Abstract

Abstract – The present paper aims at analysing the deep pragmatic equilavence relation existing between the so called Spanish support verb constructions formed by a verb + noun ( hacer + sugerencia ; dar + permiso ). We will focus our attention on the functioning of such expressions as speech acts in order to demonstrate that on the basis of their semantic characteristics, there no always exists a perfect equivalence between the verbal expression and the verb as such in terms of realizing a speech act.

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