Linde Roels
List of John Benjamins publications in which Linde Roels is involved.
Articles
2025 La evolución reciente del intensificador mazo (de) en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño: Gramaticalización y difusión social Revue Romane 60:2, pp. 267–296 | Article
This article aims to trace the grammaticalization and recent social diffusion of the intensifier mazo (de). Despite its high frequency in the language of Madrilenian teenagers, this linguistic innovation of the late 20th century has not been studied in detail to date. To this end, a real-time… read more
2024 Chapter 2. The apparent-time construct as a proxy to spoken conversational data in the 20th century: A Spanish case study Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador and Shima Salameh Jiménez (eds.), pp. 63–94 | Chapter
The 20th century is characterized by important changes in the sociohistorical context of Spain, which have led to the steady process of colloquialization of Spanish, in both spoken and written language. Still, these major developments contrast sharply with the scarcity of oral conversational… read more

