Javier Calle Martín
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Javier Calle Martín |
| GIVEN NAMES | Javier Calle |
| FAMILY NAME | Martín |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Málaga |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1040-5979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘They cost me less pains than tragedy does’
Although less and fewer are supposed to have their particular domains for the expression of quantification, this has not always been the case in the history of English. These two quantifiers coexisted in free variation – irrespective of the typology of the noun – down to the eighteenth century. While some scholars have believed that the advent of prescriptivism seemed to specialise their distribution – with fewer being used exclusively for count …
“You spelled ‘spelt’ wrong”
The expression of the past tense in English has been plagued with oddities throughout its history. One example is the morphological duality in verbs like dream, burn and spell. Today, their preterite and participial forms may feature two morphemes, either the regular -ed or the irregular -t. In Present-day English, preference for one paradigm over the other seems to be determined on the grounds of diatopic variation, with American English favouri…
I wish more people would slow down in life’
Present-day English affords two alternative forms for the expression of wish clauses, wish and if only, which are used in free variation to express an unlikely or impossible desire or a regret. Unlike the expression of regrets where the past perfect has become the standard form in the verb phrase, wish clauses allow for the use of alternative forms, thus reshaping the system with subtle differences. Even though the past tense is largely preferred…
‘The night before beg'd ye queens's pardon and his brother's’
The apostrophe was introduced into the English orthographic system by the mid sixteenth century as a printer's mark especially designed ‘for the eye rather than for the ear’ (Sklar 1976: 175; Little 1986: 15). Whereas the uses of the apostrophe today are limited to the Saxon genitive construction ( the woman's book ), to verbal contractions ( you'll ‘you will’ or you're ‘you are’) and to other formulaic expressions ( o'clock ), its early uses als…
Spelling Forms in Competition
One of the problems of English spelling is the dual representation of the so-called ‘eyes’-words, rendered in discourse as - ise and - ize , both with high-frequency verbs such as modernise/modernize and rare coinages, as in burglarise / burglarize , etc. Eyes -words have historically evolved from two different language systems as two different forms with the same meaning, which have eventually come to coincide in their use in English with compet…
A very pleasant, safe, and effectual medicine’
The present paper traces the historical development of the serial comma in the history of English until its eventual decline over the course of the twentieth century. The serial comma (also known as the Oxford comma or Harvard comma) refers to the existence of a pause immediately before the conjunctions and/or (and sometimes nor) in a series of three or more elements in a clause. Although the use of this mark of punctuation is no longer a desider…
On the Rise and Diffusion of New Intensifiers
The intensifiers this and that acquired their intensifying function as a result of a grammaticalization process by means of which deictic demonstratives became degree adverbs with the meaning “to this or that extent, so much, so.” The phenomenon spread in the early nineteenth century as a typical resource of spoken English, and since then these intensifiers have found a niche in the written domain by imposing a scalar construal on adjectives for …
Suffixes in Competition
This paper presents a corpus-driven analysis of the linguistic competition between the suffixes -our/-or in Early Modern English. It is conceived as a state of the art to provide an explanation of the development and distribution of these competing suffixes in Early Modern English. The study is based on the distribution of the most common set of words with alternative spellings in the period to investigate the development and the standardisation …
No Cat Could be That Hungry ! This / That as Intensifiers in American English
The intensifiers this/that can be traced back to the fourteenth century, when these deictic demonstratives acquired an adverbial status as a result of a grammaticalization process by means of which they became degree adverbs with the meaning of ‘to this/that extent, so much, so’ (OED s.v. this/that adv.). The present paper contributes to the study of the development of intensifiers through the grammaticalization of deictic demonstratives analyzin…
Third person present tense markers in some varieties of English
In British Standard English, number in the verb phrase is exclusively characterized by the use of the - s inflection with the third person singular present tense. World Englishes present a high level of variation as the uninflected third person singular and the inflected third person plural may also occur in these contexts. This paper pursues four objectives: a) to analyse the use of present third person inflections and compare their distribution…
The Split Infinitive in Middle English
A split infinitive construction denotes a type of syntactic tmesis in which a word or a phrase, especially an adverb, occurs between the infinitive marker to and the verb. The early instances of the split infinitive in English date back to the 13th century, when a personal pronoun, an adverb or two or more words could appear in such environments (Visser 1963-1973 II: 1038-1045). This paper investigates the split infinitive in Middle English with …
Zero that -clauses in the history of English. A historical sociolinguistic approach (1424–1681)
The present paper traces the history of zero and that as competing links for object clauses in the history of English from chronological and sociolinguistic perspectives. Even though the zero link is sporadically attested in Old English, the rise of the zero complementizer takes place in late Middle English and is well-established in the second half of the sixteenth century, becoming more frequent in speech-based text types (trials, sermons) or i…
On the History of the Intensifier Wonder in English
The intensifying function of the adverb wonder can be traced back to Old English, declining towards the end of the sixteenth century, with some sporadic instances throughout the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. Developed from the nominal form wundor 'an extraordinary thing, a marvel; a strange thing', the adverb preserved the original senses of the noun to denote the notions of manner 'wondrously, marvellously, surprisingly', on the one …
The Authorship of the Disputed Federalist Papers with an Annotated Corpus
The present paper discusses the potentials of annotated corpora in authorship attribution studies. These corpora allow the retrieval of morpho-syntactic information, which may serve as stylistic features, getting beyond the most common word-based approaches. In itself, annotation is meant to contain the structural mark-up, the lemmatization, the part-of-speech mark-up, and the textual reference. For the purpose, the corpus of the Federalist Paper…
Stylometry and Authorship Attribution
Post-Adpositions in Old English
Morphological Features in the Translatorship Attribution of the West Saxon Gospels
Aspects of punctuation in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre
Aspects of Punctuation in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre
Something old and something new. Techniques to improve the lexical inventory of EST students
One of the main difficulties encountered by Spanish students of Engineering when they are confronted with a technical text in English lies more often than not in their poor command of the lexicon, both general and subtechnical. It seems obvious that the learning of lengthy wordlists by rote must be discarded as idle, since the students can usually only recall a few items once a few days have passed. This particular tedious learning task can be ea…
On the History of the Intensifier Wonder in English
The intensifying function of the adverb wonder can be traced back to Old English, declining towards the end of the sixteenth century, with some sporadic instances throughout the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. Developed from the nominal form wundor 'an extraordinary thing, a marvel; a strange thing', the adverb preserved the original senses of the noun to denote the notions of manner 'wondrously, marvellously, surprisingly', on the one …
Something old and something new. Techniques to improve the lexical inventory of EST students
One of the main difficulties encountered by Spanish students of Engineering when they are confronted with a technical text in English lies more often than not in their poor command of the lexicon, both general and subtechnical. It seems obvious that the learning of lengthy wordlists by rote must be discarded as idle, since the students can usually only recall a few items once a few days have passed. This particular tedious learning task can be ea…
Aspects of Punctuation in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre
Aspects of punctuation in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre
Morphological Features in the Translatorship Attribution of the West Saxon Gospels
Post-Adpositions in Old English
The Authorship of the Disputed Federalist Papers with an Annotated Corpus
The present paper discusses the potentials of annotated corpora in authorship attribution studies. These corpora allow the retrieval of morpho-syntactic information, which may serve as stylistic features, getting beyond the most common word-based approaches. In itself, annotation is meant to contain the structural mark-up, the lemmatization, the part-of-speech mark-up, and the textual reference. For the purpose, the corpus of the Federalist Paper…
Stylometry and Authorship Attribution
On the History of the Intensifier Wonder in English
The intensifying function of the adverb wonder can be traced back to Old English, declining towards the end of the sixteenth century, with some sporadic instances throughout the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. Developed from the nominal form wundor 'an extraordinary thing, a marvel; a strange thing', the adverb preserved the original senses of the noun to denote the notions of manner 'wondrously, marvellously, surprisingly', on the one …
The Split Infinitive in Middle English
A split infinitive construction denotes a type of syntactic tmesis in which a word or a phrase, especially an adverb, occurs between the infinitive marker to and the verb. The early instances of the split infinitive in English date back to the 13th century, when a personal pronoun, an adverb or two or more words could appear in such environments (Visser 1963-1973 II: 1038-1045). This paper investigates the split infinitive in Middle English with …
Zero that -clauses in the history of English. A historical sociolinguistic approach (1424–1681)
The present paper traces the history of zero and that as competing links for object clauses in the history of English from chronological and sociolinguistic perspectives. Even though the zero link is sporadically attested in Old English, the rise of the zero complementizer takes place in late Middle English and is well-established in the second half of the sixteenth century, becoming more frequent in speech-based text types (trials, sermons) or i…
Third person present tense markers in some varieties of English
In British Standard English, number in the verb phrase is exclusively characterized by the use of the - s inflection with the third person singular present tense. World Englishes present a high level of variation as the uninflected third person singular and the inflected third person plural may also occur in these contexts. This paper pursues four objectives: a) to analyse the use of present third person inflections and compare their distribution…
No Cat Could be That Hungry ! This / That as Intensifiers in American English
The intensifiers this/that can be traced back to the fourteenth century, when these deictic demonstratives acquired an adverbial status as a result of a grammaticalization process by means of which they became degree adverbs with the meaning of ‘to this/that extent, so much, so’ (OED s.v. this/that adv.). The present paper contributes to the study of the development of intensifiers through the grammaticalization of deictic demonstratives analyzin…
Suffixes in Competition
This paper presents a corpus-driven analysis of the linguistic competition between the suffixes -our/-or in Early Modern English. It is conceived as a state of the art to provide an explanation of the development and distribution of these competing suffixes in Early Modern English. The study is based on the distribution of the most common set of words with alternative spellings in the period to investigate the development and the standardisation …
On the Rise and Diffusion of New Intensifiers
The intensifiers this and that acquired their intensifying function as a result of a grammaticalization process by means of which deictic demonstratives became degree adverbs with the meaning “to this or that extent, so much, so.” The phenomenon spread in the early nineteenth century as a typical resource of spoken English, and since then these intensifiers have found a niche in the written domain by imposing a scalar construal on adjectives for …
Spelling Forms in Competition
One of the problems of English spelling is the dual representation of the so-called ‘eyes’-words, rendered in discourse as - ise and - ize , both with high-frequency verbs such as modernise/modernize and rare coinages, as in burglarise / burglarize , etc. Eyes -words have historically evolved from two different language systems as two different forms with the same meaning, which have eventually come to coincide in their use in English with compet…
A very pleasant, safe, and effectual medicine’
The present paper traces the historical development of the serial comma in the history of English until its eventual decline over the course of the twentieth century. The serial comma (also known as the Oxford comma or Harvard comma) refers to the existence of a pause immediately before the conjunctions and/or (and sometimes nor) in a series of three or more elements in a clause. Although the use of this mark of punctuation is no longer a desider…
‘The night before beg'd ye queens's pardon and his brother's’
The apostrophe was introduced into the English orthographic system by the mid sixteenth century as a printer's mark especially designed ‘for the eye rather than for the ear’ (Sklar 1976: 175; Little 1986: 15). Whereas the uses of the apostrophe today are limited to the Saxon genitive construction ( the woman's book ), to verbal contractions ( you'll ‘you will’ or you're ‘you are’) and to other formulaic expressions ( o'clock ), its early uses als…
‘They cost me less pains than tragedy does’
Although less and fewer are supposed to have their particular domains for the expression of quantification, this has not always been the case in the history of English. These two quantifiers coexisted in free variation – irrespective of the typology of the noun – down to the eighteenth century. While some scholars have believed that the advent of prescriptivism seemed to specialise their distribution – with fewer being used exclusively for count …
“You spelled ‘spelt’ wrong”
The expression of the past tense in English has been plagued with oddities throughout its history. One example is the morphological duality in verbs like dream, burn and spell. Today, their preterite and participial forms may feature two morphemes, either the regular -ed or the irregular -t. In Present-day English, preference for one paradigm over the other seems to be determined on the grounds of diatopic variation, with American English favouri…
I wish more people would slow down in life’
Present-day English affords two alternative forms for the expression of wish clauses, wish and if only, which are used in free variation to express an unlikely or impossible desire or a regret. Unlike the expression of regrets where the past perfect has become the standard form in the verb phrase, wish clauses allow for the use of alternative forms, thus reshaping the system with subtle differences. Even though the past tense is largely preferred…
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