Nuria Calvo Cortés
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nuria Calvo Cortés plays a role.
2024 Filled-in petition forms and hand-drafted petitions to the Foundling Hospital: A comparison and the influence of letter-writing manuals Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types, Caon, Luisella, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck (eds.), pp. 198–224 | Chapter
The present study compares filled-in petition forms with hand-drafted petitions addressed to the Foundling Hospital between 1759 and 1815. The focus of the analysis is on the similarities and/or differences between the two types and how they compare to the petition models presented in the… read more
2020 Women writers in the 18th century: The semantics of motion in their choice of perfect auxiliaries Late Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 203–218 | Chapter
The present study analyses perfect auxiliaries combined with a set of verbs that semantically encode an idea of motion, either physical or metaphorical (arrived, become, come, departed, entered, fallen, gone, got, grown, passed, returned and run) in a corpus of eight novels written by four women in… read more
2020 Variations from letter-writing manuals: Humble petitions signed by women in Late Modern London Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 183–212 | Chapter
The present study analyses two sets of 25 petitions each. They were signed by different women who possibly belonged to lower social ranks, and they were addressed to the governors of the Foundling Hospital and the Bank of England. These were most probably men who occupied high positions in… read more
2019 Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax, Claridge, Claudia and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 175–198 | Chapter
The present study focuses on the analysis of the choice of either be or have in combination with the past participles of eleven motion verbs (arrive, become, come, enter, fall, go, get, grow, pass, return and run) to form perfective structures in Jane Austen’s letters and novels. She has previously… read more