The 'relative superlative' in Spanish: relative or comparative? ; La que-phrase « superlative relative » en espagnol : relative ou comparative ?
national audience Traditionally, Spanish grammar places 'superlativesrelative' constructions (esp. 'superlativas relativas') at the crossroads of comparative and desrelatives.The resemblance of 'relative superlatives' to comparisons appears, in effect, immediately: in both cases quantitative or qualitative emodification takes place in the bidding segment. Emodifier of 'relative superlatives', known as 'relative superlative', takes the form of a comparative (adverb or adjective) 'quantifier' accompanied by a defined article belonging to the SN which it amends. The modification which quantifiers and 'relative superlatives' operate on the elements carrying properties is not intended to characterise them in the leurindividuality, as an adjective to a name ('una mujer joven': a young woman) or an adverb vis-à-vis a verb ('la casa está lejos': House is far away). Modifiers such as más ('plus'), menos ('less'), peor ('worse', 'worse'), mejor ('better', 'better') or mayor ('plusgrand') have the property of being concerned in relation to another element, whether quantitatively or qualitatively competing. the commonly-observed parallelism between comparative constructions and 'superlatives' ends with the first term of these structures, since, in the first case, the phrase is referred to as 'comparative', which is understood without too much difficulty, in the second case, many authors put the category of relative in the category of 'standard'. They nevertheless note a distinctive characteristic in relation to the latter: the phrase 'relative superlatives' is not intended to characterise a nominal entity. its function is to define the field in which the relative superlative changes to the first term, hence the name 'restrictor' applied to it (SAEZ DEL Álamo, 1999). This contrasting overview of the functioning of structures called 'relative superlatives', relative and comparative does not give rise to obvious contextual affinities between the former and the second. "relative superlative" structures and comparative ...