Comparing Constructions in Romance and Germanic Languages
Edited by Carmen Mellado Blanco and Pedro Ivorra Ordines
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 26:2 (2026) ca. 150 pp.
Pedro Ivorra Ordines
List of John Benjamins publications in which Pedro Ivorra Ordines is involved.
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2026 Introduction: Comparing constructions in Germanic and Romance languages Comparing Constructions in Romance and Germanic Languages, Mellado Blanco, Carmen and Pedro Ivorra Ordines (eds.), pp. 171–181 | Introduction
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in applying Construction Grammar to cross-linguistic comparison. Traditionally, Construction Grammar has been extensively applied to English, to the detriment of other languages, especially Romance languages such as Spanish, Italian, and French,… read more
2025 Vete a freír cristales: The interplay of convention and innovation in a constructional idiom of rejection in Spanish Beyond Corpus Data — Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, Granvik, Anton, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä and Eveliina Mäntylä (eds.), pp. 596–633 | Article
The constructional idiom [IRSE/ANDAR(SE)[imperative]
a CLAUSE[infinitive]] (e.g., Vete a freír espárragos, lit. ‘go to fry asparagus’; Iros a tomar viento, lit. ‘go to get wind’) is commonly used in Spanish to convey the speaker’s strong rejection, and is a hallmark of colloquial… read more