Héctor Hernández Arocha - Böcker

For the first time in the history of research both in Spanish and German linguistics, this book undertakes a comparative study of the lexical structures commonly understood as ‘word families’ and the theoretical and methodological bases of their analysis. Using the word families derived from dec(ir) and sag(en) as a main reference point, the study discusses different theoretical approaches and positions.

This collection of essays discusses the linguistic categorization of semantic aspects in Spanish and their interrelations with lexicology, morphology, and syntax. From a number of different perspectives, the essays study phenomena such as lexicalization, grammaticalization, lexical and grammatical classes, compositionality, argument structure, lexical aspects, and the categories of language and reality.