Spanish individual-level and stage-level adjectives revisited
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As is known, Spanish (along with other Romance languages, such as Portuguese and Catalan) has two copular verbs, SER and ESTAR, to express what in other languages (e.g. French or English) is expressed via a single copula. Hence, in French we find Adán est intelligent and also Eva est malade, and in English Adán is intelligent and Eva is ill, in every case using the same copular verb (être in French and to be in English). However, in Spanish we find Adán es inteligente, but not *Eva es enferma; rather, we find Eva está enferma. In a way, we could say that Spanish categorizes illness as something subject to temporal limits which are not applied to intelligence.
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