A lo mejor y el subjuntivo

Wasa, Atsuko

doi:10.2307/4141206

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“…One such process is the adverbialization of the patterns "a + nominal" (Martínez López 1999) and "de + nominal" (Martínez/Jørgensen 2013). Some PA-patterns have been studied exhaustively, for instance, a lo mejor, which has been analyzed with regard to the use of the subjunctive (Wasa 2002) or in relation to the use of quizá and seguramente (Barrios Sabator 2015). Marcos Sánchez (2005) studied particulary the PA adverbial por lo visto.…”

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Prepositional adverbials in the diachrony of Romance: a state of the art

Hummel¹,

Chircu

Sánchez

et al. 2019

Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie

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The paper provides a state of the art in research on prepositional adverbials in Romance that combine a preposition with an adjective, e.g., Sp. en breve ‘in short’ (= PA-pattern). It therefore reviews the existing bibliography on Romance in general, Latin, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish. The theoretical background is the hypothesis that the PA-pattern could have played a relevant role as a third way of forming adverbials in the diachrony of Romance, paralleling adverbial adjectives (e.g., breve used as an adverb: hablar breve) and derived adverbs (e.g., brevemente). The review confirms that the PA-pattern is marginal in (written) Latin but rises abruptly in early Romance, suggesting a “hidden” past in spoken Latin. This is corroborated by the fact that similar PA-patterns are used in all Romance languages. However, these insights have often to be deduced from marginal observations on the adverbials in use. As yet, research has not systematically studied the role of PA adverbials in the diachrony of Romance.

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Section: Spanish (David Porcel Bueno)mentioning

confidence: 99%