Adjetivos relacionales: un estudio contrastivo alemán-español basado en un corpus literario

Relational adjectives differ significantly between German and Spanish and have traditionally been studied in economic and legal texts. This contribution aims to conduct a contrastive analysis, examine the position of these adjectives between morphology and syntax, and assess their relative presence in literary texts. The study is based on a literary corpus comprising three of Cervantes’s "Novelas ejemplares" and their respective German translations. Initial findings suggest a limited occurrence of this type of adjective in literary texts, in line with existing research. The significance of this contribution lies in examining relational adjectives in a type of text in which they have rarely been studied.