Universitat de les Illes Balears

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Universitat de les Illes Balears*

Title

World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations

Edited by Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Varieties of English Around the World, G57] 2016. viii, 285 pp. |

Bellés, Eloi 2026 Socio-onomastics and political power: Regarding the toponym Maó (Menorca)

In: The Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages, Capdevila, Irene & Francesc Feliu (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 47] pp. 44–62

Enrique-Arias, Andrés & Katharina Gerhalter 2026  Morir morirás ‘for certain you will die’: Strategies for translating the Hebrew infinitive absolute in medieval and early modern Spanish Bibles

Keywords: Bible translation | Hebraism | infinitive absolute | calque | parallel corpora

Journal of Historical Linguistics | Online First Publication, 39 pp. | article | open access

Calpe Álvarez, Andrea, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Marta Rivera Zurita, Melania S. Masià & Francesco Romano 2026 L1 proximity and syntactic complexity in L2 Italian acquisition: Evidence from clitic pronouns

Keywords: second language acquisition | clitic production | structural priming | typological similarity | syntactic complexity

Journal of Second Language Studies | Online First Publication, 27 pp. | article

Benigno, Giuseppe, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Estela Garcia-Alcaraz & Marta Rivera 2026 Structural priming as a model for testing language change in bilingualism

Keywords: structural priming | cross-linguistic influence | language change | bilingualism | individual differences

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:4 pp. 540–569 | article

Amengual-Pizarro, Marian 2026 Affective predictors of out-of-class English learning: The role of L2 motivation, self-confidence, L2 speaking anxiety, and grit

Keywords: informal language learning | English as a second language | out-of-school language practices | affective variables | university students

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 177:1 pp. 1–28 | article

Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro & Ana Madeira 2025 On the acquisition of residual object drop in L2 Spanish by European Portuguese native speakers

Keywords: object drop | L2 Spanish | L1 preemption | Interpretability Hypothesis | Feature Reassembly Hypothesis

In: Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective, Barbosa, Pilar & Cristina Flores (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 19] pp. 171–204

Dols, Nicolau 2025 Perceptionally constrained repair strategies in morphophonology: Interaction as negotiation

Keywords: sound inventory | structure repair | Balearic Catalan | speaker-listener negotiation

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. 75–95 | open access

Fernández, Laura Camargo & Beatriz Méndez Guerrero 2025 La percepción de las variedades del español en Mallorca: Dialectología perceptiva a partir del PRECAVES XXI [The perception of the varieties of Spanish in Mallorca]

Keywords: Dialectología perceptiva | variación geolectal | variación sociolingüística | creencias | PRECAVES XXI Project | Perceptual dialectology | geolectal variation | sociolinguistic variation | beliefs | linguistic attitudes | varieties of Spanish | PRECAVES XXI Project

Spanish in Context 22:1 pp. 17–50 | article

Garcia-Alcaraz, Estela & Juana M. Liceras 2024 The narrative abilities of Spanish monolinguals and Spanish–Catalan bilinguals with Prader–Willi syndrome

Keywords: bilingualism | narrative abilities | macrostructure | microstructure | genetic disorders | Prader–Willi syndrome

In: Language Acquisition in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vicenç (ed.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 18] pp. 253–282

Aguilar-Mediavilla, Eva, Alberto Sánchez-Pedroche, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Josep A. Pérez-Castelló & Daniel Adrover-Roig 2024 Code-switching and code-mixing in bilingual Spanish–Catalan children with and without Developmental Language Disorder

Keywords: Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) | codeswitching | codemixing | Spanish-Catalan child bilingualism

In: Language Acquisition in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vicenç (ed.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 18] pp. 283–305

Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro, Iria Bello & Melania S. Masià 2024 Aspects of morphosyntax of Majorcan Catalan-Spanish bilingual variety: The omission of direct objects

Keywords: direct object expression | Majorcan Catalan-Spanish bilinguals | language dominance | mode of bilingualism

In: Language Acquisition in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vicenç (ed.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 18] pp. 34–55

Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro 2024 The acquisition of object drop in L2 Spanish by German speakers

Keywords: object drop | subjacency | L2 Spanish | L1 German

In: Language Acquisition in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vicenç (ed.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 18] p. 86

Seoane, Elena & Lucía Loureiro-Porto 2024 A diachronic corpus-pragmatic approach to democratization: The evolution of newspaper editorials, 1860–1979

Keywords: democratization | (semi)modals | contractions | passives | power relations | pragmatic variables

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25:2 pp. 215–244 | article

Solivellas, Ivan 2024 La fractocomposición: Una aproximación a las construcciones con fractoconstituyentes en catalán [Fractocompounding]

Keywords: fractocomposición | fractoconstituyentes | prefijoides | afijoides | lexicología | catalán | fractocompounding | fractoconstituents | prefixoids | affixoids | lexicology | Catalan

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 38:1 pp. 56–79 | article

Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro & Francesco Romano 2024 Number feature within generative grammar and its acquisition

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1 pp. 63–68 | article commentary

Bruyèl-Olmedo, Antonio 2024 ‘Dear guest, pay for your language’. How accommodation rating and ownership effect language presence on the Online Linguistic Landscape: The case of Palma de Mallorca

Keywords: Online Linguistic Landscape | hospitality websites | tourism | Mallorca | regional languages | Catalan

Linguistic Landscape 11:1 pp. 1–31 | article

Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro & Francesco Romano 2024 The acquisition of object drop and island sensitivity in L2 Spanish by German speakers

Keywords: object drop | subjacency | L2 Spanish | L1 German

Journal of Second Language Studies 8:1 pp. 24–57 | article

Cuberos Vicente, Rocío, Elisa Rosado Villegas & Iban Mañas Navarrete 2024 Towards a graded lexical inventory of multi-word combinations: The distribution of collocations across Spanish CEFR levels

Keywords: graded collocations | Spanish as a foreign language | productive vocabulary by CEFR-levels

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 175:1 pp. 46–76 | article

Fernández, Fruela 2023 Recognition versus redistribution?: Translation flows and the role of politically committed publishers in Spain

Keywords: book translation flows | book publishing | translation and politics | Spanish politics | activism and translation

In: Translation Flows: Exploring Networks of People, Processes and Products, Feinauer, Ilse, Amanda Marais & Marius Swart (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 163] pp. 69–86

Enrique-Arias, Andrés & Marina Gomila Albal 2023 Testing Twitter data on a morphosyntactic variable: The expression of the future in American and Peninsular Spanish

In: Corpus Dialectology, Pustka, Elissa, Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe & Verena Weiland (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 110] pp. 176–196

Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro, José Amenós-Pons & Aoife Ahern 2023 Acquisition of estar + adjective in L2 Spanish by L1 French and Portuguese speakers

Keywords: copular verbs | ser | estar | Spanish | French | Portuguese | second language acquisition

Spanish in Context 20:2 pp. 282–312 | article

Miguel Franco, Ruth & David Sánchez 2023 Análisis estadístico del contacto entre lenguas: El caso de las grafías 〈b〉 y 〈v〉 en la documentación en castellano de Mallorca (siglo XVIII)

Keywords: contacto histórico | betacismo | español de Mallorca | historical language contact | betacism | Spanish spoken in Mallorca

Spanish in Context 20:1 pp. 1–25 | article

Bordoy, Francesc Casadesús 2021 El orfismo: La progresiva transformación filosófica de una religión heterodoxa y soteriológica [Orphism]

In: Overarching Greek Trends in European Philosophy, Coronel Ramos, Marco Antonio (ed.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 30] p. 91

Bello Viruega, Iria & Elisa Narváez García 2021 A study of coherence relations in the English scientific register: Conjunctions in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

In: “All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts, Moskowich, Isabel, Inés Lareo & Gonzalo Camiña (eds.)  pp. 265–288

Bouso, Tamara & Pablo Ruano San Segundo 2021 Another turn of the screw on the history of the reaction object construction

Functions of Language 28:2 pp. 208–231 | article

Enrique-Arias, Andrés 2021  Vamos en Palma ‘we are going to Palma’: On the persistence (and demise) of a contact feature in the Spanish of Majorca

Keywords: language contact | Spanish and Catalan in Majorca | spatial relations | prepositions | intra-community recycling

In: Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and contact, Chappell, Whitney & Bridget Drinka (eds.) [Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 12] pp. 185–204

Enrique-Arias, Andrés & Beatriz Méndez Guerrero 2020 On the effects of Catalan contact in the variable expression of Spanish future tense: A contrastive study of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid and Palma, Majorca

Keywords: language change | language variation | Spanish–Catalan contact | future tense

In: Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives, Ortiz-López, Luis A., Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo & Melvin González-Rivera (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 22] pp. 315–334

Jiménez-Gaspar, Amelia, Acrisio Pires & Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes 2020 Transfer and convergence between Catalan and Spanish in a bilingual setting

Keywords: pronominal clitics | bilingualism | language contact and change | Majorca | social variables

In: Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives, Ortiz-López, Luis A., Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo & Melvin González-Rivera (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 22] pp. 179–212

Dols Salas, Nicolau A. 2020 El concepte d’integritat lingüística i la competència comunicativa: El contínuum dialecte/estàndard a Mallorca

Keywords: català | llengua estàndard | dialectes baleàrics | diaglòssia | identitat lingüística | política lingüística

In: Canvi lingüístic, estandardització i identitat en Català [Linguistic change, standardization and identity in Catalan], Radatz, Hans-Ingo (ed.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 27] pp. 1–24

Seoane, Elena & Cristina Suárez-Gómez 2020 Elaboration, compression and explicitness across sub-registers of popular and academic writing in Hong Kong English

Keywords: Hong Kong English | Academic writing | Popular writing | Relative clauses | Passives

Register Studies 2:2 pp. 275–305 | article

Bouso, Tamara 2020 The growth of the transitivising Reaction Object Construction

Keywords: Reaction Object Construction | transitivising construction | polysemous construction | constructionalisation | history of English

Constructions and Frames 12:2 pp. 239–271 | article

Dash, Tanya, Pierre Berroir, Ladan Ghazi-Saidi, Daniel Adrover-Roig & Ana Inés Ansaldo 2019 A new look at the question of the bilingual advantage: Dual mechanisms of cognitive control

Keywords: bilingualism | dual mechanisms of cognitive control | ageing

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:4 pp. 520–550 | article

Loureiro-Porto, Lucía 2019 Grammaticalization of semi-modals of necessity in Asian Englishes

Keywords: semi-modals | necessity | grammaticalization | modal must | Asian Englishes

English World-Wide 40:2 pp. 115–143 | article

Enrique-Arias, Andrés 2018 Some methodological issues in the corpus-based study of morphosyntactic variation: The case of Old Spanish possessives

In: Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 85] pp. 261–280

Llinàs, Caterina Valriu 2018 Les llegendes sobre la Passió de Jesús a la tradició catalana

Keywords: folklore català | llegenda etiològica | llegenda mimològica | llegendes sobre la Passió | Nou Testament

In: Del manuscrit a la paraula digital / From Manuscript to Digital Word: Estudis de llengua i literatura catalanes / Studies of Catalan language and literature, Pérez-Saldanya, Manuel & Rafael Roca Ricart (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 16] pp. 316–330

Vanrell, Maria del Mar & Olga Fernández-Soriano 2018 Language variation at the prosody-syntax interface: Focus in European Spanish

In: Focus realization in Romance and Beyond, García García, Marco & Melanie Uth (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 201] pp. 33–70

Suárez-Gómez, Cristina 2017 Transparency and language contact in the nativization of relative clauses in New Englishes

Keywords: transparency | language contact | isomorphism | structural nativization | relative clauses | New Englishes

English World-Wide 38:2 pp. 211–237 | article

Suárez-Gómez, Cristina 2014 Review of The English Language and Anglo-American Culture. Its Impact on Spanish Language and Society by Luján García Carmen (2013)

English World-Wide 35:1 pp. 95–98 | book review

Juan-Garau, Maria, Juana Salazar-Noguera & José Igor Prieto-Arranz 2014 Chapter 10. English L2 learners’ lexico-grammatical and motivational development at home and abroad

In: Language Acquisition in Study Abroad and Formal Instruction Contexts, Pérez-Vidal, Carmen (ed.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 13] pp. 235–258

Trenchs-Parera, Mireia & Maria Juan-Garau 2014 Chapter 11. A longitudinal study of learners’ motivation and beliefs in at home and study abroad contexts

In: Language Acquisition in Study Abroad and Formal Instruction Contexts, Pérez-Vidal, Carmen (ed.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 13] pp. 259–282

Juan-Garau, Maria 2014 Chapter 4. Oral accuracy growth after formal instruction and study abroad: Onset level, contact factors and long-term effects

In: Language Acquisition in Study Abroad and Formal Instruction Contexts, Pérez-Vidal, Carmen (ed.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 13] p. 87

Gené-Gil, Maria 2014 Manlleus de l’anglès / English loanwords

Keywords: borrowing | Catalan | diatopic variation | English as a lingua franca | language of the media | language variation | loanwords | neology

In: Mots nous en català / New words in Catalan: Una panoràmica geolectal / A diatopic view, Cabré, Teresa, Ona Domènech Bagaria & Rosa Estopà (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 7] pp. 133–144

Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro 2014 Adjectival modification in L2 Spanish Noun Phrases

EUROSLA Yearbook 14:1 pp. 143–172 | article

Ahern, Aoife K., José Amenós-Pons & Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes 2014 Interfaces in the interpretation of mood alternation in L2 Spanish: Morpho-phonology, semantics and pragmatics

EUROSLA Yearbook 14:1 pp. 173–200 | article

Loureiro-Porto, Lucía 2013 Review of Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Grammaticalization by Kristin Davidse, Lieven Vandelanotte & Hubert Cuyckens (2010)

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 14:1 pp. 131–137 | book review

Seoane, Elena & Cristina Suárez-Gómez 2013 The expression of the perfect in East and South-East Asian Englishes

Keywords: perfect | Asian Englishes | variation | preterite | the Philippines English | Indian English | Hong Kong English | Singapore English | British English

English World-Wide 34:1 pp. 1–25 | article

Loureiro-Porto, Lucía 2012 On the relationship between subjectification, grammaticalisation and constructions: Evidence from the history of English

Keywords: grammaticalisation | subjectification | modality | construction | unidirectionality | history of English

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:2 pp. 232–258 | article

Enrique-Arias, Andrés 2010 On language contact as an inhibitor of language change: The Spanish of Catalan bilinguals in Majorca

In: Continuity and Change in Grammar, Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts & David Willis (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 159] p. 97

Suárez-Gómez, Cristina 2008 Syntactic dialectal variation in Middle English

In: English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology, Gotti, Maurizio, Marina Dossena & Richard Dury (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295] pp. 141–156

Loureiro-Porto, Lucía 2008 The convergence of two need verbs in Middle English

In: English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change, Dury, Richard, Maurizio Gotti & Marina Dossena (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 296] p. 97

López Rúa, Paula 2008 Keeping up with the times: Lexical creativity in electronic communication

In: Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts, Munat, Judith (ed.) [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 58] pp. 137–159

Dols I Salas, Nicolau A. 1996 Review of The Protection of Ethnic and Linguistic Minorities in Europe by John Packer & Kristian Myntti (1993)

Language Problems and Language Planning 20:3 pp. 300–303 | book review

Dols I Salas, Nicolau A. 1996 Review of Les couples mixtes by Gabrielle Varro (1995)

Language Problems and Language Planning 20:3 pp. 289–292 | book review

Dols I Salas, Nicolau A. 1995 Review of The Celtic Connection edited by Glanville Price (1992)

Language Problems and Language Planning 19:3 pp. 316–318 | book review

Dols I Salas, Nicolau A. 1995 Review of Breaking the Boundaries: Migrant Workers’ Children in the EC by Evan Reid & Hans R. Reich (1992)

Language Problems and Language Planning 19:2 pp. 210–213 | book review

Pronina, Mariia, Sergey Knyazev & Maria del Mar Vanrell Intonation of yes-no questions in multilingual Russian-speaking heritage children

Keywords: intonation | heritage language | multilingual | development | language acquisition

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism | Online First Publication, 31 pp. | article

Florit-Pons, Júlia, Alfonso Igualada & Pilar Prieto The limitations of active embodiment in preschool classrooms: Evaluating the effectiveness of multimodality in a classroom-based narrative intervention

Keywords: multimodality | narrative intervention | narrative macrostructure | narrative perspective-taking | narrative microstructure | preschool education

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics | Online First Publication, 47 pp. | article | open access

Enrique-Arias, Andrés Nuevos datos sobre el foco cronogeográfico y sociohistórico de selo con valor no reflexivo que reemplaza a gelo en el castellano de finales de la Edad Media [New data on the chronological, geographic, and sociohistorical origen of selo with non-reflexive value replacing gelo in late medieval castilian]

Keywords: Clíticos de objeto | morfosintaxis | dialectología histórica | sociolingüística histórica | object clitics | morphosyntax | historical dialectology | historical sociolinguistics

Spanish in Context | Online First Publication | article | open access

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