Montserrat Martínez Vázquez
List of John Benjamins publications for which Montserrat Martínez Vázquez plays a role.
2023 Chapter 10. A constructional analysis of
digo yo
in peninsular Spanish Constructions in Spanish, Hennecke, Inga and Evelyn Wiesinger (eds.), pp. 255–278 | Chapter
This paper examines the variable functions of the clausal construction
digo yo
(DY) ‘I say’ in contemporary Peninsular Spanish. A corpus-based analysis shows pendulation between a communicative DY, which introduces past quotes, and a metacommunicative DY, which functions as a… read more
2015 Satellite-framed patterns in Romance languages: A corpus-based study Languages in Contrast 15:2, pp. 181–207 | Article
The present analysis is grounded in the belief that linguists, when describing a language, should aim for a full and comprehensive coverage. Talmy’s (1985, 2000) influential two-way typology, verb-framed vs. satellite-framed patterns, represents the preferred option here for the encoding of motion… read more
2005 Communicative constructions in English and Spanish The Dynamics of Language Use: Functional and contrastive perspectives, Butler, Christopher S., María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez (eds.), pp. 79–109 | Article
1998 Effected Objects in English and Spanish Languages in Contrast 1:2, pp. 245–264 | Article
This paper examines resulting objects in English and Spanish. Fillmore's (1968) concept of effected object, e.g. He built the table has been extended to include certain resulting objects which are not sub categorized by their verbs: He kicked a hole in the door, She smiled her thanks or They… read more