A composicionalidade aspetual da perífrase verbal andar a + inf
The Portuguese language possesses various means of expressing verbal aspect, among which a significant place is occupied by verbal periphrases. Due to the fact that the issue discussed is characterized by a high degree of complexity, we have decided ...
Justyna Wiśniewska
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Sobre el origen del valor frecuentativo de saber + infinitivo
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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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]
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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The ingressive verbal periphrasis in Spanish and their equivalents in Czech language [PDF]
Cyril Navrátil Abstract The ingressive verbal periphrasis in Spanish and their equivalents in Czech language This work deals the ingressive verbal periphrasis in Spanish and their equivalents in Czech language.
Navrátil, Cyril
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From conceptual to procedural-conceptual meaning : the case of the discourse verbal periphrasis < llegar a +infinitive> in Spanish [PDF]
The purpose of the paper is to explore diachronically the verbal periphrasis whose origin, linked to the birth of the prose of Alfonso X of Castile, allowed another direction of change thus avoiding the intermediate stage of the time domain.
Zieliński, Andrzej
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Perífrasis verbales: Una mirada desde los universales lingüísticos [PDF]
The main goal of this paper is to show that the different verbal periphrasis in Spanish keep a non fortuitous order, which can be derived from the one proposed by the universal hierarchy of categories (Foley and Van Valin 1984; Bybee 1985; Hengeveld 1989
Mabel Giammatteo +1 more
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Periphrases in Spanish: properties, diagnostics and research questions
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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Periphrasis and inflexion:lessons from Romance [PDF]
Evidence from the Romance languages has played a central role in linguistic debates regarding the relation between structure and change. One of the issues that has attracted most attention has been the connection between periphrasis and inflexion: Latin ...
Vincent, Nigel; id_orcid, Ledgeway, Adam
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A Note on the Present Tenses in some Southern Tanzanian Bantu Languages
In this article we discuss the shape of the present tense prefixes in a dozen Bantu languages that are spoken in a contingent area in southwestern Tanzania. All of these feature a high front vowel /i/ in at least one of their allomorphs.
Bastian Persohn, Rasmus Bernander
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Las construcciones pasivas en el español del siglo XV
The author of this article tries to demonstrate that the superiority of the passive construction with the verb "ser" and the past participle in the 15th century Spanish is due to a stylistic use of this form in a period in which a cultivated ...
Amparo Ricós Vidal
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