Rita Eloranta
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rita Eloranta is involved.
Articles
2025 Is the FROM construction community-specific? The coalescence of Finnish cases and Swedish and Spanish prepositions in the Helsinki metropolitan area Beyond Corpus Data — Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, Granvik, Anton, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä and Eveliina Mäntylä (eds.), pp. 408–439 | Article
Multilingual speakers often display what has traditionally been considered linguistic interference. It is well known that Finnish influences the language use of speakers of other languages, such as Swedish. This study focuses on how Finnish the FROM-cases elative and ablative affect the… read more
2020 Chapter 11. New Mochica and the challenge of reviving an extinct language Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world, Sessarego, Sandro, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli (eds.), pp. 253–274 | Chapter
In this paper, we discuss New Mochica as an example of language revival. New Mochica is definitely not the Mochica of the colonial or republican epoch of present-day Peru and the continuity of an already extinct language can be questioned. Van Coetsem’s (1988, 2000) framework of language contact… read more
2017 Chapter 15. Language contact across the Andes: The case of Mochica and Hibito-Cholón Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 319–334 | Chapter
This paper proposes a case for language contact between two genetically unrelated and extinct Andean language groups: Mochica, which was spoken on the northern coast of Peru, and Hibito and Cholón, which were spoken in the Peruvian northern eastern slopes. The analysis offers evidence of both… read more