Search results for "Adverbi"
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Outlining a grammaticalization path for the Spanish formula en plan (de): A contribution to crosslinguistic pragmatics
2020
Abstract This article discusses the diachronic development of the Spanish multifunctional formula en plan (with its variant en plan de, literally ‘in plan (of)’ but usually equivalent to English like). The article has two main aims: firstly, to describe the changes that the formula has undergone since its earliest occurrences as a marker in the nineteenth century up to the early 21st century. The diachronic study evinces a process of grammaticalization in three steps: from noun to clause adverbial and then to discourse marker. Secondly, to conduct a contrastive analysis between en plan (de) and the English markers like and kind of/kinda so as to shed new light on the potential existence of …
Las locuciones adverbiales en la lexicografía hispanolatina del Siglo de Oro
2008
En este trabajo pretendo estudiar la formación, fijación y variación de las locuciones verbales en los diccionarios y vocabularios del Siglo de Oro español Comunicación leída en el VII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, celebrado en Mérida (Yucatán, México), 4-8 de septiembre de 2006
Todo, ¿adverbio? Estudio de la palabra simple y de las unidades fraseológicas de las que forma parte
2010
En la tradición gramatical española la palabra todo ha tenido un estudio muy superficial. Sin embargo, desde el punto de vista gramatical, la palabra todo es una de las más complejas de la lengua española (Chevalier 1988; Pottier 1996). Uno de los factores que contribuyen en mayor medida a esta complejidad es el hecho de que en ella confluyen los sentidos que en latín tenían los términos OMNIS y TOTUS, lo que sucede también en muchas otras lenguas neolatinas. Esta confuencia de sentidos provoca que la palabra todo encierre valores semánticos y usos sintácticos muy diferentes. El hecho de que exista en español una sola palabra para lo que en latín eran dos dificulta el reconocimiento de los …
Paradigms as triggers of semantic change: Demonstrative adverbs in Catalan and Spanish
2015
This paper sets out to analyse the development of demonstrative adverbs of place in Catalan and Spanish. The main questions dealt with in this study are the following: (i) why two-term and three-term deictic systems often display a certain lack of stability so that diachronically two-term systems sometimes become three-term (as in old Catalan and Spanish) or, the other way round, three-term systems become two-term (like in late Latin and in Catalan during the modern era); (ii) if the most normal and expected development is for deictic systems to take on anaphoric values, why in the case of the adverb aquí ('near the speaker and/or addressee') in Catalan and the adverb ahí ('near the address…
Baltu filoloģija, 24. sēj., Nr.1
2015
Discourse markers and modality in spoken Catalan: The case of (és) clar
2012
Abstract The present paper illustrates the fuzzy limits between modality markers and discourse markers by analysing the different uses based on the word clar ‘clear’ in oral Catalan. Clar is lexically described as an adjective, but it has developed different functions in various syntactic and pragmatic contexts. In the adverbial and the interjective uses, (es) clar (que) ‘it is clear that’ is a modality marker indicating certainty and shared knowledge. As a conjunction, clar que has developed a concessive meaning (‘but, nevertheless’). When (es) clar acts as a discourse marker (i.e. introducing an utterance) it can be an effective mitigation device used to soften a potentially face-threaten…
Revisión de la categoría «adverbio» en español
2009
Among all word classes, the adverb is the worst defined and studied grammatical category. All grammarians accept that this category includes very heterogeneous elements, which come from very different origins and have very different functions. There is thus an urgent need to review this grammatical category. With this work, I intend to find an answer to the following questions: How the grammatical theory on the adverb has been developed? Which have been the mistakes of the grammatical tradition by producing a theory on the adverb? What should we actually understand by an adverb? How can we order, in a proper and reasonable way, the elements which are presently grouped in the so called «adve…
Bene: Adverb or noun?
2013
When Italian bene ‘good / well’ occurs with fare ‘do / make’, several constructs with remarkably different argument frames are involved. This paper deals with three of them: (a) Il latte fa bene ai bambini ‘Milk is good for children’; (b) Fa bene il suo lavoro ‘She does her job well’, and (c) Faresti bene a non dire niente ‘You would do well to say nothing about it’. We discuss dictionary discrepancies concerning the lexical category of bene in (a), which we take to be a noun predicate, and draw a distinction between the adverbial uses in (b) and (c).
Simetries de mirall en l’ordre intern de les construccions absolutes: del català antic al català actual
2016
Resum: Se sol assumir que les construccions absolutes manifesten les mateixes propietats sintàctiques i interpretatives que les subordinades adverbials però, en contrast amb aquestes, no disposen d’un subordinant explícit. En aquest article argumentarem en contra d’aquesta idea. Partint de l’anàlisi de la dislocació del subjecte en el català primitiu i en l’actual, justificarem que les CA encapçalades per una vegada i un cop en català tenen un subordinant format composicionalment per dues porcions discontinues: d’una banda, una preposició incorporada en l’estructura sublèxica del participi, seguint la proposta de Gallego & Hernanz (2012) i, de l’altra, una expressió temporal (una vegada, un…
Problems with primary vs. secondary grammaticalization: the case of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages
2015
Abstract The present paper aims at testing four criteria for the distinction between primary vs. secondary grammaticalization in East and mainland Southeast Asian languages. These languages are of special interest for research on grammaticalization because they show limitations in the coevolution of meaning and form and because pragmatic inference is very prominent (lack of obligatory grammatical markers, multifunctionality). If the four criteria work in these languages, this can be taken as a good indicator for their cross-linguistic, maybe universal relevance. The criteria are tested with three markers that stand for three different types of multifunctionality: (i) the Khmer verb baːn ‘co…