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Combinatorial Productivity of Spanish Verbal Periphrases as an Indicator of Their Degree of Grammaticalization

Languages, 2023
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.
Mar Garachana, María Sol Sansiñena
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Inchoativity and mirativity in Italo-Romance and Balkan Slavic verbal periphrases.

Isogloss
This paper investigates the properties of GO and TAKE used as functional verbs to express the beginning of an action or a state (inchoativity) or a sense of surprise, wonder, astonishment, or regret (mirativity) as found in a group of multiple verb ...
Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro, Luca Molinari
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VERBAL PERIPHRASES OF COGNITIVE MEANING IN MILKA IVIĆ’S SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

Filolog
This paper deals with the use of verbal periphrases with the meaning of cognitive processes in scientific discourse, more precisely, in the texts by Milka Ivić, collected in Linguistic Experiments 1.
Jelena T. Ajdžanović
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Beobachtungen zur diachronischen Entwicklung der Verbal-periphrase GEHEN + PARTIZIP PERFEKT im italienisch-spanischen Sprachvergleich

Linguistik Online, 2021
The verbal periphrases constitute a typological feature of the Romance languages and they are especially frequent in the Iberoromanic languages. In the context of this paper the diachronic evolution of the Italian periphrase andare + participio passato ...
Paul Mayr
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The development of iterative verbal periphrases in Romance [PDF]

Linguistics, 2016
Abstract This paper compares the diachronic development of tornar(e)+a+infinitive (henceforth abbreviated RETURN+INF) constructions in Spanish, Catalan, and Italian, a topic that especially for Catalan and Italian has not received much attention.
Malte Rosemeyer
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Petr Čermák, Dana Kratochvílová, Olga Nádvorníková and Pavel Štichauer (eds.), "Complex Words, Causatives, Verbal Periphrases and The Gerund. Romance languages versus Czech (a parallel corpus-based study)", Karolinum Press, 2020, 163 pp.

Studia Iberystyczne, 2020
Witold Sobczak
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Periphrases in Spanish: properties, diagnostics and research questions

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019
This article provides an overview of the main facts and analytical problems that relate to verbal periphrases. The article is structured as follows. In §1 I provide an overview of the main criteria for being a periphrasis, and the constructions that it ...
Antonio Fábregas
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Ingressive verbal periphrases in Spanish and Portuguese [PDF]

Linguistica Pragensia, 2017
The article analyses Spanish and Portuguese verbal periphrases that express the beginning of a process (ingressive manner of action). It analyses stylistically marked and stylistically unmarked ingressive constructions in order to determine ...
Dana Kratochvílová, Jaroslava Jindrová   +1 more
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On Resultative Past Participles in Spanish [PDF]

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2014
A large part of the theoretical literature on Spanish Past Participles (PPrts) has focused on the Aktionsarten restrictions that these items exhibit in absolute clauses and verbal periphrases.
Ignacio Bosque
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The Russian Counterparts of Italian Periphrases with Aspectual Value

Studi Slavistici
This contribution focuses on the realization in Russian of certain Italian aspectual periphrases – (in)cominciare/iniziare a, continuare a, cercare/tentare di using data from the Russian-Italian parallel corpus of the National Corpus of the Russian ...
Francesca Biagini, Lucyna Gebert
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