On the Meaning of Prepositional Resultatives with hasta in Contemporary Peninsular Spanish: A Preliminary Corpus-Based Analysis

  1. Beatriz Rodríguez Arrizabalaga
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RAEL: revista electrónica de lingüística aplicada

ISSN: 1885-9089

Año de publicación: 2022

Volumen: 21

Número: 1

Páginas: 179-197

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Resumen

This paper offers the most significant results derived from the preliminary semantic analysis carried out on the 455 Spanish prepositional resultatives headed by the telic preposition hasta that conform our corpus. Specifically, we will show that their meaning is not homogenous since two clear cases are to be differentiated: on the one hand, those which have literal meaning, like hasta la muerte in La misma asesina, por lo tanto, que torturó a Loperena hasta la muerte, and on the other, those with a figurative interpretation, like hasta el agotamiento in La curiosidad lo hizo esforzarse hasta el agotamiento. Though both readings entail a hyperbolic meaning of excess and exaggeration, we will demonstrate, furthermore, that only the latter, called degree resultatives, following Hoeksema and Napoli (2019), have recently developed an intensifying function in the language which is increasingly growing as time goes by.

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