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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©2000.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 52. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027298706 902729870X 9781556199387 1556199384 9789027230553 9027230552 1282162934 9781282162938 |