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Addenda to the Comparison of Inequality in Spanish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Dwight L. Bolinger
Dwight L. Bolinger*
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University of Southern California
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Language , Volume 29 , Issue 1: January-March , March 1953, pp. 62 - 66
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Copyright © 1953 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Revue de linguistique romane 6.129-51 (1930).

2 Raymond L. Grismer and Doris King Arjona, The pageant of Spain 122 (New York, 1938).

3 Keniston, Expressions for than 138.

4 Cf. this additional example of mayor for más : mayor mal del que me ha sucedido no puede sucederme (G. A. Becquer, Legends, tales, and poems 40 [ed. Olmstead; New York, 1907]); and the invented example La parte es menos que el todo, judged possible by a Castilian speaker alongside of menos de (but menos de, not que, mi porción, parte, cuota, etc.).

5 Bello (§1021) implies that mayor (menor) de veinticinco años is elliptical for que de. The contamination described here is probably a factor.

6 Pepita Jiménez 124 (Clásicos castellanos).

7 J. Figueroa Campos, El misterio de los guantes negros 30 (Buenos Aires, 1947). This reference, and others marked GPS, were supplied by G. P. Sullivan.

8 Subsequent references are to pages of my earlier study.

9 Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Amor se escribe sin hache (Buenos Aires, 1945). GPS.

10 Letter from León Sánchez Cuesta, 7 July 1949.

11 Antonio Azorín, Old Spain 82 (New York, 1928). GPS.

12 Advertisement in Collier's for 12 August 1939, p. 48.

13 J. M. Pereda, Peñas arriba 1.82 (Buenos Aires, 1942). GPS.

14 Tomás Navarro, Fonologia española 49 (Syracuse, 1946); and J. Ortega y Gasset, Revista de occidente 5.30 (1927). The latter reference supplied by Joseph Silverman.

15 Azorín 32; and Agapito Rey, Hispania 32.403 (1949).

16 Azorín 56.

17 Much is also a test for the assimilation of prefer to the comparative: I much prefer it, but not I much like it.

18 Samuel Gili Gaya, Revista de filología española 30.116 (1946).

19 The parallel example from Keniston, Syntax of Castillan prose §26.441, is lo tal creo con más veras de lo que se me puede decir, where más ‘logically modifies the adverbial phrase con veras’.

20 Pío Baroja, Paradox, Rey 51 (New York, 1937).

21 Keniston, Syntax of Castilian prose §26.441, cites porque no uuiesse dentro del Alhambra más mal de lo que podia aver con la gente que avía dentro.

22 Revista de los archivos nacionales de Costa Rica 12:1/2.52; ibid. 48.