Variation in interrogative adverbials: 'cuán', 'qué tan', 'cómo de','lo que' and 'lo'+adj./adv.+'que'
Cuán, qué tan, and cómo de are used to modify adverbs and adjectives in interrogatives. They are also used in embedded clauses along with lo que. Instances of these expressions were extracted from the Corpus del Español. In interrogatives, qué tan was the most frequent. The idea that cuán is archaic...
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/4909 |