Ruth María Lavale-Ortiz
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ruth María Lavale-Ortiz plays a role.
2020 A cognitive approach to the grammaticalization of the epistemic marker fijo Changes in Meaning and Function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish, Fernández Jaén, Jorge and Herminia Provencio Garrigós (eds.), pp. 117–158 | Chapter
The present paper has as its aim to show the semantic evolution of the form fijo through which it has acquired increasingly pragmatic uses and functions until it became an epistemic marker. Within this grammaticalization process, the cognitive procedures of metaphor and metonymy, as well as the… read more
2016 Hacia una revisión del concepto de neologismo aplicado a los verbos denominales aparecidos en la prensa española Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 29:1, pp. 165–190 | Article
La formación de verbos procedentes de sustantivos en español es una herramienta muy rentable y así lo demuestran las nuevas unidades aparecidas en la prensa. El análisis de los verbos denominales neológicos, recogidos de dos corpus, nos ha conducido a repensar el concepto de neologismo y a… read more
2015 Aspectual approach to causative-resultative denominal verbs Verb Classes and Aspect, Barrajón López, Elisa, José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique (eds.), pp. 334–356 | Article
This paper has as its aim to verify the hypothesis according to which a verbal semantic class might correspond to a homogeneous aspectual characterization, since it could be thought that all the lexical items which share semantic features within the same class should be given the same aspectual… read more
2011 Sensory-emotional denominal causative verbs Spanish Word Formation and Lexical Creation, Cifuentes Honrubia, José Luis and Susana Rodríguez Rosique (eds.), pp. 107–144 | Article
This chapter focuses on the causative behavior of sensory emotional denominal verbs. Under this label, as well as the so-called psychological or emotional verbs, some other verbs are also included. These verbs may convey a physical change of state or a psychological change of state, so they may be… read more