Patricia Carmen Hernández

Una aproximación cognitiva y construccional al fraseologismo rioplatense ¡Agarrate, Catalina (que vamos a galopar)!

Abstract This paper presents a corpus-based constructional study of the idiom ¡Agarrate, Catalina, que vamos a galopar! (literally ‘Hold on, Catalina, we’re going to gallop!’, meaning ‘Brace yourself!’), which is commonly used in Rioplatense Spanish to warn the interlocutor about...