Constructional Approach(es) to Discourse-Level Phenomena: Theoretical challenges and empirical advances
Edited by Renata Enghels and María Sol Sansiñena
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 13:1 (2021) v, 191 pp.
Renata Enghels
List of John Benjamins publications for which Renata Enghels plays a role.
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Current Perspectives on Codeswitching
Edited by Emma Vanden Wyngaerd, Renata Enghels, Mena B. Lafkioui and Marie Steffens
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 35] 2021. v, 213 pp.
Subjects Theoretical linguistics
The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research
Edited by Timothy Colleman, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 34] 2020. vii, 382 pp.
Subjects Theoretical linguistics
Extending the notion of near-synonymy: Studies in morphological, syntactic and pragmatic equivalence
Edited by Renata Enghels
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 18:1 (2018) v, 153 pp.
Subjects Comparative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Chapter 2. The apparent-time construct as a proxy to spoken conversational data in the 20th century: A Spanish case study Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador and Shima Salameh Jiménez (eds.), pp. 63–94 | Chapter
The 20th century is characterized by important changes in the sociohistorical context of Spain, which have led to the steady process of colloquialization of Spanish, in both spoken and written language. Still, these major developments contrast sharply with the scarcity of oral conversational… read more
2022 The persuasive potential of metaphor when framing Mexican migrants and migration: A comparative study of the US written press Metaphor and the Social World 12:2, pp. 204–223 | Article
Research into the persuasive quality of metaphor has a long standing tradition, with the topic of migration embodying one of its pet discourse genres. Yet, only few studies have recognized the existence of identical metaphors occurring across the ideological divide. The present paper explores… read more
2021 La variación lingüística del vocativo en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño Revue Romane 56:2, pp. 177–204 | Article
This paper investigates the formal and functional variation of the vocative in contemporary Spanish teenage talk. For this purpose, all vocative occurrences found in conversations between teenagers in the Corpus Oral de Madrid-2016 are analyzed. The vocative is known to be highly productive in… read more
2021 Discourse-level phenomena in construction grammars Constructional Approach(es) to Discourse-Level Phenomena: Theoretical challenges and empirical advances, Enghels, Renata and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 3–20 | Introduction
2021 Introduction: Current perspectives on codeswitching Current Perspectives on Codeswitching, Vanden Wyngaerd, Emma, Renata Enghels, Mena B. Lafkioui and Marie Steffens (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Introduction
2021 Diminutive constructions inbilingual speech: A case study of Spanish-English codeswitching Current Perspectives on Codeswitching, Vanden Wyngaerd, Emma, Renata Enghels, Mena B. Lafkioui and Marie Steffens (eds.), pp. 183–213 | Article
The diminutive construction is formed and used differently in Spanish and English, which leads us to the question how this construction with different morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic characteristics in the input languages is governed in Spanish-English bilingual and codeswitching speech.… read more
2020 Introduction: The wealth and breadth of construction-based research The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Introduction
2020 Causative and inchoative constructions with poner and meter (‘to put’) in Spanish: A diachronic constructional approach Changes in Meaning and Function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish, Fernández Jaén, Jorge and Herminia Provencio Garrigós (eds.), pp. 21–46 | Chapter
This article documents the historical evolution of the causative and inchoative constructions with the put verbs poner and meter in Spanish. The aim of this case study is to determine how both constructions developed out of the more general abstract caused-motion schema. The analysis is based on a… read more
2018 Extending the notion of near-synonymy: Studies in morphological, syntactic and pragmatic equivalence Extending the notion of near-synonymy: Studies in morphological, syntactic and pragmatic equivalence, Enghels, Renata (ed.), pp. 1–5 | Introduction
2018 Evaluating grammaticalization and constructional accounts: The development of the inchoative construction with put verbs in Spanish Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar, Coussé, Evie, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson (eds.), pp. 107–133 | Chapter
This article explores the historical development of the inchoative construction in Spanish with the put verbs poner and meter filling the auxiliary verb slot. Previous studies have focused mainly on the syntactic and semantic processes through which full lexical put verbs come to fulfil an… read more
2018 Sobre la naturaleza de los corpus y la comparabilidad de resultados en lingüística histórica: Estudio de caso del marcador pragmático sabes Spanish in Context 15:3, pp. 465–489 | Article
Este artículo contribuye a la discusión sobre el valor de los datos empíricos en el campo de la lingüística histórica. En la literatura se han discutido ampliamente los problemas metodológicos derivados del hecho de que los análisis diacrónicos estén basados casi exclusivamente en fuentes… read more
2016 La polisemia de los verbos de colocación: Descripción sincrónica y evolución diacrónica de los cuasi-sinónimos poner / meter y poser / mettre Revue Romane 51:1, pp. 70–94 | Article
This article compares the syntax and semantics of the locative verbs poner and meter in Spanish with their French cognates poser and mettre. In some contexts these lexemes are clearly interchangeable, whereas in others they are not. The purpose of this study is double. First, based on a large… read more
2016 Measuring the degree of near-synonymy of Spanish verbs of putting: A multivariate corpus analysis of poner and meter Functions of Language 23:3, pp. 279–304 | Article
The present article presents a corpus-based study of two near-synonymous verbs in Spanish: the locative verbs of putting poner and meter. Starting from the universal principle of linguistic economy, the paper aims to empirically identify potentially influencing variables that determine the native… read more
2015 Expressing the source of dispossession acts in French and Spanish: A contrastive study of voler and robar Contrasting contrastive approaches, Defrancq, Bart (ed.), pp. 102–124 | Article
2014 Chapter 3. Nominalizations of Spanish perception verbs at the syntax–semantics interface Noun Valency, Spevak, Olga (ed.), pp. 61–88 | Article
Most studies on nominalization focus on nouns derived from action verbs and pay little attention to other semantic types. This article aims to fill this gap by studying a group of perception nominalizations in Spanish. It is well known that the semantic distinctions that cross the field of… read more
2014 Contrasting the syntax and semantics of negative causation: The apparent similarity of Spanish and Portuguese Languages in Contrast 14:2, pp. 278–305 | Article
The main objective of this study is to compare the structure of the factitive construction expressing negative causation with dejar/deixar (“to let”) in Ibero-Romance languages. It is generally accepted that Portuguese and Spanish exhibit a high degree of syntactic equivalence. However, the nature… read more
2012 Acusativo y dativo en la construcción factitiva: Hacia un replanteamiento en términos multifactoriales Revue Romane 47:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
Most investigations of Romance factitive constructions study the causative verb hacer (‘to make’) and pay little attention to related verbs such as dejar (‘to let’). This article seeks to fill up this gap by contrasting the syntax of positive and negative causation, and particularly focuses on the… read more
2009 La construcción infinitiva tras verbos de percepción visual y auditiva: Un análisis comparativo entre el portugués y el español Revue Romane 44:1, pp. 25–46 | Article
In Spanish and Portuguese the direct perception of an event is expressed by infinitival constructions such as Vi a los niños correr and Vi os meninos correr(em) (“I saw the children run”). This article focuses on the factors that determine the syntactic markings of the perceived participant NP2 as… read more