Zeltia Blanco-Suárez
List of John Benjamins publications for which Zeltia Blanco-Suárez plays a role.
2022 Review of Napoli & Ravetto (2017): Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, Diachronic and Cross-linguistic Perspectives Journal of Historical Pragmatics 23:2, pp. 353–362 | Review
This is a review of the volume Exploring intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, edited by Maria Napoli and Miriam Ravetto. read more
2021 Foreign language motivation in primary education students: The effects of additional CLIL and gender Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 9:1, pp. 58–84 | Article
This article explores the effects of the type of instruction (Content and language integrated learning, CLIL, vs. non-CLIL) and gender upon foreign language motivation in Primary Education learners in northern Spain. A total of 252 students with ages ranging from 9–12 completed a questionnaire… read more
2020 Two sides of the same coin? Tracking the history of the intensifiers deadly and mortal Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English, Rautionaho, Paula, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola (eds.), pp. 169–198 | Chapter
This chapter presents a corpus-based study on the origin and development of two death-related intensifiers: the adjectives and adverbs deadly and mortal. The historical sources consulted reveal that these forms have progressively adopted more general meanings, that is, they have come to be… read more
2017 The rise and development of parenthetical needless to say : An assumed evidential strategy The Rise and Development of Evidential and Epistemic Markers, Cruschina, Silvio and Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.), pp. 134–159 | Article
The article traces the diachronic development of the assumed evidential needless to say. This parenthetical expression allows the speaker to make certain assertions regarding the obviousness of what s/he is about to say, thus serving as an evidential strategy that marks the information conveyed… read more
2014 Ma daddy wis dead chuffed: On the dialectal distribution of the intensifier dead in Contemporary English Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns, Davidse, Kristin, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 151–171 | Article
The present paper aims to shed light on the dialectal distribution of the intensifier dead in four varieties of Present-Day English: American, British, Irish and Scottish English. For this purpose, data are drawn from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, the Brigham Young University-British… read more
2013 The competition between the intensifiers dead and deadly: Some diachronic considerations Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis, Hasselgård, Hilde, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (eds.), pp. 71–90 | Article
The present paper aims at shedding light on the diachronic evolution of two death-related intensifiers, dead and deadly, showing their subjectification and grammaticalisation over time. Data from the Middle English Dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary, and three electronic databases (Early… read more