{"title":"Perspectivized estar-sentences with aesthetic adjectives across American Spanish\u0000 varieties","authors":"Silvia Gumiel-Molina, Norberto Moreno-Quibén, Isabel Pérez-Jiménez","doi":"10.1075/sic.00086.gum","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00086.gum","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The article describes the behavior of aesthetic adjectives (bonito ‘beautiful’) in the so-called\u0000 innovative constructions with estar ‘be\u0000 estar\u0000 ’, documented in some American varieties of\u0000 Spanish. These innovative structures (El poema está bonito ‘The poem is beautiful’) do not compare stages of the\u0000 subject with respect to an aesthetic property (as would be their meaning in general Spanish), but rather express a perspectivized\u0000 assertion, linked to the subjective judgment of the speaker about a particular quality. The article explains this pattern of\u0000 variation on the basis of the work by Gumiel-Molina, Moreno-Quibén and Pérez-Jiménez\u0000 (2020) and Moreno-Quibén (2022), according to which the classes of\u0000 adjectives that appear in perspectivized estar-sentences have undergone a process of argument augmentation.\u0000 Aesthetic adjectives in innovative estar-construction have an experiencer in their argument structure in the\u0000 varieties of Spanish where this construction is possible. This experiencer serves as the basis for establishing the comparison\u0000 required by estar and ultimately gives rise to the subjective/perspectivized meaning of the copular\u0000 structure.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47255788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}