![]() ![]() ![]() Under the assumption that Construction Grammar is a much more suitable approach for the study of semischematic constructions than traditional Phraseology, this contribution aims to describe the five different senses that the construction can adopt, as well as to identify the conceptual fields of the slots that motivate its instances. Against this background, the (‘very ugly’) construction is analysed on the basis of the esTenTen18 corpus, which yields a total of 1,108 occurrences with the intensifying meaning. This study adopts the view that phraseological comparisons underlie constructional idioms, given that they can be considered partially lexically filled patterns, that is, form-meaning pairings endowed with a pragmatic meaning.
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