Grammaticization, synchronic variation, and language contact : a study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions
Rena Torres Cacoullos
This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases. Formal reduction results in the emergence of auxilliary-plus-gerund sequences as fused units. Semantically, the constructions originate as spatial expressions; their grammaticization involves gradual loss of locative features of meaning. Semantic generalization among parallel evolutionary paths results in the competition a.
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Godina:
2000
Izdavač:
J. Benjamins
Jezik:
english
Strane:
271
ISBN 10:
902729870X
ISBN 13:
9789027298706
Serije:
Studies in language companion series, v. 52
Fajl:
PDF, 1.08 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2000
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