The syntax and semantics of expressives in the Spanish nominal domain

SAAB, ANDRÉS

Conferencia; Abralin ao Vivo ? Linguists Online, Associação Brasileira de Lingüística; 2021

ABRALIN

I offer detailed analyses of epithets and other sorts of Spanish expressives with the aim of extracting relevant theses on the very syntactic and semantic nature of the grammar of expressivity. As we will see, a proper analysis of Spanish expressives has large empirical and theoretical consequences regarding the syntax and semantics of predication in the nominal domain, the internal structure of DPs and the way in which is advisable to model expressive contents in the semantics.