'Tope (de)' + adjetivo: un elemento innovador en el paradigma de la superlación en español actual
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to account for the usages of Sp. tope (de) + adjective. Firstly, it focuses on the possible reasons why this term has come to acquire an elative value; then, its presence in current Spanish is analysed -taking into consideration its diatopical variation and its different linguistic registers - through a substantial corpus of data and from the conclusions drawn from a series of surveys conducted among peninsular Spanish speakers. Similarly, the contexts and structures where this expression may appear are also examined, to conclude that tope is an element of constructions that are in principle only reserved for morphological elatives and is undergoing an unfinished process of grammaticalization. Therefore, although it responds to grammaticalization parameters such as decategorization, fixing, or paradigmatization, there is not a complete coalescence with the adjective it modifies.
DOI: 10.5209/clac.56323
Author: Ana Serradilla Castaño
Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2743302389