Constructions in Spanish
Edited by Inga Hennecke and Evelyn Wiesinger
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 34] 2023. vi, 409 pp.
Inga Hennecke
List of John Benjamins publications for which Inga Hennecke plays a role.
Title
Subjects Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 Chapter 1. Construction Grammar meets
This chapter offers an introduction to the topic and to the individual contributions of the present volume. First, it presents an evaluation of the general potential of combining (usage-based and cognitively oriented) Construction Grammar with Hispanic (and Romance) linguistics. Further, it aims… read more
2022 Between placeholder and filler: Degrees of prosodic prominence of French machin and truc Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives, Beeching, Kate, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen and Anna Piasecki (eds.), pp. 297–323 | Article
French truc and machin (‘thing’) can function as placeholders, fillers or in general extender constructions. The aim of our paper is to investigate whether the prosodic characteristics of these three different uses may give a clue as to their respective status. For our analysis, we extracted 112… read more
2021 Romance N Prep N constructions in visual word recognition: An eye-tracking study of French, Spanish and Portuguese The Mental Lexicon 16:1, pp. 98–132 | Article
N Prep N constructions such as Sp. bicicleta de montaña ‘mountain bike’ are very productive and frequent in Romance languages. They commonly have been classified as syntagmatic compounds that show no orthographic union and exhibit an internal structure that resembles free syntactic structures,… read more