Gender agreement on adverbs in Spanish
In this article we explore the exceptional gender agreement of the Spanish adverb mucho (‘much’), when it modifies comparative adjectives inside DPs that contain a particular type of noun (as in muchafem mejor intenciónfem, ‘much better intention’). This phenomenon, which we describe in detail, rais...
Main Authors: | Antonio Fábregas, Isabel Pérez |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2008-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics |
Online Access: | http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/126 |
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