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This study sought to explore the advanced lexicon, one of the hallmarks of text quality. To this end, we analysed the advanced lexicon deployed in the production of two types of texts -- a descriptive and an argumentative -- by Hebrew-speaking school children. Our study had two goals, the first to trace the developmental path of the use of advanced lexicon in writing scholastic types of texts. The second goal was to investigate the relations between literacy-related abilities and the use of advanced lexicon in writing. Accordingly, 292 Israeli grade-school children (second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-graders) were administered a linguistic, cognitive, reading and spelling test battery and produced two descriptive and two argumentative texts. The texts were analysed for noun abstractness, occurrence of internal-state verbs and the morphological complexity of adjectives. Findings showed an age-related increase in both literacy-related abilities and the lexical quality in the texts. Moreover, interactions found between lexical quality, age and genre suggest that text quality is dynamic, determined by a network of differential age- and literacy-related factors. [Translation from English by Mercè Rius.]

The adverbial phrase "a lo mejor" (at best) does not take the subjunctive, although other adverbial expressions of possibility may be followed by either indicative or subjunctive. Examines statements co-occurring with "a lo mejor" from the viewpoint of statement and mood, taking into account communicative discourse function. The study shows that "a lo mejor" does not allow the subjunctive mood. (CNP/Author)

Analysis of the indicative-subjunctive alternation in the compliment of interrogative utterances with the verb "creer" shows that the "modality of reserved epistemic" determines choice of subjunctive. This determination contributes to a hypothesis about the nature of the subjunctive in Spanish. (CP)

Lists the Spanish verbs most frequently used, in order of frequency. (NCR)

Discusses ways of teaching complementary pronouns in Spanish, includinq pronouns of direct objects, reflexive verbs, and indirect objects. (NCR)

Lists the Spanish verbs most frequently used in various texts, in order of frequency. (NCR)

Presents practice drills on verb forms, pronouns, prepositions, and comparatives for Spanish students. (NCR)

Discusses the infrequently used Spanish future subjunctive ending "-re." (NCR)

In this research, we sought to establish whether adult non-native English speakers interpret aspectual phrasal verbs by means of the continuous or discontinuous position of the particle that goes with them and whether this is related to their level of proficiency in English as a second language (L2). An image selection task was designed and applied to adult native and non-native English speakers, the latter were divided into four groups based on their hours of exposure to the target language (100–200 h, 300–400 h, 600–700 h, +1000 h.). The results obtained suggest that the position of the particle can sometimes affect the interpretation of phrasal verbs of English by non-native speakers; however, this does not occur in the same way for all phrasal verbs, since the interpretation is also linked to the category to which they belong and to the particle present in each case. Finally, non-native speakers of English with a greater number of hours of exposure to the target language do not have a significantly different performance from non-native speakers when interpreting phrasal verbs, although in some cases the differences are pronounced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses mood selection in evaluative noun clauses introduced by the neutral article lo. There exist mutually exclusive theories: while certain authors speculate that mood has an impact on an informative level, according to others the subordinate clause of these syntactic constructions always represents rhematic information, regardless of the mood of their verb. To discover which of these speculations is valid, we analysed 4222 cases in the Corpes XXI and determined the frequency with which indicative and subjunctive appear with different verbs and adjectives in the syntactic structures considered. Data demonstrate that either one mood or another is increasingly used in an exclusive way in conformity with the semantic and frequency of the adjective or verb that induces it. This observation not only is solely compatible with the exclusive rhematic value of the subordinate clause, but also with the other secondary theories on the structures here considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article seeks to provide some useful guidelines to address pronominal verbs and the reflexive pronoun without nominal function in the classroom in an effective and enriching way. From a bibliographical type of research, theoretical methods are used such as documentary analysis, inductive and deductive methods that allowed the research to be developed. After exploring the considerations about pronominal verbs and the reflexive pronoun "se" in the educational context, we can conclude that These grammatical aspects are fundamental for mastering Spanish as a foreign language or second language. We have seen that their proper understanding and application are essential for effective communication and accurate expression in Spanish and we have observed that teaching these linguistic elements can present challenges for students, especially those whose native language does not have similar structures. However, we have also highlighted pedagogical strategies that can help overcome these difficulties and facilitate the learning of pronominal verbs and the reflexive pronoun "se". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on Spanish benefactive constructions examines mostly one type of beneficiary: the one acting as a potential recipient. However, some studies, including Van Valin and LaPolla (1997), Smith (2005, 2010), and Kitillä and Zúñiga (2010), argue that benefaction can be expressed in different ways, depending on the involvement of the positively affected participant in the event described in the sentence. Following this idea, we analyze various types of benefaction in Spanish, particularly those where the beneficiaries are coded in phrases introduced by the prepositions por and para. We employ the taxonomy proposed by Van Valin and LaPolla (1997), which classifies beneficiaries into three types: the recipient, the deputative, and the plain beneficiary. Analysis of our sample shows the presence of all three types. Their use is related to specific semantic and syntactic factors, such as the preposition that introduces them (either por or para or both), the verbal valency of the clause nucleus and its semantic class, and the concrete or abstract attribute of the second arguments of bivalent and trivalent verbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is a review of a book edited by José Miguel Baños, María Dolores Jiménez López, María Isabel Jiménez Martínez, and Cristina Tur, which focuses on verb-nominal collocations (CVN) in classical and romance languages, especially in classical and post-classical Latin. The book addresses questions about the characteristics, comparisons, and linguistic principles of CVNs, as well as their evolution over time. Different metaphorical schemes in Latin that contribute to the choice of collocative verbs and the semantic values of CVNs expressing emotions are examined. The use of inchoative CVNs and the construction "gratiam inire" in different contexts are also analyzed. The study highlights the importance of studying collocations from a historical perspective and provides a positive evaluation of the book, although it mentions some oversights in editing and the possibility of reinforcing negative stereotypes about indigenous languages. [Extracted from the article]

This paper intends to explore the grammatical properties and meaning of pseudo-coordinative structures, as agarra y les paga or va y se muere, registered in different colloquial varieties of Spanish speaking countries. Pseudo-coordination produces grammaticalized constructions of two verbal forms inflected on the same morphological categories and united by the conjuction y, which denotate a unique event, since the first verb is desemantized or grammaticalized. A relevant fact is that the same grammaticalized verbs intervening on pseudo-coordinative structures (besides ir and agarrar, venir, coger, pillar, saltar and llegar, and the more novel volver, arrancar, largarse, lanzarse, ponerse, meterse, mandarse) function (or functioned) as periphrastic auxiliary verbs, often with an inchoative or ingressive meaning. Empirically, the paper concentrates on determine the grammatical distribution of pseudocoordinative structures, differentiating them to inchoative periphrasis, in order to offer a consistent syntactic and semantic analysis of these constructions. This will lead us to conclude that the primary meaning of grammaticalized pseudo-coordinative structures is aorist aspect (Smith, 1991; Camus Bergareche, 2004), in the same lines as Coseriu (1966) and in opposition to recent perspectives, as García Sánchez (2007) and Jaque et al. (2018, 2019). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the grammaticalization of future and conditional tenses in Navarro-Aragonese and Medieval Castilian during the 13th and 14th centuries. It examines the variation between synthetic verb forms with postposed object pronouns and analytic forms with mesoclitic pronouns, and shows that Navarro-Aragonese has a higher frequency of use of synthetic forms. It is concluded that the advancement of this change may have started in the northern Pyrenees and then spread through language and dialect contact in the Iberian Peninsula. [Extracted from the article]

This work centers on the strategies by means of which some verbs classified as intransitives, with a view to their basic lexical meaning, modify their argument structure when showing transitive behavior. Our point of departure is a study of four verbal items (descansar 'to rest', despertar 'to wake up', trabajar 'to work' and vivir 'to live'), which exhibit transitivization processes in actual language use (CORPES XXI), and building on its results we identify recurring mechanisms that are extensible to the Spanish intransitive class as a whole. Specifically, we discuss the phenomenon of causativization, which arises in all those cases where the added participant becomes the clausal subject, on one hand, and, on the other, we examine the diversity of structures generated by the addition of an entity appearing in the direct object position. The prominent feature associated with the second set of constructions lies in the heterogeneity they display not only in terms of the types of objects involved but also with respect to the effects produced on the semantics and the syntax of the verb. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the central debates in current Linguistics revolves around the consideration of the grammatical categories of noun and verb as discrete or gradual categories. In this work, I start from the evidence on the acquisition, processing, and production of these two lexical classes in healthy speakers and speakers with language or cognitive impairments to argue that, from a neurocognitive perspective, they are discrete. Additionally, I analyze the type of conditioning of categorical dissociation in order to argue that the proceduralization of linguistic function during the lifespan leads to the generation of the grammatical-semantic nature of lexical classes. In doing so, I review and analyze the results of a series of experimental studies, mainly neurofunctional and neurocognitive in nature, which allow me to compare categorical dissociation and its causative dissociation in children, adults, and elderly individuals with both healthy and different types of cognitive disorders (SLI, ASD; aphasias; SD, and AD). The main conclusion of my work is that, in neurocognitive terms, nouns and verbs are discrete grammatical categories, which develop grammatical-semantic graduality with the proceduralization of language function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the classical debate between the discrete or continuous nature of linguistic phenomena, there is controversy regarding the relationship between different lexical categories and the internal relationship between the different words that are part of a specific category. In this contribution, we present the results of topological studies provided by Neurolinguistics and studies of acquisition, loss, processing, and storage conducted in Psycholinguistics to try to verify if there is any evidence in favor of or against the discrete nature of lexical categories, with special attention to the distinction between nouns and verbs and to the Indo-European languages. As a result of this work, we consider that there are sufficient indications to suggest that speakers distinguish lexical categories discreetly and homogeneously, but also establish a series of additional correlations between the members of these categories and different properties (among which the semantic component stands out). In this sense, we believe it is necessary to distinguish between these two levels of study: the discrete and automated nature of lexical categories and the various correlations that both speakers and researchers themselves can make with different study variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this research, I analyze dímelo a mí and di que sí, two expressions that have as their origin a complete sentence structure and as their nucleus the verb decir. From a designative point of view, these forms constitute exhortative statements in which the interlocutor is asked to provide certain information (dímelo a mí) or to respond affirmatively (di que sí). However, in colloquial interaction, these forms seem to have developed macrostructural values that are inscribed in the modal and argumentative plane when they are registered in reactive intervention. In this dialogical context, they are used to express confirmation and agreement regarding the previous initiative intervention and, at the same time, they constitute argumentative responses co-oriented with the interlocutor, in which the positive modal contents appear intensified. To reflect the multidimensional and polyfunctional nature of these expressions, we take as a reference the theoretical model of Macrosyntax, developed by Fuentes Rodríguez (2013, 2017a, 2019). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The subject of this article is the expression of causative movement events in German and Spanish. It is hypothesized that, being respectively a satellite frame language and a verbal frame language, it is likely that both differ in the syntactic order with which the semantic material of the aforementioned events is expressed, a question already studied for this pair of languages in the intransitive movement events. It is especially interesting to analyse this possible interlingual difference in statements with types of verbs that cannot necessarily be expected to develop the triargumental scheme of these causative events (agent subject, affected object and dynamic locative complement) due to their basic argument structure. This contribution specifically studies the possible development of these triargumental structures by the so-called verbs of contact by impact. To do this, a one-way contrastive analysis is carried out, from German to Spanish, of a corpus of pairs of statements extracted from the PaGeS corpus. The results certify the existence of the phenomenon in both languages, but also point to important interlingual differences in their productivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]