TY - JOUR AU - Pardo-Llibrer, Adrià PY - 2018/12/03 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Entre la sintaxis y el discurso: el caso de 'a lo mejor' y 'al menos' en la conversación coloquial JF - Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics JA - Borealis VL - 7 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.7557/1.7.2.4318 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/4318 SP - 237-266 AB - <p>This paper studies the Spanish forms <em>a lo mejor</em> (<em>maybe</em>) and <em>al menos</em> (<em>at least</em>) from a modular perspective, revisiting the categorization of <em>a lo major</em> and <em>al menos</em> according to the involved linguistic level and analyzing the relations between the adverbial uses of these forms and the discursive ones. Such relations show that the forms <em>a lo mejor</em> and <em>al menos</em> can be considered bicategorial lexical items, what is implemented by a corpus study based on data from spoken language.</p> ER -