Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México*

Titles

Weak Referentiality

Edited by Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Bert Le Bruyn & Joost Zwarts

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 219] 2014. xii, 390 pp. |

Missionary Linguistics IV / Lingüística misionera IV: Lexicography. Selected papers from the Fifth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Mérida, Yucatán, 14-17 March 2007

Edited by Otto Zwartjes, Ramón Arzápalo Marín & Thomas C. Smith-Stark

Subjects History of linguistics

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 114] 2009. vi, 340 pp. | edited volume

Flores-Hernández, Ana Abigahil, Roilhi Frajo Ibarra-Hernández, Pauline Moore, Teresa Monserrat Rodríguez Torres & Daniela Cisneros Razo 2026 Manual vs automated identification of English L2 suffixes and complex words across levels of proficiency: A preliminary validation of Morph

Keywords: L2 English | NLP | derivational suffixes | written corpora

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research | Online First Publication, 26 pp. | article

Maldonado, Ricardo 2025 Impersonal and middle constructions in Spanish oral conflictive discourse

Keywords: se constructions | middle | passive | conflictive discourse

In: The Grammar of Interaction: Epistemicity, information management and discourse in language use, Rodríguez Rosique, Susana & Jordi M. Antolí Martínez (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 46] pp. 2–37 | open access

Maldonado, Ricardo 2024 Bestial and warm addressing forms in Mexican Spanish: The case of buey and cabrón

Keywords: vocatives | address forms | buey | cabrón | Mexican Spanish

In: Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador & Shima Salameh Jiménez (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 340] pp. 218–239

Maldonado, Ricardo 2024  No seas buey, cabrón : De lo rudo a lo cálido en el tratamiento interpersonal

Keywords: buey | formas de tratamiento | pragmaticalización | buey | address forms | informal | pragmaticalization

Spanish in Context 21:1 p. 78 | article

Minto-García, Aline, Elda Alicia Alva Canto, Natalia Arias-Trejo & Tania Jasso 2024 The function of the pointing gesture-speech combination in children’s story retelling

Keywords: pointing gesture-speech combination | communicative functions | story retelling | joint attention task | multimodal communication | combinación del gesto de señalar y el habla | funciones comunicativas | recuento de historias | tarea de atención conjunta | comunicación multimodal

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 38:1 pp. 192–222 | article

Jiménez Martínez, María Isabel & Chantal Melis 2023 A constructional approach to causative support verbs in Spanish

Keywords: causation | Cognitive Construction Grammar | emotion nouns | Spanish | support verbs

In: Constructions in Spanish, Hennecke, Inga & Evelyn Wiesinger (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 34] p. 78

Velázquez-Lora, Lihit Andrea 2022 Including them and all the rest: Gender-neutral pronouns in EFL class

Keywords: gender-neutral pronouns | EFL teaching | translation training | translation | intercultural competence

Journal of Language and Sexuality 11:2 pp. 240–250 | article

Rincón Hernández, Itsel Merari 2022 Interpretación semántica de verbos frasales por aprendientes de inglés como segunda lengua a partir de la posición (dis)continua de sus partículas [Semantic interpretation of phrasal verbs by learners of English as a second language by means of the (dis)continuous position of their particles]

Keywords: procesamiento el lenguaje | partículas | lingüística experimental | semántica | adquisición de segundas lenguas | language processing | particles | experimental linguistics | semantics | second language acquisition

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 37:2 pp. 553–590 | article

Vinogradov, Igor 2022 Pioneers of contrastive linguistics: Dominican missionaries in Highland Guatemala

Keywords: history of linguistics | missionary linguistics | contrastive approach | translation studies | Mayan languages | Q’eqchi’/Poqomchi’

Languages in Contrast 23:1 pp. 34–59 | article

Arias-Trejo, Natalia, Gemma Bel-Enguix, Julia B. Barrón-Martínez, Aline Minto-García, Oscar Arias-Carrión & Martha M. González-González 2022 Word association norms in Mexican older adults

Keywords: word association norms in Spanish | semantic memory | older adults | lexical relations

The Mental Lexicon 17:2 pp. 155–177 | article

Mendoza, Arturo, Viviana Oropeza, Daniel Rodríguez, Zazil Sobrevilla & Joaquín Martínez 2022 Challenges, feelings, and attitudes towards writing in ERPP in semi-periphery countries: The case of Mexican graduate students

Keywords: English for research publication purposes | English for academic purposes | English as an additional language | graduate students in semi-periphery countries | attitudes towards writing in ERPP | inglés con fines de publicación de investigación | inglés con fines académicos | inglés como lengua adicional | estudiantes de posgrado en países de la semiperiferia | actitudes hacia la escritura en ERPP

Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 2:2 pp. 129–159 | article

Melis, Chantal 2020 Form and meaning in the development of verbal polysemy

Keywords: alcanzar | polysemy | Spanish | semantic change | formal change

In: Changes in meaning and function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish, Fernández Jaén, Jorge & Herminia Provencio Garrigós (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 25] pp. 173–194

Garachana Camarero, Mar & Axel Hernández Díaz 2020 From semantics to grammar: Lexical substitution in the evolution of verbal periphrases haber / tener + infinitive

Keywords: historical syntax | construction grammar | verbal periphrases | supporting constructions | analogy

In: Changes in meaning and function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish, Fernández Jaén, Jorge & Herminia Provencio Garrigós (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 25] p. 77

Hernández-Mena, Carlos Daniel, Ivan V. Meza-Ruiz, Juan Antonio Ramírez-Orta & José Abel Herrera-Camacho 2020 Algoritmos fonéticos para la detección de palabras fonéticamente similares en el español del centro de México [Phonetic algorithms for detection of phonetically similar words in Central-Mexico Spanish]

Keywords: algoritmos fonéticos | español de México | Soundex | palabras fonéticamente similares | algoritmo PFS | phonetic algorithms | Mexican Spanish | Soundex | phonetically similar words | PFS algorithm

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 33:1 pp. 140–170 | article

Uchihara, Hiroto & Ambrocio Gutiérrez 2020 Subject and agentivity in Teotitlán Zapotec

Keywords: Zapotec | subject | agentivity | stem alternation

Studies in Language 44:3 pp. 548–605 | article

Aguilar Campos, Citlaly 2020 Animation and myth of the hero as discursive device in Mexican political campaigns: López Obrador and Alfredo del Mazo

Keywords: animation | myth | hero | politic | discourse

Language and Dialogue 10:3 pp. 320–339 | article

Auza-Benavides, Alejandra, Christian Peñaloza C. & Chiharu Murata 2019 The influence of maternal education on the linguistic abilities of monolingual Spanish-speaking children with and without Specific Language Impairment

Keywords: maternal education | grammatical measures | lexical measures | specific language impairment

In: Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages, Aguilar-Mediavilla, Eva, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Raúl López-Penadés, Victor A. Sanchez-Azanza & Daniel Adrover-Roig (eds.)  p. 93 | open access

Melis, Chantal & Marcela Flores 2018 The dative experiencer of Spanish gustar

Keywords: Spanish | experiencer | dative | nominative | subject | oblique | quirky subject

In: Studies in historical Ibero-Romance morpho-syntax, Bouzouita, Miriam, Ioanna Sitaridou & Enrique Pato (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 16] pp. 123–148

Martín Butragueño, Pedro & Érika Mendoza 2018 Prosodic nuclear patterns in narrow and broad focus utterances: Pragmatic and social factors in Central Mexican Spanish

In: Focus realization in Romance and Beyond, García García, Marco & Melanie Uth (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 201] pp. 131–172

Company Company, Concepción 2019 Four directionalities for grammaticalization: Evidence for new diachronic paths

Keywords: directionality | grammaticalization | round trip directionality | cline

Journal of Historical Linguistics 8:3 pp. 356–387 | article

Cancino Cabello1, Nataly 2018 La categoría ‘nombre’ en la Grammatica o Arte (1560) de Domingo de Santo Tomás y en el Arte (1571) de Alonso de Molina

Historiographia Linguistica 45:1/2 pp. 1–36 | article

Akerberg, Marianne 2017 Amaral, Patricia & Ana Maria Carvalho (eds.) Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces. Diachrony, synchrony and contact

Spanish in Context 14:3 pp. 502–509 | book review

Company Company, Concepción 2017 Adverbial adjectives and -mente adverbs face to face: Diachronic evidence from Spanish

In: Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance, Hummel, Martin & Salvador Valera (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 242] pp. 257–286 | open access

Pfeiler, Barbara 2017 The acquisition of action nouns in Yucatec Maya

Keywords: language acquisition | Yucatec Maya | action nouns

In: Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, Vapnarsky, Valentina & Edy Veneziano (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 182] pp. 443–466

Triviño, Ascensión Hernández 2016 Tradiciones, paradigmas y escuelas: Una visión general de las gramáticas misioneras mesoamericanas

Historiographia Linguistica 43:1/2 pp. 11–59 | article

Soler Arechalde, María Angeles 2015 Review of El español hablado en América Central: nivel morfosintáctico edited by Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco (2013)

Spanish in Context 12:2 pp. 312–316 | book review

Serrano, Julio 2016 Review of Spanish Speakers In The USA by Janet M. Fuller (2013)

Spanish in Context 12:3 pp. 442–448 | book review

Oyosa Romero, Anabel Eugenia 2014 Review of Variación lingüística y contacto de lenguas en el mundo hispánico. In memoriam Manuel Alvar edited by Yolanda Congosto Martín & Elena Méndez García de Paredes (2011)

Spanish in Context 11:1 pp. 141–144 | book review

Maldonado, Ricardo & Rocío Guzmán 2014  Apenas : Aspectual reduction and subjective evaluation in Spanish

Keywords: discourse marker | adverbs | subjectivity | temporal proximity | cognitive grammar | force dynamics

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 12:2 pp. 443–469 | article

Melis, Chantal 2014 The modal category of sufficiency

In: Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar, Leiss, Elisabeth & Werner Abraham (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 149] pp. 353–376

Rojas Nieto, Cecilia 2014 Verb sequences and early verb inflection in Spanish: Frequency, patterning and possible effects

Keywords: person marking | verb inflection | morphological development | Mexican Spanish | Usage-based grammar | sequential patterns

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 5:1 pp. 82–99 | article

Melis, Chantal & Marcela Flores 2013 On the historical expansion of non-canonically marked ‘subjects’ in Spanish

In: The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects, Seržant, Ilja A. & Leonid Kulikov (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 140] pp. 163–184

Bohnemeyer, Jürgen & Carolyn O'Meara 2012 10. Vectors and frames of reference: Evidence from Seri and Yucatec

Keywords: indigenous languages of Mexico | location | orientation | semantic typology

In: Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition, Filipović, Luna & Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 37] pp. 217–249

Melis, Chantal & Marcela Flores 2012 Emergence and grammaticalization of constructions within the se me network of Spanish

In: Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections, Davidse, Kristin, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems, Tanja Mortelmans, Bert Cornillie, Hubert Cuyckens & Torsten Leuschner (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 130] pp. 249–270

Guerrero, Lilián 2012 On relative clauses and related constructions in Yaqui

In: Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview, Comrie, Bernard & Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 102] p. 97

Lastra, Yolanda 2009 6. Toward a study of language variation and change in Jonaz Chichimeco

In: Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Stanford, James N. & Dennis R. Preston (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 25] pp. 153–171

Arzápalo Marín, Ramón 2009 Las aportaciones del Calepino de Motul y su tránsito por la lexicografía computacional

In: Missionary Linguistics IV / Lingüística misionera IV: Lexicography. Selected papers from the Fifth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Mérida, Yucatán, 14-17 March 2007, Zwartjes, Otto, Ramón Arzápalo Marín & Thomas C. Smith-Stark (eds.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 114] p. 83

Melis, Chantal & Marcela Flores 2009 On the development of Recipient passives in DO languages: A case study

In: Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007, Dufresne, Monique, Fernande Dupuis & Etleva Vocaj (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 308] pp. 123–134

Rojas-Nieto, Cecilia 2009 ‘Starting small’ effects in the acquisition of early relative constructions in Spanish

In: Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. & Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 85] pp. 277–310

Clapp, Lenny 2009 The rhetorical relations approach to indirect speech acts: Problems and prospects

Keywords: speech act | dynamic semantics | discourse | indirect speech | pragmatics | rhetorical relation

Pragmatics & Cognition 17:1 pp. 43–76 | article

Ibañez Cerda, Sergio 2008 "Saying" verbs in Spanish: Deepening the lexical semantics description

In: Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, Van Valin Jr., Robert D. (ed.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 105] p. 3

Guerrero, Lilián 2008 Alternative expressions of 'want' complements

In: Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, Van Valin Jr., Robert D. (ed.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 105] pp. 321–336

Company Company, Concepción 2008 The directionality of grammaticalization in Spanish

Keywords: subjectification | grammaticalization | Spanish | directionality | historical syntax

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 9:2 pp. 200–224 | article

Dakin, Karen 2008 Final features and proto-Uto-Aztecan: A contribution using morphological reconstruction

In: Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005, Salmons, Joseph C. & Shannon Dubenion-Smith (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 284] pp. 295–310

Curcó, Carmen 2006 Code switching and identity in the discourse of Catalan immigrants in Mexico

AILA Review 18:1 pp. 18–40 | article

Vernon Carter, Sofía A., Gabriela Calderón & Luis Castro 2004 The relationship between phonological awareness and writing

Written Language & Literacy 7:1 pp. 101–118 | article

de León-Portilla, Ascensión Hernández 2003 Las primeras gramáticas mesoamericanas: Algunos rasgos lingüísticos

Historiographia Linguistica 30:1/2 pp. 1–44 | article

Company Company, Concepción 2003 Grammaticalization and category weakness

In: New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse & Gabriele Diewald (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 49] pp. 201–215

Ezcurdia, Maite 2003 Thinking about myself

In: Self-Reference and Self-Awareness, Brook, Andrew & Richard C. DeVidi (eds.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 30] pp. 179–204

Company Company, Concepción 2001 Multiple dative-marking grammaticalization: Spanish as a special kind of primary object language

Studies in Language 25:1 pp. 1–47 | article

Company Company, Concepción 1998 The Interplay Between form and Meaning in Language Change: Grammaticalization of Cannibalistic Datives in Spanish

Studies in Language 22:3 pp. 529–565 | article

Blanch, Juan M. Lope 1997 Las Osservationi de Giovanni Miranda

Historiographia Linguistica 24:1/2 pp. 29–40 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.