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DE LA PRÉTENDUE VALEUR DUELLE DU SUFFIXE -ÓN EN ESPAGNOL / THE ALLEGED DOUBLE VALUE OF THE SUFFIX -ÓN IN SPANISH
THE ALLEGED DOUBLE VALUE OF THE SUFFIX - ÓN IN SPANISH

Author(s): Stéphane Pagès
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: suffix; augmentative; ambivalence; signifier.

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at reflecting on the alleged double value of the suffix -ón in Spanish and at proposing the hypothesis of semantic neutralization with a strictly intensive value.

  • Issue Year: 55/2010
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 67-82
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French