Grammaticization, synchronic variation, and language contact :: a study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions /

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...

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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2000.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in language companion series ; v. 52.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.
ISBN:9789027298706
902729870X
9781556199387
1556199384
9789027230553
9027230552
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9781282162938