Carmen Portero Muñoz is senior lecturer at the University of Córdoba, Spain, where she obtained a tenured position in 2002. She completed her doctorate in 1997 with a PhD. with the title Intensification: study of a classeme, supervised by Prof. Kees Hengeveld (University of Amsterdam). Her research is centered on lexical and morphosyntactic issues following functional and cognitive approaches. Over the past decade she has published several articles on a range of topics, with a focus on the study of processes at the interface between the lexicon and grammar, such as conversion and compounding, as well as on the study of different derivational processes from a theoretical perspective. Many of these publications have a functionalist orientation and take the perspective of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), while a second group of articles explores different topics within cognitive approaches, such as Construction Morphology. She has been visiting scholar at the universities of Amsterdam, Buffalo and Cambridge. Over the last few years she has worked on the empirical study of conceptual metonymy in grammar and discourse, as part of a series of projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Innovation. E-mail: ff1pomuc@uco.es.
Main publications
2023. Compounding processes in the language of adventure tourism. To appear in Durán Muñoz, Isabel y Jiménez Navarro, Eva Lucía. (Eds) Profiling the language of adventure tourism. A corpus-assisted approach. Peter Lang.
2022. “It’s way too intriguing!” The fuzzy status of emergent intensifiers: A Functional Discourse Grammar account. Open Linguistics 8: 618–649. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0210
2022. Forty years of metonymy: The time-measurement pseudo-partitive construction in English. In Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (Eds.) Living Metaphors and Metonymies, by [RCL 20:1]
2022. Bell, Melanie and Carmen Portero-Muñoz. 2022. Time-measurement constructions in English. A corpus-based exploration. In Lotte Sommerer and Evelien Keizer (Eds.) English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective. Current issues [Studies in Language Companion Series, 221], pp. 312-362. Benjamins: Amsterdam.
2021. The English ‘Time-measurement construction’ as a case of gradience: A Functional Discourse Grammar approach. In Lucia Contreras-García and Daniel García Velasco (Eds.) Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar: Theory and Applications [Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 354], pp. 303-336. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711592-009.
2018. Derivational morphology and the lexicon-grammar competition in Functional Discourse Grammar: An overview. Word Structure 11 - 1, pp. 1 - 13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/word.2018.0113
2018. Tense switching in English narratives: an FDG perspective. Open Linguistics 4 - 1, pp. 657 - 684. DOI: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0032
2018. Pilar Guerrero Medina; Carmen Portero Muñoz. Derivational Morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar. Word Structure. 11 - 1, pp. 1 – 144 DOI: (https://doi.org/10.3366/word.2018.0112)
2018. Carmen Portero Muñoz and Daniel García Velasco. A new proposal for the distinction between lexical and syntactic derivation in Functional Discourse Grammar. Word Structure 11 - 1, pp. 95-117. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/word.2018.0117
2016. Bound lexical formatives: lexicon, grammar or somewhere in between. Linguistics 54 - 5, pp. 1017 - 1053. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2016-0023
2016. The discourse-motivated potential of view point adverbs in -wise: an FDG perspective. Lingua. 184, pp. 1 - 24.
2014. A constructional approach to transitional formatives: the use of –head in so-called ‘exocentric’ formations. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 12 - 1, pp. 160 - 192.
2013. Adjective-Noun sequences at the crossroads between morphology and syntax: an FDG perspective. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 67, pp. 123 - 140.
2013. Noun-Noun sequences and the complement-modifier distinction: a corpus-based study. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 9 - 1, pp. 71 - 107.
2011. Noun-Noun Euphemisms in the Language of the Global Financial Crisis. Atlantis 33, pp. 137 - 157.
2007. `Noun+Noun´ sequences: their place in Functional Discourse Grammar. Working Papers in Functional Grammar 80.
2003. Derived nominalizations in -ee: an RRG-based semantic analysis. English Language and Linguistics 7 - 1, pp. 129 - 159.