Dissertation
Ranero, Rodrigo. 2021. Identity Conditions on Ellipsis. PhD Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park. [link]
Works in prep
Ranero, Rodrigo. In prep. “Voice and ellipsis revisited”. (see Chapter 2 of dissertation)
Ranero, Rodrigo & Paulina Lyskawa. In prep. “True progressive harmony exists”. [link]
Ranero, Rodrigo, Justin Royer & Carol Rose Little. In prep. “Null Complement Anaphora cannot involve transitivity alternations: A novel argument from Mayan”. [link] (note that first version only has authors Ranero & Royer)
Articles in journals / edited volumes
Royer, Justin, Cristina Buenrostro & Rodrigo Ranero. Under review. “Wh-questions and predication in Mayan”. [link]
Ranero, Rodrigo. Under review. “VP-Ellipsis in Spanish”. In L. Stigliano & A. Saab (eds.), Ellipsis in Romance Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Justin Royer, Rodrigo Ranero, Pedro Federico Felipe Gómez, & Diego Neper Josué López García. Accepted. “El cuento de kokolom/chi’jolom: Bosquejo gramatical y comparación dialectal del idioma Chuj”. Tlalocan. [link]
Ranero, Rodrigo, Gregory Scontras & Maria Polinsky. 2025. “Weak Crossover in Spanish Relative Clauses”. Probus. [link]
Ranero, Rodrigo. 2025. “Gender and ellipsis revisited”. In Syntax in Uncharted Territories: Essays in Honor of Maria Polinsky. [link]
Ranero, Rodrigo & Justin Royer. 2024. “Deep and Surface Anaphora: A Mayan Reappraisal”. In the Proceedings of NELS 54. [link]
Ranero, Rodrigo. 2023. “Voice mismatches in Kaqchikel (Mayan) sluicing”. In Proceedings of Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas 24, D. K. E. Reisinger and Hannah Green (eds.). Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL. [link]
Lyskawa, Paulina & Rodrigo Ranero. 2022. “Optional agreement as successful/failed AGREE: evidence from Santiago Tz’utujil (Mayan)”. Linguistic Variation. [link to draft] [pdf]
Lyskawa, Paulina & Rodrigo Ranero. 2021. “Sibilant Harmony in Santiago Tz’utujil (Mayan)”. In the Proceedings of the 2021 Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4968
Fried, Marisa, Paulina Lyskawa & Rodrigo Ranero. 2021. “Agreement in K’iche’ Mayan: Reflections on Microvariation and Acquisition”. Proceedings of 44th Penn Linguistics Conference. [link]
Mendes, Gesoel & Rodrigo Ranero. 2021. “Chain Reduction via Substitution: Evidence from Mayan”. Glossa : a journal of general linguistics 6(1): 10. 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1087.
Levin, Theodore, Paulina Lyskawa & Rodrigo Ranero. 2020. “Optional agreement in Santiago Tz’utujil Mayan is syntactic”. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft , Volume 39, Issue 3, Pages 329–355.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2020-2018
Ranero, Rodrigo. 2019. “Deriving an Object Dislocation Asymmetry in Luganda”. In E. Clem, P. Jenks, and H. Sande eds., Theory and Description in African Linguistics: Selected Proceedings of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Berlin: Language Science Press.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3367189
Landman, Meredith & Rodrigo Ranero. 2018. “Focus Marking in Kuria”. In J. Kandybowicz, T. Major, H. Torrence, and P. T. Duncan eds., African Linguistics on the Prairie: Selected papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 393-412. Berlin: Language Science Press.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1251754
Douglas, Jamie, Rodrigo Ranero & Michelle Sheehan. 2017. “Two Types of Syntactic Ergativity in Mayan”. In M. Y. Erlewine ed., Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XI: Volume 2, 41-56. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. [link]
Diercks, Michael, Rodrigo Ranero, and Mary Paster. 2015. “Evidence for a Clitic Analysis of Object Markers in Kuria”. In R. Kramer, E. Zsiga, and O. Boyer eds., Selected Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 52-70. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [link]
Pedagogical materials / documentation
Montenegro Hernández, Aleyda Margarita, Rodrigo Ranero, COPXIG & Cooperativa el Recuerdo. 2024.”‘Alyamalh Xinka – Wirimalh Xinka—Módulo III: Sintaxis Básica” (“Let’s teach and speak Xinka—Module III: Basic Syntax”). 78 pp.
Estrada, Yolanda, Rodrigo Ranero & Filiberto Patal Majzul. 2018. “Kaqchikel ritual language: Four ceremonies by the Waqxaqi’ B’atz’ collective”. Video/audio recordings and transcriptions (~6 transcribed hours; archived by the Firebird Foundation).
Multiple authors. 2014. Talking Dictionaries of Guatemala. Living Tongues & ALMG. [link]
Ranero, Rodrigo & Consejo del Pueblo Xinka de Guatemala (COPXIG). 2013. ‘Alyamalh Xinka – Wirimalh Xinka—Módulo II: Morfología. Ciudad de Guatemala: Editorial Cholsamaj. 124 pages.
Ranero, Rodrigo & Consejo del Pueblo Xinka de Guatemala (COPXIG). 2012. ‘Alyamalh Xinka – Wirimalh Xinka—Módulo I: Guía de Ortografía y Pronunciación. Ciudad de Guatemala: Editorial Cholsamaj. 52 pages.
Book Reviews
Ranero, Rodrigo. 2018. “Review of Eguren, Luis, Olga Fernández-Soriano, and Amaya Mendikoetxea eds. (2016) Rethinking Parameters”. Linguistic Variation. [pdf]
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