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The Fine-grained Structure of the Lexical Area: Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in SpanishAntonio Fábregas
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 39] 2024
► pp. 351–372
Antonio Fábregas
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 39] 2024
► pp. 351–372
Chapter 11Deadjectival adjectives
Scale suffixes
Article outline
- 11.1Overview of the chapter
- 11.2The scalar suffix -zco and other scale-modifying suffixes
- 11.2.1Empirical properties
- 11.2.2Scalar suffixes: Analysis
- 11.2.3Appreciatives and scales
- 11.2.4Similitudinal adjectivalisers
- 11.3The elative suffix -ísimo: Description
- 11.4The elative suffix: Analysis
- 11.4.1-ísim as the only elative element in Spanish
- 11.4.2The syntactic distribution of -ísim-
- 11.4.3-ísim- and -érrim- projected in the spine
- 11.4.4-ísim- in cases of iteration and with non adjectival categories
