| Summary: | In the Spanish language, the noun pinche has gathered new meanings and acquired new distributional patterns owing to specific contexts of use that have motivated a double refunctionalization. The purpose of this research is to illustrate the chain of reanalysis that pinche has gone though in the history of Spanish: first, from noun to adjective [El pinche de cocina > La pinche soledad (The kitchen assistant > Fucking loneliness)], and then from adjective to adverb [Tus pinches mentiras > Te pinches amo (Your fucking lies > I fucking love you)]. I will explain the obscure origin of the noun pinche as a way to understanding the underlying motivation which facilitated its first reanalysis. In the light of the results, I will describe the syntactic and semantic-pragmatic contexts that favored the refunctionalization of pinche. Finally, I will present evidence for a yet barely studied grammaticalization cline in the history of languages: the adjective > adverb cline.
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