Degrammaticalisation indices in Iberian complex predicates?
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Aroldo de Andrade
Abstract
This chapter presents evidence for a loss in auxiliary status of Iberian complex predicate verbs, focusing on Catalan and European Portuguese. This change in structural status can be assessed by criteria such as: the decreasing occurrence of clitic climbing; the increasing use of subcategorised prepositions; the loss of complement fronting; and the change in the class of intervening adverbs (see Jones 1988), exemplified by means of a comparison of old and modern varieties of these languages. We argue that the motivation for this change can be found in the general word-order changes in Old Iberian languages, especially those of informational-structural marked expressions, with reflex on the creation of significant variability in the occurrence of clitic climbing. Finally we entertain the idea that, instead of interpreting this change as a true case of degrammaticalisation, it should be better considered as an epiphenomenon; in fact, some changes point out to grammaticalisation paths, inferrable either as loss of movement or as the result of selection of a smaller complement.
Abstract
This chapter presents evidence for a loss in auxiliary status of Iberian complex predicate verbs, focusing on Catalan and European Portuguese. This change in structural status can be assessed by criteria such as: the decreasing occurrence of clitic climbing; the increasing use of subcategorised prepositions; the loss of complement fronting; and the change in the class of intervening adverbs (see Jones 1988), exemplified by means of a comparison of old and modern varieties of these languages. We argue that the motivation for this change can be found in the general word-order changes in Old Iberian languages, especially those of informational-structural marked expressions, with reflex on the creation of significant variability in the occurrence of clitic climbing. Finally we entertain the idea that, instead of interpreting this change as a true case of degrammaticalisation, it should be better considered as an epiphenomenon; in fact, some changes point out to grammaticalisation paths, inferrable either as loss of movement or as the result of selection of a smaller complement.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- From verbal periphrases to complex predicates 1
- The coding of aspectual values in periphrastic constructions across signed languages 13
- Come che al à vût dit 41
- The rise of the evidential readings of the Catalan periphrasis deure + infinitive 63
- A diachronic analysis of the periphrasis soler + infinitive in Catalan 87
- A comparison of the early grammaticalization of vado + INF in Catalan, Spanish and French 115
- Origin and development of Spanish verbal periphrases haber + ( nexus ) + infinitive 131
- Anteriors and resultatives in Old Spanish 149
- Unexpected grammaticalizations 171
- Degrammaticalisation indices in Iberian complex predicates? 189
- A contrastive study of the degree of grammaticalization of verbal periphrases in Catalan, Spanish and Romanian 211
- Index 234
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- From verbal periphrases to complex predicates 1
- The coding of aspectual values in periphrastic constructions across signed languages 13
- Come che al à vût dit 41
- The rise of the evidential readings of the Catalan periphrasis deure + infinitive 63
- A diachronic analysis of the periphrasis soler + infinitive in Catalan 87
- A comparison of the early grammaticalization of vado + INF in Catalan, Spanish and French 115
- Origin and development of Spanish verbal periphrases haber + ( nexus ) + infinitive 131
- Anteriors and resultatives in Old Spanish 149
- Unexpected grammaticalizations 171
- Degrammaticalisation indices in Iberian complex predicates? 189
- A contrastive study of the degree of grammaticalization of verbal periphrases in Catalan, Spanish and Romanian 211
- Index 234
