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Constructions in SpanishEdited by Inga Hennecke and Evelyn Wiesinger
[Constructional Approaches to Language 34] 2023
► pp. 129–153
In this chapter we present a holistic analysis of instances of the constructional idiom [a TODO Nsg], as conceived, both theoretically and methodologically, from the perspective of Construction Grammar (Croft, 2001; Goldberg, 2006). The construction under scrutiny here presents a high degree of fixedness in use. Its free slot, as the reference corpora consulted have shown, is filled preferentially by a series of nouns with intensifying properties, especially those referring to speed, loudness, power, and luxury or comfort.