Renata Enghels
Biographic Data
| ID | 1023033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renata Enghels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renata |
| FAMILY NAME | Enghels |
| SIGNATURE | ENGHELS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7785-0009 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lengua, cognición y discurso: Una mirada al español desde perspectivas funcionalistas y cognitivas – entrevista con la Profesora Dra. Renata Enghels
Esta entrevista se centra en la trayectoria y las contribuciones académicas de la Profesora Doctora Renata Enghels en el campo de la lingüística hispánica y románica, con énfasis en los estudios del lenguaje desde una perspectiva funcionalista y cognitiva. El propósito de la entrevista es comprender cómo sus enfoques teóricos y metodológicos contribuyen al análisis de fenómenos discursivos en el español contemporáneo, así como explorar las implic…
Variable Agreement Constructions in Spanish: Between Perception Modalities and Conceptual Foregrounding
This article investigates how cognitive and grammatical mechanisms shape variable singular–plural agreement in Spanish perception–verb constructions, a domain where speakers alternate between agreement with the postverbal NP2 and agreement with the infinitival complement. Building on usage-based and cognitive linguistics approaches, this study examines whether factors related to perceptual modality and conceptual salience underlie these alternati…
The diachronic development of the inchoative construction in Spanish: A case of constructionalization
This study reconstructs the constructionalization process of the inchoative construction in Spanish, both from a formal and semantic viewpoint, operating within the framework of (Diachronic) Construction Grammar. The statistical method of VNC (Variability-based Neighbor Clustering) is implemented in order to obtain a bottom-up periodization of the evolution of the schema. Formally, the study maps the variation between a , de and en in the preposi…
Intensification Strategies in English–Spanish Bilingual Speech: Examining Lexical and Morphological Markers in Miami Bilinguals’ Discourse
This paper investigates the speech variety of the English–Spanish community of Miami, which features a high degree of English–Spanish bilingualism. Specifically, it explores intensification, a site of analytic–synthetic conflict between English and Spanish grammars. English predominantly uses lexical-analytic strategies (e.g., very beautiful, a big house) for intensification, whereas Spanish employs more morphological-synthetic markers (e.g., gua…
The many guises of productivity: A case-study of Spanish inchoative constructions
This study investigates the productivity of a family of inchoative constructions in (Peninsular) Spanish ( empezar a + inf., echar a + inf.) and the way it correlates with semantic openness. Productivity is defined as lexical openness of a slot (here the infinitive) of a construction. A range of productivity measures (e.g., type/token ratio, hapax/token ratio, and other parameters related to the frequency of the most frequent types) are discussed…
Enhancing Code-Switching Research Through Comparable Corpora: Introducing the El Paso Bilingual Corpus
Research on language contact outcomes, such as code-switching, continues to face theoretical and methodological challenges, particularly due to the difficulty of comparing findings across studies that use divergent data collection methods. Accordingly, scholars have emphasized the need for publicly available and comparable bilingual corpora. This paper introduces the El Paso Bilingual Corpus, a new Spanish-English bilingual corpus recorded in El …
Introduction to the Special Issue Grammaticalization across Languages, Levels, and Frameworks
Over the last few decades, we have witnessed a proliferation in studies on phenomena such as grammaticalization (cf
From Motion to Causation: The Diachrony of the Spanish Causative Constructions with traer ('Bring') and llevar ('Take)
This paper describes the historical evolution of the Spanish causative micro-constructions with the motion verbs llevar ('take') and traer ('bring') (e.g., el miedo llevó al ladrón a cometer un error, 'the fear caused the thief to make a mistake'). In order to reconstruct the historical development of these micro-constructions between the 13th and 20th centuries, all causative uses of llevar and traer were extracted from the Corpus del Diccionari…
The persuasive potential of metaphor when framing Mexican migrants and migration: A comparative study of the US written press
Research into the persuasive quality of metaphor has a long standing tradition, with the topic of migration embodying one of its pet discourse genres. Yet, only few studies have recognized the existence of identical metaphors occurring across the ideological divide. The present paper explores the way in which three US-based news outlets with broadly different group alignments and overall attitudes in relation to the issue of migration wield metap…
Discourse-level phenomena in construction grammars
status: Published
Monitoring 21st-Century Real-Time Language Change in Spanish Youth Speech
In recent decades, youth language has become one of the preferred research areas in sociolinguistics, not only because of its non-normative nature but mostly because it is recognized as a catalyst for language change. Since adolescents aspire to create and safeguard an in-group identity, they constantly generate innovative linguistic forms. However, few studies have empirically monitored the speed at which linguistic innovations are introduced in…
Los datos en Twitter como fuente del discurso oral coloquial: Estudio de caso del marcador discursivo 'en plan'
En las últimas décadas, se ha observado un interés creciente por fenómenos lingüísticos típicos del español oral conversacional. Sin embargo, tal expansión del campo de investigación contrasta fuertemente con la disponibilidad restringida de datos empíricos orales. Como reacción, los investigadores han recurrido a bancos de datos alternativos, como los medios sociales. El presente artículo contribuye a la pregunta de si el lenguaje usado en Twitt…
Age-based variation and patterns of recent language change: A case-study of morphological and lexical intensifiers in Spanish
A micro-typological perspective on resultative secondary predicates: The Case of Nomination Verb Constructions
On the edge between nouns and verbs. The heterogeneous behavior of Spanish deverbal nominalizations empirically verified
Sobre la naturaleza de los corpus y la comparabilidad de resultados en lingüística histórica: Estudio de caso del marcador pragmático sabes
o Este artículo contribuye a la discusión sobre el valor de los datos empíricos en el campo de la lingüística histórica. En la literatura se han discutido ampliamente los problemas metodológicos derivados del hecho de que los análisis diacrónicos estén basados casi exclusivamente en fuentes escritas. Este problema general de la representatividad de los datos se acentúa cuando se aborda el estudio histórico de fenómenos típicos de la oralidad, com…
Measuring the degree of near-synonymy of Spanish verbs of putting: A multivariate corpus analysis of poner and meter
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 speaker’s choice between the two verbs. It is investigated whether and to what extent the choice is governed by a set of variables related to the natur…
On the crosslinguistic equivalence of sentir(e) in Romance languages: A contrastive study in semantics
Recent linguistic studies on perception have focused mainly on verbs referring to the dominant visual and auditory modalities, (e.g. English see/look and hear/listen) and have largely ignored the minor verbs. The present paper seeks to fill this gap by comparing the complex semantics of the cognate verbs sentir(e) in three Romance languages, namely Spanish, French and Italian. Because the objective study of semantics is a problematic issue, we pa…
The syntactic position of the perceived participant as indicator of the internal structure of the Spanish and French infinitival complement
In most Indo-European languages, the direct perception of an event is represented by the construction [perceiver NP1 + perception verb + perceived participant NP2 + infinitive]. In Spanish and in French, the position of the perceived participant varies: it can be anteposed or postposed to the infinitive
Age-based variation and patterns of recent language change: A case-study of morphological and lexical intensifiers in Spanish
The syntactic position of the perceived participant as indicator of the internal structure of the Spanish and French infinitival complement
In most Indo-European languages, the direct perception of an event is represented by the construction [perceiver NP1 + perception verb + perceived participant NP2 + infinitive]. In Spanish and in French, the position of the perceived participant varies: it can be anteposed or postposed to the infinitive
Monitoring 21st-Century Real-Time Language Change in Spanish Youth Speech
In recent decades, youth language has become one of the preferred research areas in sociolinguistics, not only because of its non-normative nature but mostly because it is recognized as a catalyst for language change. Since adolescents aspire to create and safeguard an in-group identity, they constantly generate innovative linguistic forms. However, few studies have empirically monitored the speed at which linguistic innovations are introduced in…
A micro-typological perspective on resultative secondary predicates: The Case of Nomination Verb Constructions
On the edge between nouns and verbs. The heterogeneous behavior of Spanish deverbal nominalizations empirically verified
On the crosslinguistic equivalence of sentir(e) in Romance languages: A contrastive study in semantics
Recent linguistic studies on perception have focused mainly on verbs referring to the dominant visual and auditory modalities, (e.g. English see/look and hear/listen) and have largely ignored the minor verbs. The present paper seeks to fill this gap by comparing the complex semantics of the cognate verbs sentir(e) in three Romance languages, namely Spanish, French and Italian. Because the objective study of semantics is a problematic issue, we pa…
The syntactic position of the perceived participant as indicator of the internal structure of the Spanish and French infinitival complement
In most Indo-European languages, the direct perception of an event is represented by the construction [perceiver NP1 + perception verb + perceived participant NP2 + infinitive]. In Spanish and in French, the position of the perceived participant varies: it can be anteposed or postposed to the infinitive
On the crosslinguistic equivalence of sentir(e) in Romance languages: A contrastive study in semantics
Recent linguistic studies on perception have focused mainly on verbs referring to the dominant visual and auditory modalities, (e.g. English see/look and hear/listen) and have largely ignored the minor verbs. The present paper seeks to fill this gap by comparing the complex semantics of the cognate verbs sentir(e) in three Romance languages, namely Spanish, French and Italian. Because the objective study of semantics is a problematic issue, we pa…
Measuring the degree of near-synonymy of Spanish verbs of putting: A multivariate corpus analysis of poner and meter
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 speaker’s choice between the two verbs. It is investigated whether and to what extent the choice is governed by a set of variables related to the natur…
Sobre la naturaleza de los corpus y la comparabilidad de resultados en lingüística histórica: Estudio de caso del marcador pragmático sabes
o Este artículo contribuye a la discusión sobre el valor de los datos empíricos en el campo de la lingüística histórica. En la literatura se han discutido ampliamente los problemas metodológicos derivados del hecho de que los análisis diacrónicos estén basados casi exclusivamente en fuentes escritas. Este problema general de la representatividad de los datos se acentúa cuando se aborda el estudio histórico de fenómenos típicos de la oralidad, com…
On the edge between nouns and verbs. The heterogeneous behavior of Spanish deverbal nominalizations empirically verified
Los datos en Twitter como fuente del discurso oral coloquial: Estudio de caso del marcador discursivo 'en plan'
En las últimas décadas, se ha observado un interés creciente por fenómenos lingüísticos típicos del español oral conversacional. Sin embargo, tal expansión del campo de investigación contrasta fuertemente con la disponibilidad restringida de datos empíricos orales. Como reacción, los investigadores han recurrido a bancos de datos alternativos, como los medios sociales. El presente artículo contribuye a la pregunta de si el lenguaje usado en Twitt…
Age-based variation and patterns of recent language change: A case-study of morphological and lexical intensifiers in Spanish
A micro-typological perspective on resultative secondary predicates: The Case of Nomination Verb Constructions
Discourse-level phenomena in construction grammars
status: Published
Monitoring 21st-Century Real-Time Language Change in Spanish Youth Speech
In recent decades, youth language has become one of the preferred research areas in sociolinguistics, not only because of its non-normative nature but mostly because it is recognized as a catalyst for language change. Since adolescents aspire to create and safeguard an in-group identity, they constantly generate innovative linguistic forms. However, few studies have empirically monitored the speed at which linguistic innovations are introduced in…
The persuasive potential of metaphor when framing Mexican migrants and migration: A comparative study of the US written press
Research into the persuasive quality of metaphor has a long standing tradition, with the topic of migration embodying one of its pet discourse genres. Yet, only few studies have recognized the existence of identical metaphors occurring across the ideological divide. The present paper explores the way in which three US-based news outlets with broadly different group alignments and overall attitudes in relation to the issue of migration wield metap…
From Motion to Causation: The Diachrony of the Spanish Causative Constructions with traer ('Bring') and llevar ('Take)
This paper describes the historical evolution of the Spanish causative micro-constructions with the motion verbs llevar ('take') and traer ('bring') (e.g., el miedo llevó al ladrón a cometer un error, 'the fear caused the thief to make a mistake'). In order to reconstruct the historical development of these micro-constructions between the 13th and 20th centuries, all causative uses of llevar and traer were extracted from the Corpus del Diccionari…
Introduction to the Special Issue Grammaticalization across Languages, Levels, and Frameworks
Over the last few decades, we have witnessed a proliferation in studies on phenomena such as grammaticalization (cf
The diachronic development of the inchoative construction in Spanish: A case of constructionalization
This study reconstructs the constructionalization process of the inchoative construction in Spanish, both from a formal and semantic viewpoint, operating within the framework of (Diachronic) Construction Grammar. The statistical method of VNC (Variability-based Neighbor Clustering) is implemented in order to obtain a bottom-up periodization of the evolution of the schema. Formally, the study maps the variation between a , de and en in the preposi…
Intensification Strategies in English–Spanish Bilingual Speech: Examining Lexical and Morphological Markers in Miami Bilinguals’ Discourse
This paper investigates the speech variety of the English–Spanish community of Miami, which features a high degree of English–Spanish bilingualism. Specifically, it explores intensification, a site of analytic–synthetic conflict between English and Spanish grammars. English predominantly uses lexical-analytic strategies (e.g., very beautiful, a big house) for intensification, whereas Spanish employs more morphological-synthetic markers (e.g., gua…
The many guises of productivity: A case-study of Spanish inchoative constructions
This study investigates the productivity of a family of inchoative constructions in (Peninsular) Spanish ( empezar a + inf., echar a + inf.) and the way it correlates with semantic openness. Productivity is defined as lexical openness of a slot (here the infinitive) of a construction. A range of productivity measures (e.g., type/token ratio, hapax/token ratio, and other parameters related to the frequency of the most frequent types) are discussed…
Enhancing Code-Switching Research Through Comparable Corpora: Introducing the El Paso Bilingual Corpus
Research on language contact outcomes, such as code-switching, continues to face theoretical and methodological challenges, particularly due to the difficulty of comparing findings across studies that use divergent data collection methods. Accordingly, scholars have emphasized the need for publicly available and comparable bilingual corpora. This paper introduces the El Paso Bilingual Corpus, a new Spanish-English bilingual corpus recorded in El …
Lengua, cognición y discurso: Una mirada al español desde perspectivas funcionalistas y cognitivas – entrevista con la Profesora Dra. Renata Enghels
Esta entrevista se centra en la trayectoria y las contribuciones académicas de la Profesora Doctora Renata Enghels en el campo de la lingüística hispánica y románica, con énfasis en los estudios del lenguaje desde una perspectiva funcionalista y cognitiva. El propósito de la entrevista es comprender cómo sus enfoques teóricos y metodológicos contribuyen al análisis de fenómenos discursivos en el español contemporáneo, así como explorar las implic…
Variable Agreement Constructions in Spanish: Between Perception Modalities and Conceptual Foregrounding
This article investigates how cognitive and grammatical mechanisms shape variable singular–plural agreement in Spanish perception–verb constructions, a domain where speakers alternate between agreement with the postverbal NP2 and agreement with the infinitival complement. Building on usage-based and cognitive linguistics approaches, this study examines whether factors related to perceptual modality and conceptual salience underlie these alternati…
Linguistics (14 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)