Perspectivized "estar"-sentences with aesthetic adjectives across American Spanish varieties
Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/59296DOI: 10.1075/sic.00086.gum
ISSN: 1571-0718
Date
2023Funders
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Bibliographic citation
Spanish in Context , 2023, v. 20, n. 2, p. 313-342
Keywords
Variation
Copulas
Estar
Aesthetic adjectives
Evaluative adjectives
Description / Notes
Copulas in Spanish and beyond: special issue of Spanish in Context 20:2 (2023), edited by Silvia Gumiel Molina and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez
Project
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Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
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Rights
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Access rights
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Abstract
The article describes the behavior of aesthetic adjectives ("bonito"-beautiful) in the so-called innovative constructions with "estar" (be), documented in some American varieties of Spanish. These innovative structures ("El poema está bonito"-The poem is beautiful) do not compare stages of the subject with respect to an aesthetic property (as would be their meaning in general Spanish), but rather express a perspectivized assertion, linked to the subjective judgment of the speaker about a particular quality. The article explains this pattern of variation on the basis of the work by Gumiel-Molina, Moreno-Quibén and Pérez-Jiménez (2020) and Moreno-Quibén (2022), according to which the classes of adjectives that appear in perspectivized "estar"-sentences have undergone a process of argument augmentation. Aesthetic adjectives in innovative "estar"-construction have an experiencer in their argument structure in the varieties of Spanish where this construction is possible. This experiencer serves as the basis for establishing the comparison required by estar and ultimately gives rise to the subjective/perspectivized meaning of the copular structure.
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