Entre la sintaxis y el discursoel caso de 'a lo mejor' y 'al menos' en la conversación coloquial
- 1 University of Valencia - Val.Es.Co. Research Group
ISSN: 1893-3211
Argitalpen urtea: 2018
Zenbakien izenburua: Monographic topic: the syntax and semantics of determiners and quantifiers in Spanish
Alea: 7
Zenbakia: 2
Orrialdeak: 237-266
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
Laburpena
This paper studies the Spanish forms a lo mejor (maybe) and al menos (at least) from a modular perspective, revisiting the categorization of a lo major and al menos according to the involved linguistic level and analyzing the relations between the adverbial uses of these forms and the discursive ones. Such relations show that the forms a lo mejor and al menos can be considered bicategorial lexical items, what is implemented by a corpus study based on data from spoken language.