Jiménez Ríos, Enrique
Aguafiestas, metepatas y otros compuestos nominales peculiares
JIMÉNEZ RÍOS, Enrique. “Aguafiestas, metepatas y otros compuestos nominales peculiares”. ELUA. Estudios de Lingüística. N. 13 (1999). ISSN 0212-7636, pp. 117-148
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/6303
DOI: 10.14198/ELUA1999.13.05
ISSN: 0212-7636
Abstract: 
This article discusses the internal structure of compounds of the limpiabotas-typte.
The way that some researchers have dealt with them has focused on determining, on
the one hand, which one is the nature of the first element of the compound and, on
the other, how to solve the problem of having to consider them exocentric. In order
to do this, it has been suggested, within the framework of an analysis of the
argument structure of the above complex word, the existence of a deverbal noun as
the head of the compound, in which the item agent is lexicalised without any formal
representation. The ungrammaticality of phrases such as *el limpiabotas de Juan, in
which the same thematic role would be represented twice, explains the suitability of
the proposal, but, on the other hand, that situation does not seem to occur in
sequences such as el aguafiestas o el metepatas de Juan.
Keywords:Compuestos nominales, Formación de palabras, Composición, Estructura sintáctica, Valor semántico, Lengua española
Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura
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