De modificador aspectual a atenuador oracionalNuevos datos sobre la evolución de medio

  1. Elena Felíu Arquiola 1
  2. Enrique Pato 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Jaén
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    Universidad de Jaén

    Jaén, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0122p5f64

  2. 2 University of Montreal
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    University of Montreal

    Montreal, Canadá

    ROR https://ror.org/0161xgx34

Journal:
Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie

ISSN: 0049-8661,  1865-9063

Year of publication: 2015

Volume: 131

Issue: 1

Pages: 119-156

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1515/ZRP-2015-0006 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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Abstract

This study provides new data on the evolution of medio along the history of the Spanish language both from a distributional and a semantic point of view. With respect to the distributional perspective, this work shows, using data from Corpus del español, that the adverb medio extended its combinatorial possibilities throughout the centuries, from a small initial group of lexical categories to a larger lexical group and also to syntagmatic categories, including the clause or the sentence. As for the semantic perspective, this paper shows how this distributional extension involves a semantic change: medio evolved from aspectual to evaluative modifier and finally, in the twentieth century, to attenuator of sentence modality, understood in a broad sense.

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