Belén López Meirama
List of John Benjamins publications for which Belén López Meirama plays a role.
Articles
2024 Vete a freír cristales: The interplay of convention and innovation in a constructional idiom of rejection in Spanish Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The constructional idiom [IRSE/ANDAR(SE)[imperative]
a CLAUSE[infinitive]] (e.g., Vete a freír espárragos, lit. ‘go to fry asparagus’; Iros a tomar viento, lit. ‘go to get wind’) is commonly used in Spanish to convey the speaker’s strong rejection, and is a hallmark of colloquial… read more
2023 Chapter 6. The construction [a TODO Nsg] in Spanish Constructions in Spanish, Hennecke, Inga and Evelyn Wiesinger (eds.), pp. 129–153 | Chapter
In this chapter we present a holistic analysis of instances of the constructional idiom [a TODO Nsg], as conceived, both theoretically and methodologically, from the perspective of Construction Grammar (Croft, 2001; Goldberg, 2006). The construction under scrutiny here presents a high degree of… read more
2008 On the grammaticalization of the Spanish expression puede que Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization, Seoane, Elena and María José López-Couso (eds.), pp. 293–314 | Article