Ricardo Maldonado
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ricardo Maldonado is involved.
Yearbook
ISSN 1572-0268 | E‑ISSN 1572‑0276
2025 Impersonal and middle constructions in Spanish oral conflictive discourse The Grammar of Interaction: Epistemicity, information management and discourse in language use, Rodríguez Rosique, Susana and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez (eds.), pp. 2–37 | Chapter
This paper elaborates on the problem of shielding in interactive discourse. It attempts to explore specific syntactic constructions responding to particular communicative requirements in conflictive discourse. The discourse of couples in therapy is analyzed to identify how grammatical phenomena… read more
2024 No seas buey, cabrón: De lo rudo a lo cálido en el tratamiento interpersonal Culturas Juveniles, Contracultura y Procesos de Difusión en el Español Coloquial, Llopis Cardona, Ana (ed.), pp. 78–103 | Article
El presente artículo analiza la evolución diacrónica de dos vocablos de tratamiento familiar de notable frecuencia en el español de México cuyo origen designa animales. Su primera extensión semántica durante el siglo XIX es altamente ofensiva buey = “tonto”, cabrón = “rufián”. Este estudio ubica… read more
2024 Chapter 7. Bestial and warm addressing forms in Mexican Spanish: The case of buey and cabrón Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador and Shima Salameh Jiménez (eds.), pp. 218–239 | Chapter
This paper explores the evolution of two names for animals, buey ‘ox’ and cabrón ‘mail goat’, that have undergone a set of important semantic and pragmatic changes since the XIXth Century. The change from offensive to warm and friendly addressing forms involved a series of semantic bleaching… read more
2018 Chapter 9. según along time: Following an epistemic path Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish: Explorations across genres, Figueras Bates, Carolina and Adrián Cabedo (eds.), pp. 205–222 | Chapter
This paper attempts to show that según has developed not only evidential reportative functions, but also a set of meanings that move towards the dominion of epistemicity. Diachronic analysis, shows that the original meaning of según (Lat. secundare ‘to second, to follow’) gradually moves towards… read more
2014 Apenas: Aspectual reduction and subjective evaluation in Spanish Review of Cognitive Linguistics 12:2, pp. 443–469 | Article
This paper explores both the polysemy and the development of the adverb apenas ‘barely hardly’ into a discourse marker of temporal proximity ‘just/recently’. In contrast to well-known expected tendencies in grammaticalization, apenas runs against the cannon. The subjective adverb apenas, that… read more
2006
Syntactic Determinants of Pragmatic Markers of “Closure”
Topics in Subjectification and Modalization, Cornillie, Bert and Nicole Delbecque (eds.), pp. 19–44 | Article
2005 Review of Palancar (2002): The origin of agent markers Studies in Language 29:2, pp. 490–495 | Review article
2004 Ronald Langacker: A visit to Cognitive Grammar Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 2, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 305–319 | Article
2002 Tarascan causatives and event complexity The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation, Shibatani, Masayoshi (ed.), pp. 157–195 | Article
2000 Conceptual distance and transitivity increase in Spanish reflexives Reflexives: Forms and functions, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Traci Walker (eds.), pp. 153–186 | Article