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Combinatorial Productivity of Spanish Verbal Periphrases as an Indicator of Their Degree of Grammaticalization KU Leuven
Studies on the constitution of the Spanish periphrastic system show that there is a great ease with which verbal periphrases admit different lexical items in the second verb slot as they go through their grammaticalization process. However, it has not been sufficiently explored whether the evolution of combinatorial patterns in near-synonymous periphrases follows similar grammati-calization paths. Adopting a constructionist, usage-based ...
¿Cómo explicar el cambio lingüístico marginal? Los modelos lingüísticos actuales y el estudio de los marginalia KU Leuven
En este trabajo proponemos una reflexión acerca de la relevancia teórica y empírica de abordar el estudio del cambio lingüístico histórico tomando en consideración los marginalia, esto es, fenómenos que tipológicamente no son excepcionales, pero que han sido ignorados en la investigación lingüística. El objetivo es llamar la atención sobre la visión de túnel que las teorías lingüísticas suelen comportar, puesto que los propios paradigmas y los ...
A semiotic approach to grammaticalization: modelling representational and interpersonal modality expressed by verbonominal patterns KU Leuven
This paper develops a framework capable of analysing modal qualifications coded by both canonical modal markers and grammaticalized expressions within a semiotic grammar approach (McGregor 1997). We focus on grammatical constructions that developed from complement constructions containing the shell nouns need, way, chance, doubt, question and wonder, often preceded by a negative quantifier. We range the different types of modal qualification in ...
How sentence type influences the interpretation of Spanish future constructions KU Leuven
It is well known that Spanish futurizing morphology is frequently used not to express futurity, but instead to formulate a hypothesis, i.e. express epistemic modality. Although this is possible with both synthetic or periphrastic future marking, the synthetic future tense is more likely to express an epistemic reading than the periphrastic future. This paper explores the relationship between futurizing morphology and sentence type on the basis ...