María Irene Moyna
List of John Benjamins publications in which María Irene Moyna is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2405-9269
Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction
Edited by Víctor Fernández-Mallat and María Irene Moyna
Beyond binaries in address research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction shifts the focus of address studies away from the traditional T/V opposition and toward a more flexible, contextually situated framework. The volume brings together linguistic phenomena that do not fit neatly… read more[Topics in Address Research, 6] 2025. vi, 266 pp.
It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research
Edited by Bettina Kluge and María Irene Moyna
The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives. The present edited collection is the inaugural volume of Topics in Address Research, a series that aims to reflect that growing interest. The volume… read more[Topics in Address Research, 1] 2019. vi, 447 pp.
Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas
Edited by María Irene Moyna and Susana Rivera-Mills
In the growing field of address research, Spanish emerges as one of the most complex Indo European languages. Firstly, it presents second person variation in its nominal, pronominal, and verbal systems. Moreover, several Spanish varieties have more than two address variants, which compete and mix… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 10] 2016. x, 352 pp.
Compound Words in Spanish: Theory and history
María Irene Moyna
This is the first book devoted entirely to the history of compound words in Spanish. Based on data obtained from Spanish dictionaries and databases of the past thousand years, it documents the evolution of the major compounding patterns of the language. It analyzes the structural, semantic, and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 316] 2011. xxv, 451 pp.
2025 Chapter 1. Introduction: Beyond binaries in address research Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction, Fernández-Mallat, Víctor and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2024 Chapter 7. Tracing the emergence of the voseo/tuteo semantic split in Río de la Plata second person subjunctives: The role of child language acquisition Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives, Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.), pp. 150–178 | Chapter
This study documents the history of second person singular informal variation in Rioplatense Spanish. It focuses on the competition between voseo and tuteo forms in the subjunctive and proposes that the outcome of this variation can be linked to the acquisition of these forms by children. In… read more
2023 Story, style, and structure: The second person in early Uruguayan children’s literature Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:2, pp. 217–244 | Article
This study analyses variation and change in Uruguayan Spanish address between formal (usted) and informal variants (tú, vos). It focusses on address representations in children’s literature written between 1918 and 1973 – foundational texts that helped consolidate national identity. Our study… read more
2023 Children as agents of language change: Diachronic evidence from Latin American Spanish phonology Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:3, pp. 327–374 | Article
This paper explores the operation of child language acquisition as a critical factor in some forms of language change. It proposes a sociohistorical model that incorporates the potential for young children to function as linguistic agents in certain environments, characterized by unpredictable… read more
2019 Variation in polite address in contemporary Uruguayan Spanish It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research, Kluge, Bettina and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 191–220 | Chapter
This chapter explores formal address pronoun usted in Uruguayan Spanish (USp), by ascertaining the extent of its use and the influence of social and pragmatic variables. The study is based on a questionnaire that included situations of social distance or power difference (n = 579). For each… read more
2019 Address and address research: Here’s looking at you, kid It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research, Kluge, Bettina and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Introduction
2018 Chapter 3. The history of concatenative compounds in Spanish Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morpho-Syntax, Bouzouita, Miriam, Ioanna Sitaridou and Enrique Pato (eds.), pp. 47–74 | Chapter
This article analyses Spanish concatenative compounds, whose constituents are of the same lexical category and structural hierarchy (e.g., rojinegro ‘red-black’), focusing in particular on the evolution of their formal features. The first issue considered is the relative frequency of various… read more
2016 Introduction: Addressing the research questions Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas, Moyna, María Irene and Susana Rivera-Mills (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2015 “Is that what I sound like when I speak?”: Attitudes towards Spanish, English, and code-switching in two Texas border towns Spanish in Context 12:2, pp. 177–198 | Article
This study investigates language attitudes towards English, Spanish and code-switching in two Texas border cities (Laredo and Edinburg) by means of a matched guise test with three attribute dimensions (solidarity, status, and personal appeal). It was found that there were no significant overall… read more
2008 Representaciones dramáticas de una variable lingüística: Tuteo y voseo en obras de teatro del Río de la Plata (1886–1911) Spanish in Context 5:1, pp. 64–88 | Article
El presente estudio es un análisis cuantitativo de las representaciones teatrales del tratamiento de segunda persona del singular en el español del Río de la Plata a comienzos del siglo XX. Se basa en dieciocho obras de teatro escritas entre 1886 y 1911, en cada una de las cuales se contabilizaron… read more