Aspectos de la semántica de los adverbios de modo en español
- Torner Castells, Sergi
- María Paz Battaner Arias Director
- Louise McNally Director
Defence university: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Fecha de defensa: 21 July 2005
- Ignacio Bosque Chair
- Janet Ann DeCesaris Secretary
- María Teresa Espinal Farre Committee member
- Josep M. Brucart Committee member
- Manuel Leonetti Jungl Committee member
Type: Thesis
Abstract
This thesis is an in-depth study of the semantics of mente adverbs in Spanish. With the goal of explaining the distribution of these adverbs on the basis of their semantic characteristics, 84 adverbs from seven subclasses were analysed, with two important results: 1) a refinement of the existing descriptions of these adverbs, largely thanks to the consideration of a wider array of data; and 2) a description of the semantic features that characterize each of the seven subclasses and predict their behavior. In particular, we get a clear picture of the relationship between the semantics of the base adjectives and the resulting adverbs, including aspects of meaning such as the inheritance of the argument structure of the adjectives by the corresponding adverbs, and the role argument structure plays in determining the adverbs uses.