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- Title
Procesos de formación de conectores aditivos en español medieval.
- Authors
Azofra Sierra, M. Elena
- Abstract
This paper examines the functioning and evolution of the adverbs demás, además, and encima from the first existing texts until the 15th century. Our purpose is double: on the one hand, to describe the process that conforms the adverbs into discourse markers specialized in an additive meaning; on the other hand, to contribute to their lexicographical description in a historical dictionary. We analyze their grammaticalization processes and verify in texts the loss of demás, the advance of además--which will become the prototype item of this sort of connectors--, and the acquisition by encima of a subjective meaning --the most important feature as an additive connector--, may be connected with the meaning of the substantive cima in certain contexts during the Middle Ages.
- Subjects
ADVERBS (Grammar); SPANISH language -- To 1500; SPANISH language -- Grammar, Historical; HISTORICAL linguistics; WORD formation (Grammar); SYNTAX (Grammar)
- Publication
RILCE. Revista de Filología Hispánica, 2012, Vol 28, Issue 2, p351
- ISSN
0213-2370
- Publication type
Article