Abstract

PATO, Enrique. Un poco equals 'a lot': About the forms un pocotón, un pocotón y un pocotonón, un pocononón. Cuad. Lingüíst. Col. Méx. [online]. 2016, vol.3, n.1, pp.183-200.  Epub Nov 25, 2024. ISSN 2007-736X.  https://doi.org/10.24201/clecm.v3i1.29.

This short article describes, through examples drawn from various sources, four Spanish grammatical forms from several Latin American countries: pocotón, poconón, pocotonón y pocononón. These adverbial pseudo-partitive locutions serve to express quantification and emphasis, and its semantic value is similar to ‘much/ very much’, ‘loads of’ in General Spanish.

Keywords : Spanish grammar; American Spanish; quantification; pocotón; poconón; pocotonón; pocononón.

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