Stages of grammaticalization of causative verbs and constructions in Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian
-
Augusto Soares Da Silva
The article shows that analytic causative constructions are more grammaticalized in French and Italian than in Spanish and Portuguese, both in meaning (semantic bleaching of the verb ‘to make’) and in synthesis (structural event integration). It is pointed out, moreover, that Italian fare + infinitive is semantically and structurally more grammaticalized than French faire + infinitive, and that the emergence of the inflected infinitive in the clausal complements of causative and perception verbs in Portuguese has made the Portuguese causative constructions less integrated, and thus less grammaticalized, than the Spanish ones. The conclusion of this study is that there exists a decreasing continuum of grammaticalization of causative constructions in Romance languages, that starts with Italian and goes on to French, Spanish and Portuguese, in that order.
© 2012 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Introduction: The pace of grammaticalization in a typological perspective
- The pace of grammaticalization and the evolution of prepositional systems: Data from Romance
- Grammaticalisation and the internal logic of the indefinite article
- Grammaticalization and innovation in the encoding of motion events
- Word order in French, Spanish and Italian:A grammaticalization account
- Degrees of grammaticalization in three Romance languages: A comparative analysis of existential constructions
- The evolution of negation in French and Italian: Similarities and differences
- Gradualness and pace in grammaticalization: The case of adversative connectives
- Stages of grammaticalization of causative verbs and constructions in Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian
- A comparative study of word order in Old Romance
- Possessives and grammaticalization in Romance
- Acknowledgements
- Conference report
- Index to volume 46
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Introduction: The pace of grammaticalization in a typological perspective
- The pace of grammaticalization and the evolution of prepositional systems: Data from Romance
- Grammaticalisation and the internal logic of the indefinite article
- Grammaticalization and innovation in the encoding of motion events
- Word order in French, Spanish and Italian:A grammaticalization account
- Degrees of grammaticalization in three Romance languages: A comparative analysis of existential constructions
- The evolution of negation in French and Italian: Similarities and differences
- Gradualness and pace in grammaticalization: The case of adversative connectives
- Stages of grammaticalization of causative verbs and constructions in Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian
- A comparative study of word order in Old Romance
- Possessives and grammaticalization in Romance
- Acknowledgements
- Conference report
- Index to volume 46
