Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen plays a role.
Articles
2020 Something seems to have changed: Diachronic evidence for the semantic shift of parecer + infinitive Changes in Meaning and Function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish, Fernández Jaén, Jorge and Herminia Provencio Garrigós (eds.), pp. 195–220 | Chapter
This paper examines the claim that when a full verb is grammaticalized and becomes an auxiliary it is subjected to a process of desemanticization or semantic bleaching. For this matter, the Spanish periphrasis parecer + infinitive (‘to seem’) is analysed on the basis of the three semantic-pragmatic… read more
2018 Changing frequencies in a constructional landscape: The case of two epistemic constructions in Spanish Diachronica 35:2, pp. 210–237 | Article
Many studies on Spanish verbal periphrases either discuss the general features of the syntactic category or analyse the semantic and functional differences between specific members of that category. The present paper focusses on one particular periphrasis, parecer “to seem” + infinitive but, at… read more