Marie Comer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marie Comer is involved.
2020 Causative and inchoative constructions with poner and meter (‘to put’) in Spanish: A diachronic constructional approach Changes in Meaning and Function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish, Fernández Jaén, Jorge and Herminia Provencio Garrigós (eds.), pp. 21–46 | Chapter
This article documents the historical evolution of the causative and inchoative constructions with the put verbs poner and meter in Spanish. The aim of this case study is to determine how both constructions developed out of the more general abstract caused-motion schema. The analysis is based on… read more
2018 Evaluating grammaticalization and constructional accounts: The development of the inchoative construction with put verbs in Spanish Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar, Coussé, Evie, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson (eds.), pp. 107–133 | Chapter
This article explores the historical development of the inchoative construction in Spanish with the put verbs poner and meter filling the auxiliary verb slot. Previous studies have focused mainly on the syntactic and semantic processes through which full lexical put verbs come to fulfil an… read more
2016 La polisemia de los verbos de colocación: Descripción sincrónica y evolución diacrónica de los cuasi-sinónimos poner / meter y poser / mettre Revue Romane 51:1, pp. 70–94 | Article
This article compares the syntax and semantics of the locative verbs poner and meter in Spanish with their French cognates poser and mettre. In some contexts these lexemes are clearly interchangeable, whereas in others they are not. The purpose of this study is double. First, based on a large… read more
2016 Measuring the degree of near-synonymy of Spanish verbs of putting: A multivariate corpus analysis of poner and meter Functions of Language 23:3, pp. 279–304 | Article
The present article presents a corpus-based study of two near-synonymous verbs in Spanish: the locative verbs of putting poner and meter. Starting from the universal principle of linguistic economy, the paper aims to empirically identify potentially influencing variables that determine the native… read more