Las locuciones adjetivo-adverbiales en francés y en español, ¿problema fraseológico o lexicográfico?

Abstract

In the Hispanic and Francophone sphere, researchers have prioritized the locutions studies using a syntactic-functional criterion. However, this criterion, sometimes, lacks reliability, because certain units present the possibility of oscillation between two grammatical categories. This is the case, among others, of certain locutions with a prepositional phrase structure (en cruz, a ciegas, por defecto, de por vida, etc.), characterized by a syntactic duality that leads them to behave as adjective or adverbial locution. In this way, we may reflect on whether these are locutions that prototypically belong to the category of adverb or adjective and that, eventually, would work like the other or, on the contrary, the creation of a hybrid locutionary class (adjective-adverbial) is necessary. We also consider if the coining of this new subclass of locutions would be pertinent from a lexicographical perspective, especially bilingual Spanish-French.