Los rasgos de significado gramatical de dentro, adentro, fuera y afuera en el español mexicano

Abstract

The components of grammatical meaning contained in dentro, adentro, fuera and afuera determine the distribution that these lexical items have before the verb. The verb assigns syntactic functions to the components; such assignation will depend on the semantics of the verb, and the functions that dentro, adentro, fuera and afuera take in the clause, as arguments or adjuncts. Under specific circumstances, verbs do not activate the grammatical component ORIENTATION contained in adentro and afuera. This meaning then remains present without taking any function in the syntax. The distribution of these words in Mexican Spanish differs in specific aspects from what has been described for other dialects.