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.
Carmen Mellado Blanco
List of John Benjamins publications in which Carmen Mellado Blanco is involved.
Title
Articles
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
2023 Chapter 5. From idioms to semi-schematic constructions and vice versa: The case of [
a un paso de
X] Constructions in Spanish, Hennecke, Inga and Evelyn Wiesinger (eds.), pp. 103–128 | Chapter
Taking as a starting point the spatial construction [SUB V
estar
a un X{unit_of_measurement}
de-
PP{place_a}]: ‘the distance to PLACE A is exactly X{unit_of_measurement}’ and its metaphorical extensions within the… read more
2018 El contorno lexicográfico en Fraseología Fraseología, Diatopía y Traducción / Phraseology, Diatopic Variation and Translation, Mogorrón Huerta, Pedro and Antonio Albaladejo-Martínez (eds.), pp. 72–93 | Chapter