Juan Escalona Torres
List of John Benjamins publications in which Juan Escalona Torres is involved.
Article
2023 Tracing semantic change in Portuguese: A distributional approach to adversative connectives Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
This study uses word embeddings to investigate the semantic changes underlying the creation of two adversative connectives in Portuguese, porém and mas ‘but, however’. For porém, we chart its development from an original PP formed by a preposition with a causal meaning (por) and a demonstrative… read more
