Chapter published in:
Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta DemonteEdited by Olga Fernández-Soriano, Elena Castroviejo Miró and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 239] 2017
► pp. 108–128
Adverbial elatives in Caribbean Spanish
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach | The Ohio State University
Melvin González-Rivera | University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
This paper is a study of the adverbial modifier bien and its use as an elative or operator of extreme degree in a Caribbean Spanish variety, Puerto Rican Spanish. It is argued that there are several properties setting the elative interpretation of bien apart from other well-known uses in other varieties and from the intensifier muy. The modifier bien is also argued to be exclamative and modal in nature, related to the high degree of commitment of the speaker with the truth of a proposition.
Keywords: elative, degree adverb, superlative, extreme-degree interpretation, modality, Puerto Rican Spanish
Published online: 14 June 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.239.06gut
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.239.06gut
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