Research Interests
Syntactic Theory
Comparative Syntax
Romance Linguistics
Inner Aspect
Education
2006 Ph.D. Stony Brook University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Edited Books
Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2018.
Ionin, Tania. Formal approaches to Slavic Linguistics 26: The Urbana-Champaign Meeting 2017. Michigan Slavic Publications, 2019.
Books
The syntactic nature of inner aspect: A minimalist perspective. John Benjamins, 2008.
Journal Articles
MacDonald, Jonathan E. "Passive se in Romanian and Spanish: a linguistic cycle." Journal of Linguistics, vol. 54, 2018.
"An implicit projected argument in Spanish impersonal and passive se constructions.." Syntax, vol. 20, no. 4, 2017.
"Spanish Aspectual se as an indirect object reflexive: evidence from (a)telicity, bare nouns and leísta PCC repairs." Probus, vol. 29, no. 1, 2017.
MacDonald, Jonathan E, and Barbara Ürögdi. "Against stativizing negation, expletive negation and NPI-until." Acta Lingüística Hungarica, vol. 58, no. 3, 2011.
MacDonald, Jonathan E. "The phrase structure of phase verbs: An initial contrastive analysis of English and Russian." Acta Lingüística Hungarica, vol. 58, no. 3, 2011.
"Syntax and Aspect: The aspectual influence of the noun phrase: (a)telicity, (a)symmetry, incrementality and universality." Language and Linguistics Compass, 2010.
"Domain of aspectual interpretation." Linguistic Inquiry, 2008.
Book Contributions
"Extended projections of V: aspect." Contemporary Linguistic Parameters, 2015.
"A case of multiple Agree: Accusative, not Dative se." Romance Linguistics 2012. Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, 2015.
de Cuba, Carlos, and Jonathan E. MacDonald. "Referentiality in Spanish CPs." Agreement, Information Structure and the CP, edited by V. Camacho-Toboada, edited by A. Jiménez-Fernández. John Benjamins, 2012.
Brucart, José María, and Jonathan E. MacDonald. "Empty Categories and Ellipsis." The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, edited by J.I. Hualde, compiled by A. Olarrea, compiled by E. O'Rourke. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
"Minimalist variability in the verb phrase." Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, John Benjamins, 2010.
MacDonald, Jonathan E, and Angelina Markova. "Bulgarian and Variation in Inner Aspect." Current Issues in Formal Slavic Linguistics, Peter Lang, 2010.
MacDonald, Jonathan E, and Susana Huidobro. "The Lack of Spanish Non-Argumental Clitic Doubling." Selected Proceedings of the 12th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Cascadilla, 2010.
Recent Publications
Macdonald, J. E., & Maddox, M. L. (2018). Passive se in Romanian and Spanish: A subject cycle. Journal of Linguistics, 54(2), 389-427. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002222671700038X
MacDonald, J. E. (2018). Introduction. In J. E. MacDonald (Ed.), Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015 (pp. 1-7). (Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics; Vol. 15). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.15.01mac
MacDonald, J. E. (2017). An Implicit Projected Argument in Spanish Impersonal- and Passive-Se Constructions. Syntax, 20(4), 353-383. https://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12146
MacDonald, J. E. (2017). Spanish aspectual se as an indirect object reflexive: The import of atelicity, bare nouns, and leísta PCC repairs. Probus, 29(1), 73-117. https://doi.org/10.1515/probus-2015-0009
MacDonald, J. E. (2015). A case of Multiple Agree: Accusative, not dative, se. In J. Smith, & T. Ihsane (Eds.), Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) (pp. 275-288)