From semantics to grammar
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Mar Garachana Camarero
Abstract
The main aim of this paper is to analyze the rise of the Spanish verbal periphrases tener de/que + inf and investigate the relevance of analogy and lexical semantics for these changes. We demonstrate that the constructions haber de/que + inf acted as supporting constructions motivating the rise of the synonymous pair tener de/que + inf (De Smet & Fischer 2017). The analogical process between the two constructions was due to the synonymy between the lexical verbs haber and tener expressing possessive meanings.
Abstract
The main aim of this paper is to analyze the rise of the Spanish verbal periphrases tener de/que + inf and investigate the relevance of analogy and lexical semantics for these changes. We demonstrate that the constructions haber de/que + inf acted as supporting constructions motivating the rise of the synonymous pair tener de/que + inf (De Smet & Fischer 2017). The analogical process between the two constructions was due to the synonymy between the lexical verbs haber and tener expressing possessive meanings.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Nouns and labelling 1
- Causative and inchoative constructions with poner and meter (‘to put’) in Spanish 21
- Auditory verbs in the Spanish language 47
- From semantics to grammar 77
- A note on the relative diachronic productivity of metaphor and metonymy 109
- A cognitive approach to the grammaticalization of the epistemic marker fijo 117
- The future tense in Spanish 159
- Form and meaning in the development of verbal polysemy 173
- Something seems to have changed 195
- In substance , they came from above 221
- Grammaticalization of en vías de 237
- On the importance of a diachronic approach to phraseology 299
- Index 331
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Nouns and labelling 1
- Causative and inchoative constructions with poner and meter (‘to put’) in Spanish 21
- Auditory verbs in the Spanish language 47
- From semantics to grammar 77
- A note on the relative diachronic productivity of metaphor and metonymy 109
- A cognitive approach to the grammaticalization of the epistemic marker fijo 117
- The future tense in Spanish 159
- Form and meaning in the development of verbal polysemy 173
- Something seems to have changed 195
- In substance , they came from above 221
- Grammaticalization of en vías de 237
- On the importance of a diachronic approach to phraseology 299
- Index 331
