Javier Morras
List of John Benjamins publications in which Javier Morras is involved.
Articles
2026 Conceptual metonymy in the use of cardinal numbers in Spanish and English Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond, Portero-Muñoz, Carmen, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto (eds.), pp. 145–170 | Article
The article explores the relationship between conceptual metonymy and the use of cardinal numbers in Spanish and English. Real instances of language have been used to describe this conceptual relation. The metonymic mappings identified in the use of some cardinal numbers exhibit different levels… read more
2021 Unweaving the embodied nature of English temporal prepositions: The case of at Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1, pp. 60–84 | Article
The metaphor time is space (Lakoff & Johnson 1999) and the pervasiveness of metaphor and image-schematic structure in human conceptualization (Johnson 1987; Hampe 2005) have been widely accepted among cognitive scientists as constructs that help explain non-spatial and temporal linguistic… read more
2019 Conceptual structuring of the English prepositions between, among, and amid, and their Spanish equivalent entre: A cognitive linguistic approach to spatial, non-spatial and temporal scenes Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:1, pp. 103–129 | Article
Spatial language has been traditionally understood as encoding purely spatio-geometric information. However, much more than that must be considered for a full account of the semantics of space. It turns out that spatial arrangements manifest functional consequences which are non-spatial, so… read more