Universidad de Valladolid * Secretariado de Publicaciones
Abstract:
In Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, the nouns with locative meaning propose a contrastive
analysis that, in other aspects reveals the complexity and richness of the morphological
process witch takes part in the lexical formation. The examination of the different lexical formation
schemes permits us to observe the relation between those most systematic and productive
mechanisms of both languages. Thus, it is verified the equivalence between the nominal nucleus
of the Spanish phrasal composition and the Chinese locative components. However, the Spanish’s
locative nouns seem not to present the similarity to the grammaticalization progress that some
Chinese locative components have experienced, on the other hand, it is pointed out that while
some Chinese locative components achieve certain lexical autonomy in particular context; other
components correspond functionally to the Spanish suffixes elements.
