Damián Vergara Wilson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Damián Vergara Wilson is involved.
Articles
2018 Gradient conventionalization of the Spanish expression of ‘becoming’ quedar(se) + ADJ in seven centuries Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist (eds.), pp. 175–198 | Chapter
The present chapter focuses on the evolution of semantic categories in the Spanish expression of ‘becoming’ quedar(se) + ADJ and examines how this analogical extension is affected by the conventionalization of prominent category members. To this end, this study operationalizes conventionalization… read more
2016 Using the variationist comparative method to examine the role of language contact in synthetic and periphrastic verbs in Spanish Spanish in Context 13:3, pp. 394–419 | Article
Language contact and linguistic change are thought to go hand in hand (e.g. Silva-Corvalán 1994), however there are methodological obstacles, such as collecting data at different points in time or the availability of monolingual data for comparison, that make claims about language change tenuous.… read more
2009 From ‘remaining’ to ‘becoming’ in Spanish: The role of prefabs in the development of the construction quedar(se) + ADJECTIVE
This study is based on Bybee & Eddington (2006), a synchronic study of the exemplar clusters formed by adjectives in four Spanish verb + adjective combinations used as constructions to denote a change of state (ponerse + adj, hacerse + adj, quedarse + adj, & volverse + adj). One main goal of the… read more