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Changes in meaning and function : studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish /

"Diachronic linguistics has been experiencing a strong revival during the last few decades, since an increasing number of researchers have assumed that evolutionary and historical factors must be considered to properly understand how natural languages work. This book offers new data and insight...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Fernández Jaén, Jorge (Editor), Provencio Garrigós, Herminia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadephia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Series:IVITRA research in linguistics and literature ; v.25.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Jorge Fernández Jaén and Herminia Provencio Garrigós
  • Nouns and labelling: The advance of nominalization in Spanish / Javier Elvira
  • Causative and inchoative constructions with poner and meter ('to put') in Spanish: A diachronic constructional approach/ Renata Enghels and Marie Comer
  • Auditory verbs in the Spanish language: A historical and cognitive approach / Jorge Fernández Jaén
  • From semantics to grammar: Lexical substitution in the evolution of verbal periphrases haber/tener + infinitive / Mar Garachana Camarero and Axel Hernández Díaz
  • A note on the relative diachronic productivity of metaphor and metonymy / Dirk Geeraerts and Lisbeth De Laet
  • A cognitive approach to the grammaticalization of the epistemic marker fijo / Ruth M. Lavale-Ortiz
  • The future tense in Spanish: An enactive approach / Ángel López García
  • Form and meaning in the development of verbal polysemy / Chantal Melis
  • Something seems to have changed: Diachronic evidence for the semantic shift of parecer + infinitive / Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen
  • In substance, they came from above: On the acquisition of discourse particles in Medieval Spanish / Lola Pons Rodríguez
  • Gramaticalization of en vías de: A multidimensional linguistic change / Herminia Provencio Garrigós
  • On the importance of a diachronic approach to phraseology / Elena Sánchez López
  • Index.