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- PublicationOpen Access"Más tontos que el novio de la Chelo". La intensificación de la estulticia en foros y chats por medio de comparaciones creativas: una aproximación desde la Gramática de construcciones.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Ivorra Ordines, Pedro; Mellado Blanco, CarmenAdopting a corpus-based approach, the main aim of this study is to inductively describe the intensifying comparative construction [ser más tonto que X]: ‘be foolish in its highest degree’. Therefore, it will be applied the Construction Grammar approach. In this sense, lexical "llers of the slot X will be quantitatively and qualitatively analysed in order to determine the entrenchment and productivity of the construction, as well as to "nd out potential recurrent traits of its creativity. This study aims to show the "ne line between lexicalised and creative units,, the latter being the most predominant.