Semantic polyfunctionality and constructional networks

Subtitle:on insubordinate subjunctive complement constructions in Spanish

This paper offers an analysis of insubordinate subjunctive complement clauses (ISCs) in Spanish and aims to contribute to the general debate in Construction Grammar on how to deal with a highly pragmatically specified surface form that expresses several meanings. We explore whether the meanings expressed by ISCs are encoded in the construction or can be derived via independently existing principles of pragmatic interpretation. The results of the analysis are represented in a constructional network.

Publication year:2021

Keywords:A1 Journal article

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