La formación de adjetivos denominales a partir de zoónimos en español

Abstract

Ol’ga LISYOVÁ: Formation of Denominal Adjectives from Zoonyms in Spanish. The main base of classification for adjectives is the complex semantic - word producing criterion. By understanding the linguistic signum in its dialectic unity, in Slavic philology three types of adjectives are traditionally selected: possessive, relative, and qualitative. The presence or absence of two basic features (the capability of derivation and graduation) determines the position of individual adjectives on the axis, beginning, on the one end, with possessive adjectives and ending, at the other, with qualitative adjectives. In this article, we consider the position of the adjectives formed from “animal” substantives in Spanish. The apparatus for word formation is studied and the most productive suffixes are selected. Based on the corpus analyzed here, the main semantic and word producing differences between possessive adjectives in Slovak and in Spanish are pointed out, and certain possibilities of their classification are discussed.