Una “buena” manera de hablar acerca de grados

Bien con adjetivos en español

Bibliographic Data

ID19544169
AuthorsAlberto Pastor (Southern Methodist University), Grant Armstrong (University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume9
Issue2
Pages401-427
Publication date2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1939-0238 • E-ISSN: 2199-3386
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/shll-2016-0016
OpenAlexW2525052268
LanguageES
References cited16

This article provides a detailed description of the syntactic and semantic properties of the degree term bien in Spanish, which appears in expressions such as un jugador bien alto , and proposes a novel analysis that captures those properties. We propose that bien is a degree operator that is generated as a Deg head and binds the degree argument of a gradable adjective by means of an evaluative predicate we label GOOD. We define a “good degree” as one that evaluates a property with respect to a comparison class that exceeds a prototypical or expected standard. Un jugador bien alto is a player that is tall in a way that exceeds a prototypical or expected way of being tall for a player. It is argued that such an analysis not only accounts for the mixed set of properties that bien has, which overlap with certain degree modifiers, elatives and exclamatives, but does so in terms of a manner component (the predicate GOOD), which is part of the lexical meaning that bien has maintained in its evolution from manner adverb to degree term

Adjective · Adverb · Humanities · Linguistics · Noun · Verb · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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