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MELGAREJO TORRES, Carolina. The Grammatical Meaning Components of dentro, adentro, fuera, and afuera in Mexican Spanish. Anu. let. lingüíst. filol. [online]. 2022, vol.10, n.1, pp.115-150.  Epub 12-Set-2022. ISSN 2448-8224.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.adel.2022.10.1.2877x34.

The components of grammatical meaning contained in dentro, adentro, fuera and afuera determine the distribution that these lexical items have before the verb. The verb assigns syntactic functions to the components; such assignation will depend on the semantics of the verb, and the functions that dentro, adentro, fuera and afuera take in the clause, as arguments or adjuncts. Under specific circumstances, verbs do not activate the grammatical component ORIENTATION contained in adentro and afuera. This meaning then remains present without taking any function in the syntax. The distribution of these words in Mexican Spanish differs in specific aspects from what has been described for other dialects.

Palavras-chave : spatial adverbs; grammatical meaning components; spatial complement; Mexican Spanish; semi-lexicality.