Abstract

GIAMMATTEO, Mabel; ALBANO, Hilda  and  TROMBETTA, Augusto M.. CON LAS MANOS EN LA MASA: COGNITIVE ASPECTS AND METAPHORICAL VALUES OF CON + ABSOLUTE CLAUSE CONSTRUCTIONS. Lingüística [online]. 2012, vol.27, n.1, pp.6-17. ISSN 2079-312X.

Within a wider research on syntactic, semantic and discursive features of con + absolute clause constructions (Giammatteo et al. 2006 and 2010), in this article we study a particular subset of these: those that refer to a part of the body (con la boca abierta, con las manos atadas, con los pies sobre la tierra, con el rabo entre las piernas). These are structures with varying degrees of lexicalization, whose two constituents, unitarily, display adjective value, and whose internal analysis shows that one of these refers to a body part, while the other adopts modal values or locative-orientational. From a semantic point of view, all these constructions are usually interpreted in a metaphorical sense, which corroborates the postures that hold more abstract meanings derived from basic cognitive experiences: the perception of the body and the relationship with the immediate environment.

Keywords : con + absolute clause constructions; cognitive aspects; metaphorical interpretation; lexicalization.

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