{"title":"Perspectivized estar-sentences with aesthetic adjectives across American Spanish\n varieties","authors":"Silvia Gumiel-Molina, Norberto Moreno-Quibén, Isabel Pérez-Jiménez","doi":"10.1075/sic.00086.gum","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n The article describes the behavior of aesthetic adjectives (bonito ‘beautiful’) in the so-called\n innovative constructions with estar ‘be\n estar\n ’, documented in some American varieties of\n Spanish. These innovative structures (El poema está bonito ‘The poem is beautiful’) do not compare stages of the\n subject with respect to an aesthetic property (as would be their meaning in general Spanish), but rather express a perspectivized\n assertion, linked to the subjective judgment of the speaker about a particular quality. The article explains this pattern of\n variation on the basis of the work by Gumiel-Molina, Moreno-Quibén and Pérez-Jiménez\n (2020) and Moreno-Quibén (2022), according to which the classes of\n adjectives that appear in perspectivized estar-sentences have undergone a process of argument augmentation.\n Aesthetic adjectives in innovative estar-construction have an experiencer in their argument structure in the\n varieties of Spanish where this construction is possible. This experiencer serves as the basis for establishing the comparison\n required by estar and ultimately gives rise to the subjective/perspectivized meaning of the copular\n structure.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Spanish in Context","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00086.gum","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The article describes the behavior of aesthetic adjectives (bonito ‘beautiful’) in the so-called
innovative constructions with estar ‘be
estar
’, documented in some American varieties of
Spanish. These innovative structures (El poema está bonito ‘The poem is beautiful’) do not compare stages of the
subject with respect to an aesthetic property (as would be their meaning in general Spanish), but rather express a perspectivized
assertion, linked to the subjective judgment of the speaker about a particular quality. The article explains this pattern of
variation on the basis of the work by Gumiel-Molina, Moreno-Quibén and Pérez-Jiménez
(2020) and Moreno-Quibén (2022), according to which the classes of
adjectives that appear in perspectivized estar-sentences have undergone a process of argument augmentation.
Aesthetic adjectives in innovative estar-construction have an experiencer in their argument structure in the
varieties of Spanish where this construction is possible. This experiencer serves as the basis for establishing the comparison
required by estar and ultimately gives rise to the subjective/perspectivized meaning of the copular
structure.
期刊介绍:
Spanish in Context publishes original theoretical, empirical and methodological studies into pragmatics and sociopragmatics, variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse and conversation analysis, functional contextual analyses, bilingualism, and crosscultural and intercultural communication with the aim of extending our knowledge of Spanish and of these disciplines themselves. This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: IBR/IBZ, European Reference Index for the Humanities, Sociological abstracts, INIST, Linguistic Bibliography, Scopus