Belén Méndez-Naya

List of John Benjamins publications in which Belén Méndez-Naya is involved.

Titles

Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000: Volume 1. English Historical Syntax and Morphology; Volume 2. Sounds, Words, Texts and Change. 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Javier Pérez-Guerra, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane

These volumes offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela.From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the twelve papers in Volume 1 were carefully selected… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223-224] 2002. x, 306 pp. & x, 310 pp.

Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 2

Edited by Teresa Fanego, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane

This volume and its companion one (English Historical Syntax and Morphology, CILT 223) offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 224] 2002. ix, 301 pp.

Articles (8) | Order by:

Méndez-Naya, Belén 2017 Co-occurrence and iteration of intensifiers in Early English Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse, Vandelanotte, Lieven, Wout Van Praet and Lieselotte Brems (eds.), pp. 249–273 | Article

This article focuses on an aspect of intensification which has not, so far, received due attention in the extensive literature on the topic: intensifier iteration (very very hot) and co-occurrence (very extremely hot), with a special focus on Old, Middle and Early Modern English as represented in… read more

López-Couso, María José and Belén Méndez-Naya 2016 From clause to adverb: On the history of maybe Outside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents, Kaltenböck, Gunther, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann (eds.), pp. 157–176 | Article

This chapter is concerned with the origin and development of the English epistemic adverb maybe. Using various historical corpora, including the Helsinki Corpus and ARCHER as a baseline, we analyse a range of structures featuring the sequence (it) may be, paying special attention to those which may… read more

López-Couso, María José and Belén Méndez-Naya 2015 Epistemic/evidential markers of the type verb + complementizer: Some parallels from English and Romance New Directions in Grammaticalization Research, Smith, Andrew D.M., Graeme Trousdale and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 93–120 | Article

English and Romance possess a particularly interesting way of expressing evidentiality and epistemicity, namely markers involving a verb of saying, knowing, or seeming followed by a complementizer (Verb+C), as Spanish dizque, Galician seica, and English looks like. In this chapter we consider the… read more

López-Couso, María José and Belén Méndez-Naya 2014 On the origin of clausal parenthetical constructions: Epistemic/evidential parentheticals with seem  and impersonal think Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), pp. 189–212 | Article

This article contributes to the discussion on the origin of pragmatic markers by exploring the development of parenthetical structures with the two default verbs of seeming in the history of English: seem and impersonal think ‘seem, appear’. Drawing mainly on data from the Helsinki Corpus, we… read more

López-Couso, María José and Belén Méndez-Naya 2014 From clause to pragmatic marker: A study of the development of like-parentheticals in American English Journal of Historical Pragmatics 15:1, pp. 36–61 | Article

Propositional attitude predicates, such as English think, guess and seem, occur parenthetically in many languages. In this article we pay attention to a group of propositional attitude predicates which can be labelled epistemic/evidential, namely appear, look, seem and sound, and which, in… read more

Méndez-Naya, Belén 2010 Review of Lenker & Meurman-Solin (2007): Connectives in the History of English Journal of Historical Pragmatics 11:1, pp. 155–163 | Review

Méndez-Naya, Belén and Päivi Pahta 2010 Intensifiers in competition: The picture from early English medical writing Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 191–214 | Article

Méndez-Naya, Belén 2008 The which is most and right harde to answere: Intensifying right and most in earlier English English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dury, Richard, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena (eds.), pp. 31–51 | Article

This paper studies the intensifying use of most, comparing it to the behaviour ofright, one of the most common Middle English intensifiers. Using evidence from the Helsinki Corpus, this investigation shows that both items modify the same type of adjectival heads, namely bounded subjective positive… read more