Pilar Guerrero Medina is senior lecturer at the University of Córdoba, where she currently teaches courses on English Grammar and Linguistics. She has mainly conducted her research within a functional-cognitive framework, focusing on the relationship between lexical semantics and grammar, on the one hand, and grammar and discourse, on the other. P.C. Hengeveld supervised her Ph.D. entitled Transitivity as a prototype category in Functional Grammar: a comparative study in English, German and Spanish, which was awarded by the University of Córdoba in 1997. Pilar Guerrero Medina has been visiting scholar at the Universities of Amsterdam, Nottingham, Munich and Hildesheim. She has published essays on a range of topics, including aspectuality, the interaction between verbal and constructional semantics, compounding, and morphosyntactic alternations in English. While her earlier publications are framed mainly within the Functional Grammar theory of Simon C. Dik, her later work also incorporates insights from the Goldbergian version of Construction Grammar, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Functional Discourse Grammar.
Main publications
Guerrero Medina, Pilar and Díaz Alarcón, Soledad (eds), (2022) Herramientas teóricas y fundamentos metodológicos en Filología y Traducción. Aula Magna Mc Graw-Hill / Uco Press.
Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2020) “The distribution of verbs and verb classes in the English for-dative alternation: a lexico-paradigmatic approach”. RAEL: Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada 19.1: 120-135.
Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2020) “Meaning construction and motivation in the English benefactive double object construction. Verbal and constructional semantics at work”. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18.1: 94-111.
https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00052.gue
Guerrero Medina, Pilar, Torre Alonso, Roberto and Vea Escarza, Raquel (eds), (2018) Verbs, Clauses and Constructions: Functional and Typological Approaches. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2018) “Towards a comprehensive account of English –er deverbal synthetic compounds in Functional Discourse Grammar”. Word Structure 11.1: 14-35. https://doi.org/10.3366/word.2018.0114
Guerrero Medina, Pilar and Portero Muñoz, Carmen (eds), (2018) Derivational Morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar (themed issue). Word Structure 11.1.
https://doi.org/10.3366/word.2018.0113
Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2017) “The English “conative” as a family of constructions. Towards a usage-based approach”. In Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco J. et al. (eds), Constructing Families of Constructions. Analytical Perspectives and Theoretical Challenges. (Human Cognitive Processing Series 58). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 277-299. https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.58.10gue
Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2017) “The covert modality of ‘letting’ in the English middle construction”. In Marín Arrese, Juana et al. (eds), Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages. Discourse-pragmatic Perspectives. Bern: Peter Lang, 219-238.
Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2014) “A lexico-paradigmatic approach to English setting-constructions”. In González-Gómez, M. Ángeles et al. (eds), The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse. Applications and Implications. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 247). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 133-148.
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.247.07gue
Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2013) “Lexical-constructional integration in non-prototypical English middles. The role of high-level metonymy as a motivating factor”. Journal of English Studies 11: 133-147.
https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.2621
Guerrero Medina, Pilar (ed.) (2011) Morphosyntactic Alternations in English. Functional and Cognitive Perspectives. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing.
Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2009) “Semantic and pragmatic constraints on the English get-passive.” In Butler, Chris S. and Javier Martín Arista (eds.), Deconstructing Constructions. (Studies in Language Companion Series 107). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 271-294.
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.107.11sem
Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2005) “Transitivity in foregrounded discourse. A contrastive study in English and Spanish.” In Butler, Chris S. et al. (eds.), The Dynamics of Language Use: Functional and Contrastive Perspectives. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 140). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 349-369.
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.140.24gue