Mercedes Montes de Oca Vega
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mercedes Montes de Oca Vega plays a role.
Articles
2017 Chapter 9. The impact of language contact in Nahuatl couplets Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 187–208 | Chapter
In the pre-Hispanic period, couplets were widely used in ritual or ceremonial contexts, and they prevailed in the contact period through their use in evangelical texts to convey a more indigenous character to evangelization materials. Nahuatl couplets were recreated to achieve a better reception… read more
2012 Are Nahuatl riddles endangered conceptualizations? Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 123–144 | Article
This paper offers a comparative analysis of two corpora of shared riddles from the sixteenth century and present day Nahuatl. Riddles are a form of speech play practiced in Nahua communities since pre-Hispanic times. Conceptualization behind riddles has been preserved, has changed and has also been… read more