Concepción Company Company
List of John Benjamins publications in which Concepción Company Company is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2211-5412
Journal
Journal of Historical Linguistics
General Editor: Silvia Luraghi and Guglielmo Inglese
ISSN 2210-2116 | E‑ISSN 2210‑2124
2018 Four directionalities for grammaticalization: Evidence for new diachronic paths Journal of Historical Linguistics 8:3, pp. 356–387 | Article
This article offers an analysis and systematization of the relationship between directionality and grammaticalization and develops an innovative proposal regarding a new type of directionality. The article proposes four types of directionality in grammaticalization: A. down, B. up, C. neither… read more
2017 Chapter 9. Adverbial adjectives and - mente adverbs face to face: Diachronic evidence from Spanish Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance, Hummel, Martin and Salvador Valera (eds.), pp. 257–286 | Chapter
The paper compares five minimal pairs of adverbial adjectives (aa) and -mente adverbs in two periods of Spanish, the 18th and the 21st centuries. The hypothesis is that aa keeps “traces” or “memory” of its original adjective category, and for that reason, to recategorize as an adverb, aa needs… read more
2008 The directionality of grammaticalization in Spanish Journal of Historical Pragmatics 9:2, pp. 200–224 | Article
The paper examines three directions of grammaticalization by subjectification. Using the general cline Grammar > Discourse and Discourse > Grammar or Grammar ↔ Discourse, Spanish shows three types of diachronic subjectification, going in three different directions: (1) Grammar > Grammar; (2)… read more
2006 Subjectification of Verbs into Discourse Markers: Semantic-pragmatic Change only? Topics in Subjectification and Modalization, Cornillie, Bert and Nicole Delbecque (eds.), pp. 97–121 | Article
2005 Frecuencia de uso y contacto lingüístico en sintaxis: Artículo indefinido + posesivo en el español americano Spanish in Context 2:2, pp. 131–156 | Article
Este trabajo examina los problemas teóricos y metodológicos con que se enfrenta cualquier análisis que intente comprobar contacto o interferencia lingüística en el nivel sintáctico de la lengua, y plantea que el examen minucioso de las frecuencias relativas de uso de las construcciones en contextos… read more
2002 Grammaticalization and category weakness New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 201–215 | Article
2001 Multiple dative-marking grammaticalization: Spanish as a special kind of primary object language Studies in Language 25:1, pp. 1–47 | Article
The aim of this paper is to provide some diachronic evidence of how a language acquires primary object properties, and to shed some light on the disputable status of dative expressions (Dats) in two object constructions. Spanish having in its origin two object case-markings, one for the Acc-patient… read more
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
The paper tries to show that in changes of multiple causation, meaning is a leading factor in determining the syntactic output. Although formal and semantic-pragmatic factors converge in a complementary way, they carry different weights: formal factors lay the seed for the innovative construction… read more
