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Grammaticalization of en vías de
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Herminia Provencio Garrigós
Abstract
The aim sought with this research is to show the process of grammaticalization experienced by the prepositional locution en vías de, originated in the prepositional phrase en vía de. The study was carried out through work with diachronic and synchronic corpora which provides evidence that the history of the linguistic change occurred in en vías de has a multidimensional nature, since semantic-pragmatic, morphological, syntactic and textual factors linked by the concepts of ‘process,’ ‘progression,’ and ‘development’ interact in it. The analysis shows that four aspects impact directly on the linguistic innovation of en vías de: semantic change, which revolves around the prototypical and marginal meanings of the Latin noun vĭa; the diachronic diffusion of the prepositional locution and the contexts that it selects between the 14th and 21st centuries, which favor the routinization of prototypical collocational structures; the degree of morphological, syntactic and lexical-diatopical fixation; and finally, the texts where the prepositional locution originated and became widespread and the topics they deal with.
Abstract
The aim sought with this research is to show the process of grammaticalization experienced by the prepositional locution en vías de, originated in the prepositional phrase en vía de. The study was carried out through work with diachronic and synchronic corpora which provides evidence that the history of the linguistic change occurred in en vías de has a multidimensional nature, since semantic-pragmatic, morphological, syntactic and textual factors linked by the concepts of ‘process,’ ‘progression,’ and ‘development’ interact in it. The analysis shows that four aspects impact directly on the linguistic innovation of en vías de: semantic change, which revolves around the prototypical and marginal meanings of the Latin noun vĭa; the diachronic diffusion of the prepositional locution and the contexts that it selects between the 14th and 21st centuries, which favor the routinization of prototypical collocational structures; the degree of morphological, syntactic and lexical-diatopical fixation; and finally, the texts where the prepositional locution originated and became widespread and the topics they deal with.
Chapters in this book
- 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
Chapters in this book
- 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
