Mercedes Montes de Oca Vega
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mercedes Montes de Oca Vega is involved.
Articles
2017 Chapter 9. The impact of language contact in Nahuatl couplets Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 187–208 | Chapter
In the pre-Hispanic period, couplets were widely used in ritual or ceremonial contexts, and they prevailed in the contact period through their use in evangelical texts to convey a more indigenous character to evangelization materials. Nahuatl couplets were recreated to achieve a better reception… read more
2012 Are Nahuatl riddles endangered conceptualizations? Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 123–144 | Article
This paper offers a comparative analysis of two corpora of shared riddles from the sixteenth century and present day Nahuatl. Riddles are a form of speech play practiced in Nahua communities since pre-Hispanic times. Conceptualization behind riddles has been preserved, has changed and has also been… read more