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LanguagesIn research on verbal periphrases, analyzability constitutes a central parameter, both for describing the grammaticalization processes to which these constructions are subject and for defining their categorical status.
Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen
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Catalan Journal of LinguisticsThe main objective of this article is to reassess the pivotal role of semantic change within the framework of grammaticalisation and its intricate relationship with both textual and sentence syntax.
Mar Garachana
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Perífrases verbais con valor deóntico no discurso paremiolóxico: unha perspectiva diacrónica / Verbal periphrasis with a deontic meaning in paroemiologic discourse: a diachronic overview [PDF]
Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega, 2015 O obxectivo do traballo é afondar no estudo diacrónico das perífrases verbais máis comúns do castelán con valor deóntico (haber de + infinitivo, haber que + infinitivo, tener que + infinitivo, deber [de] + infinitivo e poder + infinitivo), empregando ...
Patricia Fernández Martín
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BIBLICAL METAPHORS IN LETTERS OF LEV OF OPTINA [PDF]
Проблемы исторической поэтики, 2014 This article presents the first analysis of tropes in the letters of the first Elder Lev (Nagolkin) of Optina Pustyn Monastery (Opta’s hermitage) – i. e. proverbs, allusions, allegories periphrasis and metaphors.
Svetlana Olegovna Zakharchenko
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Transitivity, Ecology, and the Emergence of Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek [PDF]
Classical Philology, 2013 In this article, I discuss the emergence of verbal periphrasis with eἰμί “I am” and ἔχω “I have” and a perfect, present or aorist participle in Archaic and Classical Greek. Adopting a so-called ‘ecological’ perspective, I argue for the importance of looking at the interrelationship between the periphrastic constructions in terms of their origins and ...
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To be or not to be an auxiliary verb. The case of Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019 This paper studies two Spanish constructions with the verb poner (‘to put’) and an infinitive. The first one, , has traditionally been considered an inchoative periphrasis; however, we will show that its grammaticalisation is only complete with ...
Margot Vivanco
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Sobre el origen del valor frecuentativo de saber + infinitivo
Studia Iberystyczne, 2017 On the Origin of the Frequentative Meaning of The main purpose of this paper is to offer a new proposal about the origin of the frequentative meaning of the verbal periphrasis , different from Vázquez’s (1980) hypothesis of a loan-translation from ...
Andrzej Zieliński
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La perífrasi verbal conativa [ser + a + infinitiu]: descripció i gènesi [PDF]
Sintagma, 2011 In Catalan the verbal periphrasis [ser `to be' + a `to' + infinitive] expresses the conative sense (also called futured past). Catalan grammars do not report this construction, probably because it is unusual. In fact, this verbal periphrasis is defective:
Xavier Rull
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The refuge of a dying variant within the grammar: Patterns of change and continuity in the Spanish verbal periphrasishaber de + infinitive over the past two centuries [PDF]
Language Variation and Change, 2015 AbstractBased on a corpus of ego-documents (private letters, diaries, memoirs) from the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, this paper presents a variationist comparative study to determine the fate of the modal periphrasishaber de + infinitive in the history of modern Spanish.
Blas-Arroyo, José Luis +1 more
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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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