Jessi Elana Aaron - Publications

Papers in refereed journals

Getting closer: Codification of subjective semantic prosody in Spanish continuative aspect. Linguistics. Forthcoming. Co-author: Maria Fionda.

Pushing the envelope: Looking beyond the variable context. Language Variation and Change 22:1.1-36. 2010.

An Awkward Companion: Disability and the Semantic Landscape of English lame. Journal of English Linguistics. 2010.

Coming back to life: From indicator to stereotype and a strange story of frequency. Journal of Sociolinguistics 13:4.1-27. 2009.

El futuro epistémico y la variación: gramaticalización y expresión de la futuridad desde 1600. Moenia 13.253-274. 2007.

Quantitative measures of subjectification: a variationist study of Spanish salir(se). Cognitive Linguistics 16:4.607-634. 2005. Co-author: Rena Torres Cacoullos.

The gendered use of salirse in Mexican Spanish: Si me salía yo con las amigas, se enojaba. Language in Society 33:4.585-607. 2004.

'So respetamos un tradición del uno al otro': So and entonces in New Mexican bilingual discourse. Spanish in Context 1:2.161-179. 2004.

Bare English-origin nouns in Spanish: rates, constraints, and discourse functions. Language Variation and Change 15:3.289-328. 2003. Co-author: Rena Torres Cacoullos.

Chapters in books

Quantitative evidence for contact-induced accommodation: Shifts in /s/ reduction patterns in Salvadoran Spanish in Houston. Spanish in contact: Policy, social, and linguistic inquiries, ed. Richard Cameron and Kim Potowski, 327-341. John Benjamins. 2007. Co-author: José Esteban Hernández.

Papers in refereed conference proceedings

Me voy a tener que ir yendo: A corpus-based study of the grammaticalization of the ir a + INF construction in Spanish. Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. Nuria Sagarra and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio. Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 2006.

Te sales: puede cuantificarse la subjetivización? Memorias del VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Tomo 2, ed. Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani, 43-63. Hermosillo, Sonora:

UniSon, 2006. Co-author: Rena Torres Cacoullos.

Determiner variation with English-origin nouns in New Mexican Spanish: Borrowing bare forms. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) 9.2: Selected Papers from NWAV. 2003. Co-author: Rena Torres Cacoullos.

Me salí a caminar: Pronominal constructions with intransitive motion verbs in northern New Mexican Spanish. Selected Proceedings of the First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. Lofti Sayahi, 123-133. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 2003.

Poetry

"Marigolds"; "Desert winter." Feminism Now! University of New Mexico Feminism in Print Collective. 2006.

"Hummingbird" Reflections. Wordshop Publications (Winter 2002).