Chapter published in:
Adjective Adverb Interfaces in RomanceEdited by Martin Hummel and Salvador Valera
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 242] 2017
► pp. 305–327
From adjective to adverbial modal locutions in Spanish
Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani | Universidad de Sonora, Mexico
This paper focus on an issue at present not well-known, neither in the synchronic nor in the diachronic perspective, that is, the adverbial modal locutions in Spanish with an adjective lexical base – a nominalized adjective or a nominal phrase – displaying the ending -as, in a prepositional phrase with the preposition a. The paper offers a diachronic analysis of these locutions from the 12th to 20th centuries. It describes the adjectives entering in this construction and provides evidence to support the emergence of an adverbial scheme with a specific, expressive or subjective, function. It also aims to show that the adverbial modal scheme arose relevant to the fifteenth century from the original prepositional phrase by a constructional grammaticalization change.
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Published online: 21 December 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.242.12ort
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.242.12ort
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