The lexical-syntactic mechanisms in the Spanish of Spain: A study of cases

Abstract

The relations between lexicon and semantics are still a linguistic field relatively unexplored in comparison with other fields, even though the researches in this sphere are usually limited to very specific elements, such as the metaphors or the phraseological semantics. In recent decades, it begins to emerge a special interest in the impact that the lexicon has in relation with the particular syntagm in which it forms part of. That is considering that every uttered word causes a certain interpretation in the receiver (in an involuntary and instantaneous way) and the success or failure during the communicative act depends, to a great extent, on it. This research has one principal aim which is to give an explanation to certain phenomena that are produced in the lexical-syntactic interface of the selected examples, based, for this, on the most important theories within this linguistic specialty.