Carlos Benavides
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carlos Benavides plays a role.
Articles
2019 The historical present in Spanish and semantic/pragmatic structure Pragmatics 29:1, pp. 7–31 | Article
The historical present (HP) is the use of the present tense to refer to past events, usually as part of a narrative. Most work on this topic has dealt with the functions of English HP, mainly within the context of tense switching in conversational narrative. Relatively little work focuses… read more
2016 Forms of address in historical and geographical context Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas, Moyna, María Irene and Susana Rivera-Mills (eds.), pp. 119–124 | Article
The four articles in this section represent an important contribution to the linguistic and extralinguistic analysis of the forms of address employed in Hispanic America and Spanish-speaking areas of the United States. After offering a summary of the key points discussed in each paper, the present… read more