Jesus Francisco Olguín-Martínez
Biographic Data
| ID | 1666580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesus Francisco Olguín-Martínez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesus Francisco |
| FAMILY NAME | Olguín-Martínez |
| SIGNATURE | OLGUÍN-MARTÍNEZ J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4555-4213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The interaction of irrealis markers and blocking effects in counterfactual conditionals
There are languages in which the irrealis domain is split up into situations that may potentially occur and counterfactual situations. In these languages, one marker is only used for expressing potential situations (weak irrealis) and another marker is only used for expressing counterfactual situations (strong irrealis). Moreover, there are languages that only have either weak or strong irrealis markers. For languages containing both weak and str…
The similative-pretence alternating pair and filler-slot relations
The present paper investigates the similative-pretence alternating pair in Mexican Spanish ( como/igual que and como si constructions) based on the analysis of 1362 instances from The Corpus del Español NOW (News on the Web) corpus. We apply a revised version of distinctive collexeme analysis to our concordance data to explore the variety of different verbs that can occur in the first slot of similative and pretence constructions. Specifically, w…
Exceptive constructions in Huasteca Nahuatl
The paper explores exceptive constructions (e.g., all my family went to the wedding except Mark ) in Huasteca Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan). It is shown that connected and free exceptives have developed intriguing discourse-pragmatic functions that have not been identified by previous studies. While connected exceptives (e.g., everyone except Pedro went to the meeting ) indicate a surprising situation, free exceptives (e.g., everyone went to the meeting …
The link between syntax, semantics, discourse, and lexicon in counteridenticals
The present study goes beyond traditional usage-based work in that it pays close attention not only to the interaction of lexicon and syntax in language use, but also to how other analytic layers of analysis (e.g., discourse) can influence the compatibility of lexemes in particular slots of constructional schemas. To investigate this domain, we examine counteridentical constructions (e.g., if I were you, I would do it ) in a dataset of more than …
A cross-linguistic analysis of cross-clausal associations
It has been shown that linguistic features of main and dependent clauses in complex sentence constructions may show different degrees of association strength giving rise to a number of cross-clausal associations. While this domain has been explored for the most part in corpus-based studies in individual languages, it has received little attention from a typological perspective. The present study makes inroads into this territory by exploring cros…
Temporal ‘since’ constructions in cross-linguistic perspective
The paper offers an analysis of the cross-linguistic variation in the expression of clausal temporal ‘since’ relations (e.g., I have been working since you arrived ) in a sample of 59 languages. First, the investigation explores whether clausal temporal ‘since’ constructions bear formal resemblance to nominal temporal ‘since’ constructions (e.g., It has been raining since yesterday ), nominal beginning-to-end constructions (e.g., They will sleep …
Semantically negative adverbial clause-linkage
One construction that has traditionally been neglected in the typological study of clause-linkage is that built on ‘let alone’ (e.g., the baby can’t even talk, let alone walk ). The present study explores this construction in a convenience sample of 47 languages. There are languages in which ‘let alone’ clauses appear not only with a clause-linking device, but also with an optional standard negative marker. Moreover, there are languages in which …
The interaction of standard negation in clauses of substitution
This paper explores clauses of substitution (e.g. instead of relaxing on the beach, he went to a concert ) in a sample of forty-six languages. It is shown that clauses of substitution marked with monofunctional conjunctions or monofunctional converbs may not occur with standard negative markers. Clauses of substitution appearing with polyfunctional conjunctions or polyfunctional converbs may occur with obligatory standard negative markers. In the…
‘Until’ constructions and expletive negation in Huasteca Nahuatl
A number of works have explored expletive negation in clause-linkage constructions. Most of them have shown that this type of negative marker can be omitted from the adverbial clause without affecting the interpretation holding between clauses. The study shows, based on the analysis of natural discourse data, that expletive negation has developed an intriguing discourse function in three types of ‘until’ constructions in Huasteca Nahuatl: ‘not...…
Counterfactual conditional strategies in some Amazonian languages
Studies on individual Amazonian languages have shown that these languages can contribute to informing and refining our theories of counterfactual conditional constructions. Still missing, however, is an attempt at exploring this complex sentence construction across different genetic units of the Amazonia in a single study. The paper explores counterfactual conditionals in a sample of 24 Amazonian languages. Special attention is paid to the range …
The intertwining of discourse, syntax, and lexicon in language use
The paper analyzes pleonastic conditionals (e.g., sweetheart, I understand. If you have to go, you have to go) in Huasteca Nahuatl, an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Mexico. Based on conversational data, it is demonstrated that pleonastic conditionals in Huasteca Nahuatl have different discourse-pragmatic functions, such as surprise, disagreement, and indifference, etc. Moreover, it is argued that the different discourse-pragmatic functions of pl…
‘Until’ clauses in typological perspective
Based on a sample of 218 languages, the paper shows that most languages tend to use conjunctions and converbs for expressing ‘until’. In a number of languages, these markers appear to be diachronically connected to case markers (e.g. dative case markers), verbs (e.g. ‘to arrive’), nouns (e.g. ‘edge’), and adverb(ial)s meaning ‘only’. Also discussed are other rare strategies, which seem to show clear areal patterns. In particular, some languages f…
Precedence clauses in the world’s languages
Large-scale typological work on negation has so far ignored negation in adverbial clause-linkage. The present work makes inroads into this territory by analyzing the world-wide cross-linguistic variation in the expression of negation in precedence clauses (e.g. ‘before he arrived, we had already gone home’) in a variety sample of 155 languages. The research demonstrates that even when languages employ a clause-linking marker for conveying tempora…
‘Without V-ing’ clauses
This investigation offers an analysis of crosslinguistic variation in the expression of clausal negative concomitance (e.g. ‘he slept without using a pillow’) in a sample of 65 languages, showing that most languages in the sample tend to use conjunctions and converbs for indicating clausal negative concomitance. The discussion of clause-linkage patterns reveals that most languages have monofunctional devices for signaling clausal negative concomi…
Areality of clause-linkage
The consecutive construction was once thought to be unique to African languages. Subsequent work has demonstrated its existence in languages spoken in different parts of the world (e.g., Australia and Oceania). Intriguingly, it often occurs in areal clusters. Its areality is a puzzle, because such constructions are deeply embedded in grammars (i.e., marked with affixes, clitics, or conjunctions), and the forms of the markers themselves are not sh…
Contact-Induced Language Change
It is now clear that languages not-genetically related can come to share syntactic structures that were not necessarily borrowed directly in their modern forms. Although it can be challenging to spot these structures, striking similarities in certain patterns and in fine details of usage may shed light on this process. Not only may spotting the patterns be a difficult task, but also establishing the source of diffusion of a trait (i.e., who passe…
The contribution of amazonian languages to the typology of purpose clauses
This investigation offers an analysis of the variation in the expression of purpose relations in a sample of 49 Amazonian languages. The most common strategies are conjunctions and converbs. Interestingly, in a number of Amazonian languages, positive purpose meanings are expressed with a conjunction or a converb in combination with other morphosyntactic properties. We briefly examine the areality of positive purpose clause-linkage patterns in fou…
Adverbial clauses in Veracruz Huasteca Nahuatl from a functional-typological approach
This paper analyses adverbial clauses in Veracruz Huasteca Nahuatl (vhn), a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Mexico. We argue that the formal properties of adverbial clauses in vhn are motivated by general functional principles, particularly, their semantic values. We address seven semantic relations: temporal precedence, temporal subsequence, temporal simultaneity, cause/reason, purpose, result, and spatial relations. We support the analysis not o…
Contact-Induced Language Change
It is now clear that languages not-genetically related can come to share syntactic structures that were not necessarily borrowed directly in their modern forms. Although it can be challenging to spot these structures, striking similarities in certain patterns and in fine details of usage may shed light on this process. Not only may spotting the patterns be a difficult task, but also establishing the source of diffusion of a trait (i.e., who passe…
The contribution of amazonian languages to the typology of purpose clauses
This investigation offers an analysis of the variation in the expression of purpose relations in a sample of 49 Amazonian languages. The most common strategies are conjunctions and converbs. Interestingly, in a number of Amazonian languages, positive purpose meanings are expressed with a conjunction or a converb in combination with other morphosyntactic properties. We briefly examine the areality of positive purpose clause-linkage patterns in fou…
Adverbial clauses in Veracruz Huasteca Nahuatl from a functional-typological approach
This paper analyses adverbial clauses in Veracruz Huasteca Nahuatl (vhn), a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Mexico. We argue that the formal properties of adverbial clauses in vhn are motivated by general functional principles, particularly, their semantic values. We address seven semantic relations: temporal precedence, temporal subsequence, temporal simultaneity, cause/reason, purpose, result, and spatial relations. We support the analysis not o…
Adverbial clauses in Veracruz Huasteca Nahuatl from a functional-typological approach
This paper analyses adverbial clauses in Veracruz Huasteca Nahuatl (vhn), a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Mexico. We argue that the formal properties of adverbial clauses in vhn are motivated by general functional principles, particularly, their semantic values. We address seven semantic relations: temporal precedence, temporal subsequence, temporal simultaneity, cause/reason, purpose, result, and spatial relations. We support the analysis not o…
Contact-Induced Language Change
It is now clear that languages not-genetically related can come to share syntactic structures that were not necessarily borrowed directly in their modern forms. Although it can be challenging to spot these structures, striking similarities in certain patterns and in fine details of usage may shed light on this process. Not only may spotting the patterns be a difficult task, but also establishing the source of diffusion of a trait (i.e., who passe…
The contribution of amazonian languages to the typology of purpose clauses
This investigation offers an analysis of the variation in the expression of purpose relations in a sample of 49 Amazonian languages. The most common strategies are conjunctions and converbs. Interestingly, in a number of Amazonian languages, positive purpose meanings are expressed with a conjunction or a converb in combination with other morphosyntactic properties. We briefly examine the areality of positive purpose clause-linkage patterns in fou…
‘Until’ clauses in typological perspective
Based on a sample of 218 languages, the paper shows that most languages tend to use conjunctions and converbs for expressing ‘until’. In a number of languages, these markers appear to be diachronically connected to case markers (e.g. dative case markers), verbs (e.g. ‘to arrive’), nouns (e.g. ‘edge’), and adverb(ial)s meaning ‘only’. Also discussed are other rare strategies, which seem to show clear areal patterns. In particular, some languages f…
Precedence clauses in the world’s languages
Large-scale typological work on negation has so far ignored negation in adverbial clause-linkage. The present work makes inroads into this territory by analyzing the world-wide cross-linguistic variation in the expression of negation in precedence clauses (e.g. ‘before he arrived, we had already gone home’) in a variety sample of 155 languages. The research demonstrates that even when languages employ a clause-linking marker for conveying tempora…
‘Without V-ing’ clauses
This investigation offers an analysis of crosslinguistic variation in the expression of clausal negative concomitance (e.g. ‘he slept without using a pillow’) in a sample of 65 languages, showing that most languages in the sample tend to use conjunctions and converbs for indicating clausal negative concomitance. The discussion of clause-linkage patterns reveals that most languages have monofunctional devices for signaling clausal negative concomi…
Areality of clause-linkage
The consecutive construction was once thought to be unique to African languages. Subsequent work has demonstrated its existence in languages spoken in different parts of the world (e.g., Australia and Oceania). Intriguingly, it often occurs in areal clusters. Its areality is a puzzle, because such constructions are deeply embedded in grammars (i.e., marked with affixes, clitics, or conjunctions), and the forms of the markers themselves are not sh…
A cross-linguistic analysis of cross-clausal associations
It has been shown that linguistic features of main and dependent clauses in complex sentence constructions may show different degrees of association strength giving rise to a number of cross-clausal associations. While this domain has been explored for the most part in corpus-based studies in individual languages, it has received little attention from a typological perspective. The present study makes inroads into this territory by exploring cros…
Temporal ‘since’ constructions in cross-linguistic perspective
The paper offers an analysis of the cross-linguistic variation in the expression of clausal temporal ‘since’ relations (e.g., I have been working since you arrived ) in a sample of 59 languages. First, the investigation explores whether clausal temporal ‘since’ constructions bear formal resemblance to nominal temporal ‘since’ constructions (e.g., It has been raining since yesterday ), nominal beginning-to-end constructions (e.g., They will sleep …
Semantically negative adverbial clause-linkage
One construction that has traditionally been neglected in the typological study of clause-linkage is that built on ‘let alone’ (e.g., the baby can’t even talk, let alone walk ). The present study explores this construction in a convenience sample of 47 languages. There are languages in which ‘let alone’ clauses appear not only with a clause-linking device, but also with an optional standard negative marker. Moreover, there are languages in which …
The interaction of standard negation in clauses of substitution
This paper explores clauses of substitution (e.g. instead of relaxing on the beach, he went to a concert ) in a sample of forty-six languages. It is shown that clauses of substitution marked with monofunctional conjunctions or monofunctional converbs may not occur with standard negative markers. Clauses of substitution appearing with polyfunctional conjunctions or polyfunctional converbs may occur with obligatory standard negative markers. In the…
‘Until’ constructions and expletive negation in Huasteca Nahuatl
A number of works have explored expletive negation in clause-linkage constructions. Most of them have shown that this type of negative marker can be omitted from the adverbial clause without affecting the interpretation holding between clauses. The study shows, based on the analysis of natural discourse data, that expletive negation has developed an intriguing discourse function in three types of ‘until’ constructions in Huasteca Nahuatl: ‘not...…
Counterfactual conditional strategies in some Amazonian languages
Studies on individual Amazonian languages have shown that these languages can contribute to informing and refining our theories of counterfactual conditional constructions. Still missing, however, is an attempt at exploring this complex sentence construction across different genetic units of the Amazonia in a single study. The paper explores counterfactual conditionals in a sample of 24 Amazonian languages. Special attention is paid to the range …
The intertwining of discourse, syntax, and lexicon in language use
The paper analyzes pleonastic conditionals (e.g., sweetheart, I understand. If you have to go, you have to go) in Huasteca Nahuatl, an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Mexico. Based on conversational data, it is demonstrated that pleonastic conditionals in Huasteca Nahuatl have different discourse-pragmatic functions, such as surprise, disagreement, and indifference, etc. Moreover, it is argued that the different discourse-pragmatic functions of pl…
The interaction of irrealis markers and blocking effects in counterfactual conditionals
There are languages in which the irrealis domain is split up into situations that may potentially occur and counterfactual situations. In these languages, one marker is only used for expressing potential situations (weak irrealis) and another marker is only used for expressing counterfactual situations (strong irrealis). Moreover, there are languages that only have either weak or strong irrealis markers. For languages containing both weak and str…
The similative-pretence alternating pair and filler-slot relations
The present paper investigates the similative-pretence alternating pair in Mexican Spanish ( como/igual que and como si constructions) based on the analysis of 1362 instances from The Corpus del Español NOW (News on the Web) corpus. We apply a revised version of distinctive collexeme analysis to our concordance data to explore the variety of different verbs that can occur in the first slot of similative and pretence constructions. Specifically, w…
Exceptive constructions in Huasteca Nahuatl
The paper explores exceptive constructions (e.g., all my family went to the wedding except Mark ) in Huasteca Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan). It is shown that connected and free exceptives have developed intriguing discourse-pragmatic functions that have not been identified by previous studies. While connected exceptives (e.g., everyone except Pedro went to the meeting ) indicate a surprising situation, free exceptives (e.g., everyone went to the meeting …
The link between syntax, semantics, discourse, and lexicon in counteridenticals
The present study goes beyond traditional usage-based work in that it pays close attention not only to the interaction of lexicon and syntax in language use, but also to how other analytic layers of analysis (e.g., discourse) can influence the compatibility of lexemes in particular slots of constructional schemas. To investigate this domain, we examine counteridentical constructions (e.g., if I were you, I would do it ) in a dataset of more than …
Linguistics (14 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (14 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Adverbial (6 works) · Sentence (6 works) · Dependent clause (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works)