Violeta Demonte

Violeta Demonte (born 27 June 1944 in Paraná, Argentina) is a linguist known for her work on the grammar of Spanish. She is emeritus professor of Spanish language at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Education and career Demonte studied at the University of Buenos Aires, at Indiana University, and at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where she received her doctorate in 1975; her doctoral supervisor was Fernando Lázaro Carreter.

Honours and awards In 2007 Demonte was appointed Commander with Plaque of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise. In 2015 she was elected corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy. In 2023 she was elected ordinary member of the Academia Europaea.

Selected publications Demonte, Violeta. 1989. Teoría sintáctica: de las estructuras a la rección (Syntactic theory: from structures to government). Madrid: Synthesis. Demonte, Violeta. 1995. Dative alternation in Spanish. Probus 7, 5–30. Bosque, Ignacio, & Violeta Demonte. 1999. Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española (Descriptive grammar of the Spanish language). 3 volumes. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe. Bosque, Ignacio, & Violeta Demonte. 2009. Nueva gramática de la lengua española (New grammar of the Spanish language). Madrid: Espasa-Calpe. Demonte, Violeta, & Olga Fernández-Soriano. 2009. Force and finiteness in the Spanish complementizer system. Probus 21, 23–49.