Ricardo Maldonado

Ricardo Maldonado
National Autonomous University of Mexico | UNAM · Institute of Philosophical Research

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January 1980 - present
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Position
  • Professor (Full)
Description
  • Cognitive Linguistics of Spanish and Mexican indigenous languages
Education
August 2020 - February 2021
University of California, San Diego
Field of study
  • Cognitive linguistics

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El verbo dar suele combinarse con sustantivos anatómicos para formar expresiones de interpretación metafórica. En este trabajo intentaremos explicar cómo es que dicho verbo puede construirse con estos sustantivos y qué implicaciones semántico-sintácticas acarrea sus resultados construccionales. El propósito es ir más allá del presupuesto de que se...
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La educación ha sido uno de los ámbitos más propicios para la difusión de ideologías hegemónicas como las que nutren las identidades nacionales. En México, desde 1960 los libros escolares de nivel primaria han sido creados por el gobierno y repartidos de manera gratuita y obligatoria. Dichas características han hecho de los Libros de Texto Gratuito...
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Dentro del alto número de colocaciones lexicalizadas en el español mexicano, una porción importante de ellas se construye con el adverbio ya: ya mero, ya valió, etc. Este trabajo examina el contenido de una de estas construcciones: ya estuvo. (1) Hoy termino con Cablevisión. Ya estuvo bonito de tanto dolor. (Twitter) (2) Concreta, manito, tú sabe...
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Evidentiality in communication is better investigated in delimited and recognizable contexts where the multiple levels of meaning in interactional practices are manifested. Taking this viewpoint, the present volume explores the interrelations between evidentials and textual genre in Spanish. Adopting a discursive perspective, all of the chapters ex...
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Además del valor adverbial de tampoco, que relaciona dos proposiciones negativas y tiene una función adversativa, se ha señalado que, en el español actual, tampoco presenta también valores pragmáticos de corte atenuativo o enfático. Este trabajo identifica, adicionalmente, un valor evaluativo que subraya distintos niveles pragmáticos de inadecuació...
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Este artículo describe el significado de aquí, acá, ahí, allí y allá en el español mexicano desde la semántica cognoscitiva. El paradigma se distribuye binariamente con base en las variables: 1) modo de construcción de la escena, en que la terminación -á contrasta con -í en grados de subjetividad; 2) integración de ego en el espacio de referencia,...
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This paper attempts to analyse the way in which the semantic confi guration of a lexical form determines the pragmatic senses developed in discourse. Two radically different syntactic forms are used for analysis, the adjective claro and the preposition- connector según. The analysis shows that the pragmatic behaviour of these unrelated forms is det...
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Background: A limited number of studies have analyzed grammaticality in monolingual Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI). Most of the available data are based on bilingual speakers. Aims: To extend previous studies by doing a more detailed analysis of grammatical types in monolingual Spanish-speakers with and without...
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Uno de los problemas principales en la caracterización del verbo quedar es su multiplicidad de significados y funciones. Algunos trabajos distinguen valores de permanencia y significados locativos que suelen equipararse con estar. Esta equivalencia no resuelve los casos en los que la locación no solo designa ubicación, sino que integra también la n...
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The semantic and syntactic complexity of the verb quedar constitutes a significant problem for current linguistic analysis. In distinguishing meanings of permanence from those of location, many studies have equated quedar with the verb estar. Yet this equivalence does not solve cases in which the verb not only designates location but also incorpora...
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Fecha de recepción: 17 de julio de 2015. Fecha de aceptación: 19 de noviembre de 2015. Este estudio analiza tres construcciones del verbo dar que predican no un evento de transferencia, sino uno de emergencia y/o crecimiento de una entidad (Este árbol da manzanas agrias, El maíz se da bien aquí, Se le da bien el canto). En lugar de analizarlas co...
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Un fenómeno de interés reciente en el lenguaje infantil es el uso de conectores por parte de los niños. Este trabajo se centra en este uso en un grupo de 16 niños entre los 5 y 9 años de edad con y sin trastorno del lenguaje. Los datos fueron obtenidos por medio de narraciones espontáneas. Los resultados muestran usos similares en ocurrencia de con...
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This paper shows that luego entonces is the product of a conceptual fusion, a Blend (Turner and Fauconnier 2002), of a bleached consecutive marker luego and a relatively less bleached consecutive marker entonces that led to the formation of an argumentative marker by which the speaker offers a statement to be taken by the hearer as a logical conseq...
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Este estudio analiza estructuras oracionales complejas en narraciones de niños con Trastorno Específico/Primario de Lenguaje (TPL) y de desarrollo típico entre los 5 y los 9 años. Contrasta la producción de oraciones adverbiales, nominales y relativas por medio de varias medidas de longitud y densidad de cláusula así como por el nivel de agramatica...
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This paper explores both the polysemy and the development of the adverb apenas ‘barely hardly’ into a discourse marker of temporal proximity ‘just/recently’. In contrast to well-known expected tendencies in grammaticalization, apenas runs against the cannon. The subjective adverb apenas, that designates events carried out “with effort/difficulty”,...
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Cuadro 1. Caracas. ireccionalidad (Sedano, 20.3)
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Against views that understand the problem of subjectivity as a phenomenon reduced to the incorporation of pragmatic experiences, the article defends the view that subjectivity has to do with a problem of attenuation, in Langacker's sense, according to which there is an increase in the presence of the conceptualizing element as a result of the decre...
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Voice or diathesis, as first termed by Dionysius, is the grammatical category by which the arguments of the verb receive different prominence status in the sentence through a variety of semantic-syntactic and even pragmatic coding patterns. In verbs involving at least two arguments, the arrangement is always asymmetrical, with one argument being mo...
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1 The central aim of this work is to describe the strategic construal of in and out in English particle verbs. The term strategic construal assumes the following: 1) exploration of strategic thinking in L2 learning and processing, and 2) exploration of dynamic and subjective construction of meaning pertaining to the human ability to understand and...
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Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 153-165
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In contrast with previous analyses where ya has been disjunctively characterized as a temporal adverb, an aspectual and a discourse marker this paper offers a unified account as a complex grounding predication (Langacker, 1987, 1991a,b, 2000, 2004) that anchors the event with respect to the time of speech subsuming the evolutionary momentum of the...
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This paper explores the notion of closure in a set of Spanish adverbial and prepositional expressions (finalmente, al fin, por fin, en fin) whose basic form is the stem fin "end". These forms appear to cover a variety of related meanings ranging from a basic adverbial modifier, to a text sequential pointer, to an extraclausal pragmatic marker highl...
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Use of the clitic se was analysed in 28- and 36-month-old Spanish-speaking toddlers using a Cognitive Grammar model (Langacker 1987, 1992, Maldonado 1992). The data demonstrate that the first forms of the clitic se focus on the critical moment of change (middle forms) rather than true reflexives. This aspectual phenomenon is based on cognition. We...
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Essays on Spanish linguistics and related topics are dedicated to linguist Tracy D. Terrell. An introductory section gives a brief biography and a list of his publications. Essays include: "The Natural Approach to Language Teaching: An Update" (Tracy D. Terrell); "Two Mad, Mad, Mad Worlds: Notes on Natural Approach and the Writing of 'Dos mundos'"...
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This paper argues that the analysis of the clitic se in Spanish as a reflexive pronoun misrepresents the overall functions that the clitic displays. Instead it is proposed that while having a reduced number of reflexive uses the clitic se is a middle voice marker. Middle voice is defined as a system of constructions whose main property is to portra...
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Microfiche. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1992. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 425-435).
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In this paper we provide a characterization of the middle construction in YM, and show that the apparently unpredictable distribution of middle voice in YM corresponds to a neatly identified, and quite limited, system of absolute events, i.e., events in which no energy is expended (Langacker 1987). This strategy is not exploited by other related Ma...

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