Lucía Loureiro‐porto
Biographic Data
| ID | 198454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucía Loureiro‐porto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucía |
| FAMILY NAME | Loureiro‐porto |
| SIGNATURE | PORTO L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de les Illes Balears |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9502-6112 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A diachronic corpus-pragmatic approach to democratization
Democratization is often invoked as an explanatory factor for diachronic linguistic developments. We believe that at the root of democratization often lies the pragmatic negotiation of power relations, whereby a more democratic use of language can reduce the distance between addresser and addressee. This article examines the evolution of power relations in the New York Times editorials from 1860 to 1979 as represented in COHA. After a quantitativ…
(Un)democratic Epicene Pronouns in Asian Englishes
The search for gender equality in language use is one of the most frequently cited cases of linguistic democratization (e.g., Farrelly & Seoane 2012:394). At the grammatical level, this process implies, for example, that pronouns such as generic he used with epicene antecedents are being replaced by singular they or by combined he or she, at least in inner-circle varieties of English. However, outer-circle varieties remain underexplored in this r…
Democratization and Gender-neutrality in English(es)
“Democratization” and “gender-neutrality” are two concepts commonly used in recent studies on language variation. While both concepts link linguistic phenomena to sociocultural changes, the extent to which they overlap and/or interact has not been studied in detail. In particular, not much is known about how linguistic changes related to democratization and gender-neutrality spread across registers or varieties of English, as well as whether spea…
World Englishes and grammatical variation
Less than three decades after the launch of the International Corpus of English project, corpus‐based research on world Englishes has enjoyed continued success. A wide variety of corpora and databases are now available to researchers, which allow for the exploration of very large datasets of varieties of English all over the globe, including historical data, as found in diachronic corpora that have recently been released for varieties other than …
Democratization of Englishes
The term democratization has been used in recent linguistic research to describe how specific linguistic changes can be linked to changes in sociocultural norms. This broad definition, however, does not fully capture the essence of this phenomenon or explain how it differs from other processes of language change. Other key issues in this area of research include what the cause-effect relationship is between linguistic change and social change, an…
Grammaticalization of semi-modals of necessity in Asian Englishes
The decline of central modal must and the increase in frequency of the semi-modals have (got) to, need (to) , and want to is one of the most conspicuous grammatical changes that inner-circle varieties of English underwent in the second half of the 20th century. Such a replacement correlates with the increasing grammaticalization of the semi-modals in terms of semantic and quantitative developments. The current paper explores the differential gram…
Language contact in Gibraltar English
The variety of English used in Gibraltar has been in contact with a number of European languages, such as Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Arabic (Moyer, 1998: 216; Suárez-Gómez, 2012: 1746), for more than 300 years. Studies of this variety have traditionally been based on interviews and observation (e.g. Moyer, 1993, 1998; Cal Varela, 1996; Levey, 2008 2015; Weston, 2011, 2013, etc.), and a detailed morphosyntactic description is yet to be published…
ICE vs GloWbE
ICE and GloWbE are the two main corpora available for the study of world Englishes, and as such they share several features. However, they also differ in a number of respects owing to the different techniques adopted during compilation: while ICE is a traditional corpus with 32 text types represented, GloWbE only contains material from the Internet. This article compares the two corpora from a number of perspectives: (i) frequency and collocation…
Agent-based models of language competition
This article uses computer simulations as a means of assessing two different models for the competition between two languages from the interdisciplinary perspective of complex systems. These models allow for the analysis of the role of bilingual speakers and they consider two of the basic factors determining the use of each language: their relative prestige and the language loyalty of their speakers. Here we assess the effect of these parameters …
Mathematical models meet linguistic data and vice versa
Linguistics in the 21st century is faced with a series of methodological innovations that have opened up new ways of describing language: experimental methods allow us to measure the activity of the human brain and to relate this activity to linguistic behavior and ability (Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Schlesewsky 2009); new discoveries in genetics and in evolutionary biology show how certain genes play crucial roles in our language faculty and all…
On the relationship between subjectification, grammaticalisation and constructions
The terms subjectification, intersubjectification and construction are very often used in relation to grammaticalisation, although the relationship between them is not always clear. Subjectification is said to occur both within grammaticalisation and out of it. Constructions, in turn, have recently been found to play a key role in grammaticalisation, to the point that it is now generally accepted that before an item is grammaticalised the constru…
More on the idiosyncrasy of Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwit
Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwit (fl 1340), a (Kentish) Middle English translation of a French treatise, shows interesting idiosyncratic features in the areas of orthography and lexis (cf. Scahill, “Dan Michel: Fossil or innovator?”, John Benjamins, 2002, for example). From a syntactic perspective, a preliminary overview of the text reveals that Dan Michel has a strong preference for the verb of necessity bihoven (>PDE behove, see MED s.v. bihoven)…
The Fate of Bilingualism in a Model of Language Competition
ICE vs GloWbE
ICE and GloWbE are the two main corpora available for the study of world Englishes, and as such they share several features. However, they also differ in a number of respects owing to the different techniques adopted during compilation: while ICE is a traditional corpus with 32 text types represented, GloWbE only contains material from the Internet. This article compares the two corpora from a number of perspectives: (i) frequency and collocation…
Democratization of Englishes
The term democratization has been used in recent linguistic research to describe how specific linguistic changes can be linked to changes in sociocultural norms. This broad definition, however, does not fully capture the essence of this phenomenon or explain how it differs from other processes of language change. Other key issues in this area of research include what the cause-effect relationship is between linguistic change and social change, an…
Grammaticalization of semi-modals of necessity in Asian Englishes
The decline of central modal must and the increase in frequency of the semi-modals have (got) to, need (to) , and want to is one of the most conspicuous grammatical changes that inner-circle varieties of English underwent in the second half of the 20th century. Such a replacement correlates with the increasing grammaticalization of the semi-modals in terms of semantic and quantitative developments. The current paper explores the differential gram…
On the relationship between subjectification, grammaticalisation and constructions
The terms subjectification, intersubjectification and construction are very often used in relation to grammaticalisation, although the relationship between them is not always clear. Subjectification is said to occur both within grammaticalisation and out of it. Constructions, in turn, have recently been found to play a key role in grammaticalisation, to the point that it is now generally accepted that before an item is grammaticalised the constru…
The Fate of Bilingualism in a Model of Language Competition
More on the idiosyncrasy of Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwit
Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwit (fl 1340), a (Kentish) Middle English translation of a French treatise, shows interesting idiosyncratic features in the areas of orthography and lexis (cf. Scahill, “Dan Michel: Fossil or innovator?”, John Benjamins, 2002, for example). From a syntactic perspective, a preliminary overview of the text reveals that Dan Michel has a strong preference for the verb of necessity bihoven (>PDE behove, see MED s.v. bihoven)…
On the relationship between subjectification, grammaticalisation and constructions
The terms subjectification, intersubjectification and construction are very often used in relation to grammaticalisation, although the relationship between them is not always clear. Subjectification is said to occur both within grammaticalisation and out of it. Constructions, in turn, have recently been found to play a key role in grammaticalisation, to the point that it is now generally accepted that before an item is grammaticalised the constru…
Agent-based models of language competition
This article uses computer simulations as a means of assessing two different models for the competition between two languages from the interdisciplinary perspective of complex systems. These models allow for the analysis of the role of bilingual speakers and they consider two of the basic factors determining the use of each language: their relative prestige and the language loyalty of their speakers. Here we assess the effect of these parameters …
Mathematical models meet linguistic data and vice versa
Linguistics in the 21st century is faced with a series of methodological innovations that have opened up new ways of describing language: experimental methods allow us to measure the activity of the human brain and to relate this activity to linguistic behavior and ability (Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Schlesewsky 2009); new discoveries in genetics and in evolutionary biology show how certain genes play crucial roles in our language faculty and all…
Language contact in Gibraltar English
The variety of English used in Gibraltar has been in contact with a number of European languages, such as Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Arabic (Moyer, 1998: 216; Suárez-Gómez, 2012: 1746), for more than 300 years. Studies of this variety have traditionally been based on interviews and observation (e.g. Moyer, 1993, 1998; Cal Varela, 1996; Levey, 2008 2015; Weston, 2011, 2013, etc.), and a detailed morphosyntactic description is yet to be published…
ICE vs GloWbE
ICE and GloWbE are the two main corpora available for the study of world Englishes, and as such they share several features. However, they also differ in a number of respects owing to the different techniques adopted during compilation: while ICE is a traditional corpus with 32 text types represented, GloWbE only contains material from the Internet. This article compares the two corpora from a number of perspectives: (i) frequency and collocation…
Grammaticalization of semi-modals of necessity in Asian Englishes
The decline of central modal must and the increase in frequency of the semi-modals have (got) to, need (to) , and want to is one of the most conspicuous grammatical changes that inner-circle varieties of English underwent in the second half of the 20th century. Such a replacement correlates with the increasing grammaticalization of the semi-modals in terms of semantic and quantitative developments. The current paper explores the differential gram…
(Un)democratic Epicene Pronouns in Asian Englishes
The search for gender equality in language use is one of the most frequently cited cases of linguistic democratization (e.g., Farrelly & Seoane 2012:394). At the grammatical level, this process implies, for example, that pronouns such as generic he used with epicene antecedents are being replaced by singular they or by combined he or she, at least in inner-circle varieties of English. However, outer-circle varieties remain underexplored in this r…
Democratization and Gender-neutrality in English(es)
“Democratization” and “gender-neutrality” are two concepts commonly used in recent studies on language variation. While both concepts link linguistic phenomena to sociocultural changes, the extent to which they overlap and/or interact has not been studied in detail. In particular, not much is known about how linguistic changes related to democratization and gender-neutrality spread across registers or varieties of English, as well as whether spea…
World Englishes and grammatical variation
Less than three decades after the launch of the International Corpus of English project, corpus‐based research on world Englishes has enjoyed continued success. A wide variety of corpora and databases are now available to researchers, which allow for the exploration of very large datasets of varieties of English all over the globe, including historical data, as found in diachronic corpora that have recently been released for varieties other than …
Democratization of Englishes
The term democratization has been used in recent linguistic research to describe how specific linguistic changes can be linked to changes in sociocultural norms. This broad definition, however, does not fully capture the essence of this phenomenon or explain how it differs from other processes of language change. Other key issues in this area of research include what the cause-effect relationship is between linguistic change and social change, an…
A diachronic corpus-pragmatic approach to democratization
Democratization is often invoked as an explanatory factor for diachronic linguistic developments. We believe that at the root of democratization often lies the pragmatic negotiation of power relations, whereby a more democratic use of language can reduce the distance between addresser and addressee. This article examines the evolution of power relations in the New York Times editorials from 1860 to 1979 as represented in COHA. After a quantitativ…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (12 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · History (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Democracy (4 works)