TIPOS DE RELACIONES CON TRAER, EN CONSTRUCCIONES CON SIGNIFICADO ESTATIVO EN EL ESPA?OL DE MEXICO

The verb traer, when used with a stative meaning, expresses dierent types of relationships between two participants. It expresses possession when traer is similar to tener (to have), in terms of control, alienation, and duration, as in trae una metralleta (he/she has a machine gun). It can also expr...

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Published inForma y función Vol. 26; no. 1; p. 141
Main Authors Álvaro Rábago Tánori, Luisa Josefina Alarcón Neve
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published Bogota Universidad Nacional de Colombia 01.01.2013
Subjects
Linguistics
Spanish language
Spoken language
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Colombia
United States > US
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Summary:The verb traer, when used with a stative meaning, expresses dierent types of relationships between two participants. It expresses possession when traer is similar to tener (to have), in terms of control, alienation, and duration, as in trae una metralleta (he/she has a machine gun). It can also express aectation when it refers to the state the participants are in, that is, an object in a state that can aect the subject; for example, traa el brazo enyesado (his/her arm was in a cast). On the other hand, it can indicate attribution when it expresses a quality or characteristic of the object; in this case, the construction is made up of a characterized subject and an object with its attribute, as in traigo sangre coahuilense (I have Coahuilan blood). Thus, the article compares the uses of traer and tener in two corpora of oral Spanish in Mexico.
ISSN:0120-338X
2256-5469