approach to Differential Object Marking in Catalan
    A Pineda
    Journal of Historical Syntax 7 (5), 1-33 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • Epilogue: Moving Forward with Linguistics in Schools
    A Corr, AP i Cirera
    Theoretical linguistics in the pre-university classroom 257, 281-288 , 2023
    2023
  • Theoretical linguistics in the pre-university classroom
    A Corr, A Pineda
    Liverpool University Press , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 3
  • Theoretical linguistics in non-university education
    A Corr, A Pineda
    Theoretical linguistics in the pre-university classroom, 3-42 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 3
  • A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire –infinitive causative: New evidence from Catalan
    A Pineda, M Sheehan
    Syntax 26 (2), 183-222 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 10
  • Presentació del monogràfic «El complement directe preposicional: una visió panromànica»
    A Pineda
    Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia, 145-148 , 2023
    2023
  • L’acusatiu preposicional en català: d’on venim i cap a on anem?
    A Pineda
    Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia, 149-182 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 10
  • L’acusatiu preposicional en català: Història, controvèrsia i ús
    A Pineda
    Llengua i literatura, 113-135 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 4
  • Estudi de corpus diacrònic de la inestabilitat (transitiu/intransitiu) dels verbs catalans
    A Pineda
    2023
  • When restructuring and clause union meet in Catalan and beyond
    A Pineda, M Sheehan
    Catalan journal of linguistics 21, 109-128 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 5
  • ¿ El complemento indirecto, un desconocido? Dativos argumentales y no argumentales
    N Martín, A Pineda
    ReGroc: revista de gramática orientada a las competencias 5 (1), 53-79 , 2022
    2022
  • Jorge Vega Vilanova: Past Participle Agreement. A study on the grammaticalization of formal features
    A Pineda
    Folia Linguistica 56 (s43-s1), 329-337 , 2022
    2022
  • Affectedness-driven phenomena? A short overview
    A Pineda
    Universitäts-und Stadtbibliothek Köln , 2022
    2022
  • Argument structure and argument realization
    V Acedo-Matellán, J Mateu, A Pineda
    Cambridge University Press , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 3
  • Differential object marking in Catalan: Descriptive and theoretical aspects
    MA Irimia, A Pineda
    Linguistic Variation 22 (2), 325-385 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 6
  • Theoretical linguistics in pre-university education
    A Pineda
    Theoretical linguistics in the pre-university classroom , 2022
    2022

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Les fronteres de la (in) transitivitat. Estudi dels aplicatius en llengües romàniques i basc [published and revised version of the PhD dissertation
    A Pineda
    Institut d'Estudis Món Juïc , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 65
  • Double object constructions and dative/accusative alternations in Spanish and Catalan: A unified account
    A Pineda
    Borealis–An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 2 (1), 57-115 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 44
  • From dative to accusative. An ongoing syntactic change in Romance
    A Pineda
    Probus 32 (1), 129-173 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 37
  • Double object constructions in Spanish (and Catalan) revisited
    A Pineda
    Romance languages and linguistic theory 2011, 193-216 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 32
  • Double‐Object Constructions in Romance: The Common Denominator
    A Pineda
    Syntax 23 (3), 203-240 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 29
  • Les fronteres de la (in) transitivitat
    A Pineda
    Estudi dels aplicatius en llengües romàniques i basc 6 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 26
  • Differential object marking and Scales: Insights from diachrony
    MA Irimia, A Pineda
    Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 4, 57: 1-15 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 21
  • The development of DOM in the diachrony of Catalan:(dis) similarities with respect to Spanish
    A Pineda
    De Gruyter , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 20
  • What lies behind dative/accusative alternations in Romance
    A Pineda
    Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 123-40 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 20
  • Differential Indirect Object Marking in Romance (and how to get rid of it)
    A Pineda, C Royo
    Revue Romane de Linguistique 62 (4), 445–462 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 19
  • Transitividad y afectación en el entorno lingüístico romance y eusquérico
    AP i Cirera
    Estudios sobre variación sintáctica peninsular, 2012, 31-74 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 18
  • Hybrid intransitives in Basque
    A Pineda, A Berro
    Glossa a journal of general linguistics 5 (1), 22 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 16
  • Light verb constructions in Basque and Romance
    V Acedo-Matellán, A Pineda
    Basque and Romance, 176-220 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 16
  • Acostament al marcatge diferencial d’objecte als inicis del català modern
    A Pineda
    eHumanista/IVITRA 14, 570-596 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 16
  • Grammaticalization across Romance languages and the pace of language change The position of Catalan
    B Lamiroy, A Pineda
    2017
    Citations: 15
  • El marcatge diferencial d’objecte en català (i Fabra)
    A Pineda
    De llengua i societat: De la proposta fabriana a la reforma normativa de l … , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 12
  • Romance double object constructions and transitivity alternations
    A Pineda
    Proceedings of ConSOLE XX, 185-211 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 12
  • A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire –infinitive causative: New evidence from Catalan
    A Pineda, M Sheehan
    Syntax 26 (2), 183-222 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 10
  • L’acusatiu preposicional en català: d’on venim i cap a on anem?
    A Pineda
    Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia, 149-182 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 10
  • Li-per-els [i] o la despronominalització del clític datiu en català: un fenomen incipient
    A Pineda
    Quaderns de Filologia-Estudis lingüístics 23, 247-281 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 10