Gumiel-Molina, Silvia and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez 2023 IntroductionCopulas in Spanish and Beyond, Gumiel-Molina, Silvia and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (eds.), pp. 251–256 | Introduction
The article describes the behavior of aesthetic adjectives (bonito ‘beautiful’) in the so-called innovative constructions with estar ‘be
estar
’, documented in some American varieties of Spanish. These innovative structures (El poema está bonito ‘The poem is beautiful’) do not… read more
This study accounts for the unacceptability of individual-level gradable adjectives as (depictive) secondary predicates on the basis of two factors: (a) the semantics of gradable adjectives—specifically the way their comparison classes are formed in the syntax, giving rise to the difference between… read more
In this paper we propose that the differences between ser ‘beSER’ and estar
‘beESTAR’ predications traditionally associated with the individual-level/stagelevel
(IL/SL) distinction (having to do with their differing combinations with
adverbs quantifying over situations, locative and temporal… read more