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Valeria Belloro's monograph is an essential contribution to understanding the construction of clitic doubling and the conditions that govern its use in various different forms of spoken Spanish. Aimed at lecturers in linguistics, and especially those who work in syntax, semantics and pragmatics, this book is a meticulous exploration of the anaphora between accusative and dative clitics and non-personal pronoun lexical objects. [...] In little more than 150 pages and with over 100 examples, this work condenses and links a complex (but absolutely necessary) theoretical argument in a masterful way with carefully analysed and described empirical data. The result is an indispensable work and an essential reference for scholars of language work, which show that syntax, semantics, pragmatics and cognition all serve speakers' communicative exchanges. Sara Gomez Seibane Universidad de la Rioja Revista de Filologia Espanola, 96 (2016) To the Right of the Verb has the potential to be of interest to linguists of various persuasions. The way in which it integrates theoretical perspectives with the corpus of the subject in question is certainly exemplary, highlighting points of contact to combine both novel and traditional approaches. For this reason, and maybe more relevantly for those who study other phenomena and/or other languages, it can also be read as a proposed research methodology that bridges the perhaps too pronounced gap between functionalism and formalism. Although this is a frequent appeal from various areas of the discipline nowadays, it is rare to find concrete research that puts it so clearly, systematically and - above all - successfully into practice. A book with such characteristics is always good news. Martin Califa Signo y Sena, 30:2 (2016)

Valeria Belloro's monograph is an essential contribution to understanding the construction of clitic doubling and the conditions that govern its use in various different forms of spoken Spanish. Aimed at lecturers in linguistics, and especially those who work in syntax, semantics and pragmatics, this book is a meticulous exploration of the anaphora between accusative and dative clitics and non-personal pronoun lexical objects. [...] In little more than 150 pages and with over 100 examples, this work condenses and links a complex (but absolutely necessary) theoretical argument in a masterful way with carefully analysed and described empirical data. The result is an indispensable work and an essential reference for scholars of language work, which show that syntax, semantics, pragmatics and cognition all serve speakers' communicative exchanges. Sara Gomez Seibane Universidad de la Rioja Revista de Filologia Espanola, 96 (2016)

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Dr. Valeria A. Belloro obtained her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has lectured at Columbia University, the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, among other institutions, and is currently a full-time professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Mexico. She specializes in the study of the syntax-pragmatics interface and has published articles examining this topic in Spanish, as well as some of the indigenous languages of Mexico.

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