Andrea Mojedano Batel
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andrea Mojedano Batel is involved.
Articles
2025 Diachronic change in Spanish ‘liking’ constructions: A case of analogical extension through a multiplicity of source constructions Journal of Historical Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
Analyzing quantitative corpus data from the 13th to the 19th centuries, this study applies a usage-based construction grammar approach and an onomasiological approach to the examination of change in argument structure in Spanish verbs of “liking”, focusing on the verb gustar ‘to like.’ This verb… read more
2020 ‘Liking’ constructions in Spanish: The role of frequency and syntactic stimulus in constructional change Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.), pp. 81–106 | Chapter
This study examines the diachronic change in argument structure in Spanish psych-verbs of ‘liking’, with emphasis on the change from nominative-experiencer gustar ‘to like’ to dative-experiencer gustar. While previous studies have looked at factors pertaining to frequency and semantics, this… read more
2018 Chapter 12. “Extraña uno lo que es la tortillas”: A preliminary study of number agreement in Spanish in contact with Purépecha Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, MacDonald, Jonathan E. (ed.), pp. 259–280 | Chapter
Regarding studies of Spanish in contact with Latin American indigenous languages, there has been little research on contact between Spanish and Purépecha, a language isolate from western Mexico. The present paper addresses this lacuna by examining number marking and number agreement in the Spanish… read more