Jesus Olguin Martinez
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jesus Olguin Martinez is involved.
2026 Exceptive constructions in Huasteca Nahuatl: On the interaction of syntax and discourse in language use Studies in Language 50:1, pp. 206–232 | Article
The paper explores exceptive constructions (e.g., all my family went to the wedding except Mark) in Huasteca Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan). It is shown that connected and free exceptives have developed intriguing discourse-pragmatic functions that have not been identified by previous studies. While… read more
2026 Filler-slot relations in language contact: Lexico-syntactic transference from a usage-based perspective Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The present study investigates the influence of Mexican Spanish similative (e.g., he swims like a fish) and pretence constructions (e.g., he swims as if he were a fish) on those found in four Mesoamerican languages: Huasteca Nahuatl, Papantla Totonac, San Gabriel Huastec, and Uxpanapa Chinantec.… read more
2025 The link between syntax, semantics, discourse, and lexicon in counteridenticals: A multivariate extension of co-varying collexeme analysis Functions of Language 32:3, pp. 339–365 | Article
The present study goes beyond traditional usage-based work in that it pays close attention not only to the interaction of lexicon and syntax in language use, but also to how other analytic layers of analysis (e.g., discourse) can influence the compatibility of lexemes in particular slots of… read more
2025 Similative-pretence constructions in language contact situations: A Usage-Based Construction Grammar perspective Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:2, pp. 292–321 | Article
The present study introduces a method that can be used to explore in a quantitatively rigorous yet less demanding way (both in terms of data and statistical requirements) how constructional templates and their lexical preferences (lexico-syntactic transference) diffuse in language contact… read more
2025 The similative-pretence alternating pair and filler-slot relations: A revised version of distinctive collexeme analysis Constructions and Frames 17:1, pp. 65–91 | Article
The present paper investigates the similative-pretence alternating pair in Mexican Spanish (como/igual que and como si constructions) based on the analysis of 1362 instances from The Corpus del Español NOW (News on the Web) corpus. We apply a revised version of distinctive collexeme analysis to… read more
2024 ‘Until’ constructions and expletive negation in Huasteca Nahuatl Studies in Language 48:4, pp. 753–780 | Article
A number of works have explored expletive negation in clause-linkage constructions. Most of them have shown that this type of negative marker can be omitted from the adverbial clause without affecting the interpretation holding between clauses. The study shows, based on the analysis of natural… read more
2023 Chapter 14. A typological study of tail-head linkage constructions Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective, Barotto, Alessandra and Simone Mattiola (eds.), pp. 403–432 | Chapter
This paper explores tail-head linkage constructions in a convenience sample of 58 languages. Special attention is paid to recapitulative constructions in which reported speech clauses are omitted and only the quotative verb is recapitulated and summary constructions composed of a light verb… read more