Constructions in Spanish
Edited by Inga Hennecke and Evelyn Wiesinger
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 34] 2023. vi, 409 pp.
Evelyn Wiesinger
List of John Benjamins publications for which Evelyn Wiesinger plays a role.
Title
Subjects Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 Chapter 1. Construction Grammar meets Hispanic linguistics Constructions in Spanish, Hennecke, Inga and Evelyn Wiesinger (eds.), pp. 2–26 | Chapter
This chapter offers an introduction to the topic and to the individual contributions of the present volume. First, it presents an evaluation of the general potential of combining (usage-based and cognitively oriented) Construction Grammar with Hispanic (and Romance) linguistics. Further, it aims… read more
2023 Chapter 12. On the role of verb-particle constructions in Old Spanish: Onomasiological networks and typological change Constructions in Spanish, Hennecke, Inga and Evelyn Wiesinger (eds.), pp. 309–339 | Chapter
The present contribution investigates verb-particle constructions formed with atras ‘back(wards)’ in Old Spanish, against the background of the typological change from (mostly) satellite-framed patterns in Latin to the predominantly verb-framed strategies in the Romance languages. The study… read more
2021 The Spanish verb-particle construction [V para atrás]: Disentangling constructional contact and change Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 139–187 | Chapter
Spanish verb-particle constructions such as llamar para atrás ‘call back’ or ir para atrás ‘go back’, which are found among bilingual speakers in the USA, have been attributed either to structural and/or semantic contact with English or to merely language-internal evolutions. In the present… read more
2019 Non-French lexicon in Guianese French Creole: A sociohistorical and linguistic study on the African contribution Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34:1, pp. 3–48 | Article
Guianese French Creole (GFC) is one of the least studied French Creoles, which is especially true with respect to its non-French-related input. Combining sociohistorical, demographic and linguistic data, this contribution gives a first lexico-etymological account of the GFC lexicon of non-French… read more