La concesividad como complemento argumental: Pragmática i gramática comparada en asturiano y castellano

Asturian grammar distinguishes semantic references of mass and individual nouns by means of agreement with adjectives and clitics. But the morphological category of mass neuter in Asturian also develops in utterances a sophisticated specification system that goes from the expression of holistic perceptions till the accurate individualization of a referent. The contrast between some of theese uses and its equivalents in Spanish highlights some remarkable mechanisms, as those by means of which, under certain semantic or pragmatic conditions, an adjective complement achieves the expression of a contrafactual, concesive value, involving the noun object into a net of assumptions, not explicit in sentence.