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Generalized gradability and extremeness in Puerto Rican Spanish

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Abstract

The expression of extremeness in Puerto Rican Spanish is encoded in a series of modifiers, which are attached to adjectival, nominal or verbal elements. The proper treatment of this phenomenon requires a generalization of gradability and modification transcategorially. A semantic account is presented in which extremeness is mapped along several contextually-dependent dimensions, which are sensitive to the properties of the event associated to the expression in the scope of the modifier.

Abstract

The expression of extremeness in Puerto Rican Spanish is encoded in a series of modifiers, which are attached to adjectival, nominal or verbal elements. The proper treatment of this phenomenon requires a generalization of gradability and modification transcategorially. A semantic account is presented in which extremeness is mapped along several contextually-dependent dimensions, which are sensitive to the properties of the event associated to the expression in the scope of the modifier.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Introduction ix
  5. Towards a theory of assertion structure 1
  6. Towards a theory of pronominal verb constructions in Spanish 21
  7. On the grammaticality of recomplementation in Spanish 39
  8. Synchronic change in a multidialectal Spanish community 53
  9. Exploring the syntax-semantics-prosody interface 73
  10. Generalized gradability and extremeness in Puerto Rican Spanish 95
  11. On the mistaken identity of negated epistemics 111
  12. The mestizo speech 131
  13. Stressed clitics in Argentine Spanish 149
  14. On the simplification of a prosodic inventory 171
  15. Segmental anchoring in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish intonation 191
  16. The prosody-pragmatics interface in the pragmaticalization of ¡Hombre! as a discourse marker 211
  17. Sociolinguistic implications on perception 241
  18. Vosotros , ustedes , and the myth of the symmetrical Castilian pronoun system 263
  19. Microvariation in the Null Subject Parameter 281
  20. An analysis of subjunctive frequency and semantic predictors of mood in Central Argentinian Spanish 301
  21. The future is in the past 317
  22. Double possession in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish 335
  23. Index 355
Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics
This chapter is in the book Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.12.06pad

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Introduction ix
  5. Towards a theory of assertion structure 1
  6. Towards a theory of pronominal verb constructions in Spanish 21
  7. On the grammaticality of recomplementation in Spanish 39
  8. Synchronic change in a multidialectal Spanish community 53
  9. Exploring the syntax-semantics-prosody interface 73
  10. Generalized gradability and extremeness in Puerto Rican Spanish 95
  11. On the mistaken identity of negated epistemics 111
  12. The mestizo speech 131
  13. Stressed clitics in Argentine Spanish 149
  14. On the simplification of a prosodic inventory 171
  15. Segmental anchoring in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish intonation 191
  16. The prosody-pragmatics interface in the pragmaticalization of ¡Hombre! as a discourse marker 211
  17. Sociolinguistic implications on perception 241
  18. Vosotros , ustedes , and the myth of the symmetrical Castilian pronoun system 263
  19. Microvariation in the Null Subject Parameter 281
  20. An analysis of subjunctive frequency and semantic predictors of mood in Central Argentinian Spanish 301
  21. The future is in the past 317
  22. Double possession in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish 335
  23. Index 355
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