Pedro Ivorra Ordines

Pedro Ivorra Ordines

Professor

Centro universitario de la Defensa (Spain)

Academic Background

Pedro Ivorra-Ordines is a professor at the Defense University Center (Zaragoza). He has been awarded a Margarita Salas scholarship (Spain), under the supervision of Carmen Mellado Blanco, and an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship (Germany), supervised by Thomas Hoffmann. He has been a member of the FRASESPAL research group since 2017 and currently participates as a researcher in the project Creativity through the Lens of Construction Grammar: a Corpus and AI-based Repository of Constructional Idioms in German, Spanish and English (PID2024-1613380B-100), led by Carmen Mellado Blanco. He has published in high-impact journals such as Review of Cognitive Linguistics and Yearbook of Phraseology, as well as with prestigious publishers including Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, De Gruyter, Springer Verlag, and Peter Lang.

Published Books

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2026). Comparative constructional idioms in Spanish, English and French: A contrastive usage-based approach. De Gruyter.

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2021). Les construccions comparatives intensificadores de la lletjor en català, espanyol, anglés i francés des de les gramàtiques de construccions. Un estudi basat en corpus. PhD Dissertation. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. https://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/672700.

Coordination of Special Issues of Journals

Mellado Blanco, C. & Ivorra Ordines, P. & Esteban Fonollosa, E. (Eds.). (2024). Quaderns de Filologia. Estudis Lingüístics. Special Issue: New approaches to Construction Grammar(s) 29.

Articles in Indexed Journals

Mellado Blanco, C. & Ivorra Ordines, P. (in press). Pasito a pasito, Schrittchen für Schrittchen. The platform CONSTRIDIOMS as a tool to learn constructional idioms in Spanish and German. International Journal of Bilingualism. Special Issue: Multi-Word Units in Multilingual Learning: Chunks, Phrasemes and Formulaic Language in Learning and Teaching Contexts. 1-15.

Mellado Blanco, C. & Ivorra Ordines, P. (2026). Blows of meaning: morphological creativity in the construction [a N-suffix_{singular.blow} limpio] in Spanish. Folia Linguistica. Special Issue: Unlocking Evaluative Morphology 60(2). 823–856.

Hoffmann, Th. & Ivorra Ordines, P. (2026). Productivity. In Hilary Nesi & Petar Milin (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. Volume 3, Elsevier. 588–592.

Ivorra Ordines, P. & Mellado Blanco,C. (2025). Semi-schematic patterns and their social dimension: A constructionist study of the proverb Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres in Spanish and German. In Natalia Filatkina and Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Eds.), Dynamics at the lexicon-syntax interface. Creativity and routine in word-formation and multi-word expressions. Berlin: De Gruyter, 323–352.

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2025). Dime con quién te juntas y te diré quién eres. Substantive idioms from Construction Grammar. In Torsten Leuschner, Anaïs Vajnovszki, Gauthier Delaby and Jóhanna Barðdal (Eds.), How to do things with corpora – Methodological issues and case studies. Springer Nature, 239–273.

Mellado Blanco, Carmen, Ivorra Ordines, P. & Esteban Fonollosa, M. (2024). Past and future in Construction Grammar(s) and the limits of constructions. In C. Mellado Blanco, P. Ivorra Ordines & M. Esteban Fonollosa (eEds.), Quaderns de Filologia. Estudis Lingüístics. Special Issue: New approaches to Construction Grammar(s) 29. 9-21.

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2024). Un hambre que da calambre. Creativity and extravagance in the context of a family of consecutive constructional idioms. CogniTextes. Special Issue Constructions and Context(s).

Ivorra Ordines, P. & López Meirama, B. (2024).Vete a freír cristales. The interplay of convention and innovation in a constructional idiom of rejection in Spanish. Review of Cognitive Linguistics. 1-38.

Esteban Fonollosa, M. & Ivorra Ordines, P. (2023). Hasta los huesos, bis in die Knochen. Construcciones fraseológicas somáticas en contraste a través de corpus. Revista de Filología Alemana 31, 145-165.

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2023). Por mí como si te operas. Constructional idioms of rejection from a constructionist approach. Yearbook of Phraseology 14, 89-120.

Mellado Blanco, C. & Ivorra Ordines, P. (2023). Casi palmo de la risa. A corpus-based study of a Spanish constructional idiom with the causal preposition de. Constructions. Special issue 35 years of Constructions.

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2021). “Cap a una anàlisi estilística de La plaça del Diamant: les comparacions com a tret rodoredià. Què aporten les traduccions?”. Estudis Romànics 43, 213-238. https://publicacions.iec.cat/repository/pdf/00000298/00000041.pdf

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2021). “De construcciones fraseológicas a comparaciones fraseológicas: el rol de las microconstrucciones emergentes en la creación de comparaciones fraseológicas”. eHumanista IVITRA 19, 440-455. https://www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/sitefiles/ivitra/volume19/06.%20Ivorra.pdf

Ivorra Ordines, P. & Mellado Blanco, C. (2021). Más tontos que el novio de la Chelo. La intensificación de la estulticia en foros y chats por medio de comparaciones creativas: una aproximación desde la Gramática de Construcciones. Estudios Románicos 30, 39-58.

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2020). Les comparacions i les seues variacions en La plaça del Diamant des de la Gramàtica de Construccions: entre usualitat i creativitat. Romanica Olomucensia,  Volumen 32/Número 1, 73-90. https://romanica.upol.cz/pdfs/rom/2020/01/07.pdf

Book Chapters

 Ivorra Ordines, P. (acepted) Study of phraseological units in La plaça de Diamant and its translations into English. In John London (ed.), Catalan Literature in English. Reception, theory and translation. Legenda, 107–116.

Ivorra Ordines, P. & Ana Mansilla Pérez. (2026). WhIAW Constructional Idioms in Spanish and German: A Corpus-Based Study. En Mollica,F. Flinz C. & Luppi, R. (Eds.), Phraseology in Action: Theoretical insights and practical approaches to constructional idioms, idioms, proverbs, and more, 29–44. University of Milano Press.

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2026). Más perdido que Wally en el Metropolitano. Convencionalización y productividad de una construcción fraseológica incongruente. En Mellado Blanco,C., Sinner, C. & Tabares Plasencia, E. (Eds.), Incoherencias, contradicciones y paradojas en la Fraseología del español, (pp.163–183). Berlin: Peter Lang.

Ivorra Ordines, P. & Mellado Blanco, C. (2025). Semi-schematic patterns and their social dimension: A constructionist study of the proverb Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres in Spanish and German. In N. Filatkina & S. Arndt-Lappe (Eds.), Dynamics at the lexicon-syntax interface. Creativity and routine in word-formation and multi-word expressions. (pp.323-352). Berlin: De Gruyter.

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2025). Dime con quién te juntas y te diré quién eres. Substantive idioms from Construction Grammar. In T. Leuschner, A. Vajnovszki, G. Delaby & J. Barðdal (Eds.), How to do things with corpora – Methodological issues and case studies. (pp. 239-273). Springer Nature.

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2023). Spanish comparative constructional idioms and their English and French counterparts. A corpus-based study. In Ó. Ferreiro-Vázquez, A. T. Varajão Moutinho Pereira Correia & S. Lima Gonçalves Araújo (Eds.), Technological innovation put to the service of language learning, translation and interpreting: Insights from academic and professional contexts. (pp. 157-179). Peter Lang.

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2022). Codazo en plena cara y puñetazo en toda la boca. La familia de construcciones somáticas de golpe. In M. dos Santos Machado Vieira (Org.), Predicar: uma rede de perspectivas metodológicas. (pp.31-55). Blucher Open Access.

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2021). Comparative constructional idioms. A corpus-based study of the creativity of the [más feo que X] construction. In C. Mellado Blanco (Ed.), Productive Patterns in Phraseology and Construction Grammar. A Multilingual Approach. (pp.29-52). Berlin: de Gruyter.

Review

Ivorra Ordines, P. (2026). Book review of Benoît Leclercq and Cameron Morin. 2025. The Meaning of Constructions. (Elements in Construction Grammar). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781009499651 (paperback), 78 pp. Journal of Linguistics.

Congresses and Dissemination

Mansilla Pérez, A. & Ivorra-Ordines, P. (2026). X Congreso Internacional “Lingüística contrastiva románico-germánica e intrarrománica”. Título de la presentación: May the karma be with you. Una aproximación construccionista de los snowclones. University of Innsbruck, Austria. 2/09/2026 – 5/09/2026.

Hatipoğlu, Ç., Ivorra-Ordines, P. & Radic Bojanicm B. CEFR Levels and PhraCons: Creation of Exercises and Assessment Tools. Workshop Learning & Teaching of Phraseme Constructions. From theory to practice within the research project A Multilingual Repository of Phraseme Constructions in Central and Eastern European Languages (PhraConRep). University of Tirana, Albania. 8/04/2026 -10/04/2026.

Radić-Bojanić, B., Ivorra-Ordines, P. & Hatipoğlum C. Biennial International Conference «Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy» (CALP-5). Título de la presentación: Lost in construction. Constructional idioms in EFL and the CEFR Framework. University of Tromsø, Noruega. 4/03/2026 – 6/03/2026.

Organizing Committee: Rosca, A., Ivorra Ordines, P. & Esteban Fonollosa, M. I International Conference on Applied Cognitive Linguistics (CLaRe) Cognition in Action: Language, Meaning, and Communication in Context. Universitat de València, Spain. 19/11/2025 – 21/11/2025.

Chinellato, C. & Ivorra Ordines, P. I International Conference on Applied Cognitive Linguistics (CLaRe) Cognition in Action: Language, Meaning, and Communication in Context. Título de la presentación: The Champion of Champions. Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Discontinuous Reduplicative Constructions. Universitat de València, Spain. 19/11/2025 -21/11/2025.

Seminar – invited plenary talk: Ivorra Ordines, P. Título: Las construcciones fraseológicas desde la lexicografía. Seminario de Formació e Innovación para estudantes de mestrado da Facultade de Filoloxía (SEFORIN) e foi organizado polo mestrado Interuniversitario en Lingüística Aplicada. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 6/11/2025. 

Mellado Blanco, C. & Ivorra Ordines, P. Prepositions in action. A constructionist approach of the construction [a golpe de N]. Scientific Network CoPrEspa. The dynamics of prepositions and prepositional constructions in Spanish. 2/10/2025 – 3/10/2025.

Ivorra Ordines, P. 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Culture, Discourse and Cognition. Unraveling creativity. A constructionist approach. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. 14/07/2025 – 18/07/2025.

Ivorra Ordines, P. & Chinellato, C. 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Culture, Discourse and Cognition. Título de la presentación: Reduplication and Construction Grammar. A cross-linguistic analysis of reduplicative genitive superlative constructions. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. 14/07/2025 -18/07/2025.

Chinellato, C. & Ivorra Ordines, P. 16 International Conference on Corpus Linguistics. Meaning in Corpus: Tools, Methods and Approaches to ‘Aboutness‘. Título de la presentación: The construction of constructions. A cross-linguistic study on reduplicative genitive superlative constructions.  Universidad de Salamanca, España. 15/05/2025 -17/05/2025.

invited plenary talk: Ivorra Ordines, P. Uncovering and Analyzing Phraseme Constructions. Methods and Discussion. Workshop Towards a learner-friendly representation of syntactic idioms in a digital lexicographic resource, within the research project A Multilingual Repository of Phraseme Constructions in Central and Eastern European Languages (PhraConRep). University of Wroclaw, Polania. 20/02/2025 -22/02/2025. 

Mellado Blanco, C., Ivorra Ordines P., Iglesias Iglesias, N., Esteban Fonollosa, M. & Chinellato, C. CONSTRIDIOMS y CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS: Construcciones fraseológicas del español y del alemán. 16 International Conference on Corpus Linguistics. Meaning in Corpus: Tools, Methods and Approaches to ‘Aboutness‘.  Universidad de Salamanca, España. 15/05/2025 -17/05/2025. [mesa redonda]