(Anti-)Grammaticalization paths of Spanish venir ‘to come’ + past participle
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Ana Bravo
Abstract
Spanish venir ‘to come’ + past participle (pp) has different meanings as outcomes, namely arrangement (viene envuelto lit. ‘comes wrapped’) and causation (viene causado lit. ‘comes caused’). Furthermore, and contrary to Italian venire + pp and, to a lesser extent, Romanian veni + pp, it lacks the passive auxiliary function. In this article we explain these two meanings in compositional terms and show that only the latter can be properly considered a new grammaticalization path, in that the former venir is a lexical verb and as such allows the very same range of meanings and combinations in Medieval Spanish that it allows today. In addition, we argue that venir + pp might be analyzed as an impersonal construction. Finally, our findings support previous research on the grammaticalization of COME as a passive auxiliary, according to which it develops out of an intermediate COME with a change of state meaning. In Spanish this in-between state occurred, but only in an extremely restricted way and it didn’t go beyond the 13th century.
Abstract
Spanish venir ‘to come’ + past participle (pp) has different meanings as outcomes, namely arrangement (viene envuelto lit. ‘comes wrapped’) and causation (viene causado lit. ‘comes caused’). Furthermore, and contrary to Italian venire + pp and, to a lesser extent, Romanian veni + pp, it lacks the passive auxiliary function. In this article we explain these two meanings in compositional terms and show that only the latter can be properly considered a new grammaticalization path, in that the former venir is a lexical verb and as such allows the very same range of meanings and combinations in Medieval Spanish that it allows today. In addition, we argue that venir + pp might be analyzed as an impersonal construction. Finally, our findings support previous research on the grammaticalization of COME as a passive auxiliary, according to which it develops out of an intermediate COME with a change of state meaning. In Spanish this in-between state occurred, but only in an extremely restricted way and it didn’t go beyond the 13th century.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Romance motion verbs in language change: New approaches and challenges 1
- Motion verbs in Romanian: Language contact and language renewal 23
- Where can we go with [aller/alé ‘go’ + verb] in hexagonal French, French spoken in Gabon and Guianese French Creole? 47
- A diachronic corpus study on the productivity of the French verb-serializing analytic [motion verb + main verb] pattern 85
- The French aller + infinitive construction in instructive discourses: New insights from video cooking shows 107
- “Andiamo a utilizzare il futuro analitico”: On the use of an unused form 135
- Pragmatic profile of a marginalised verbal periphrasis: Functional insights in the use of the Italian verbal periphrasis andare a + infinito in political discourses 157
- Semantic bleaching as an indicator of degrees of periphrasticity: An experimental approach 179
- The category of throw verbs as productive source of the Spanish inchoative construction 213
- (Anti-)Grammaticalization paths of Spanish venir ‘to come’ + past participle 241
- Venir + participle in Spanish: Semantic bleaching or meaning elaboration? 269
- Va y dice & Co.: Motion verbs as quotatives 287
- Going to surprise: The grammaticalization of itive as mirative 311
- Index 347
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Romance motion verbs in language change: New approaches and challenges 1
- Motion verbs in Romanian: Language contact and language renewal 23
- Where can we go with [aller/alé ‘go’ + verb] in hexagonal French, French spoken in Gabon and Guianese French Creole? 47
- A diachronic corpus study on the productivity of the French verb-serializing analytic [motion verb + main verb] pattern 85
- The French aller + infinitive construction in instructive discourses: New insights from video cooking shows 107
- “Andiamo a utilizzare il futuro analitico”: On the use of an unused form 135
- Pragmatic profile of a marginalised verbal periphrasis: Functional insights in the use of the Italian verbal periphrasis andare a + infinito in political discourses 157
- Semantic bleaching as an indicator of degrees of periphrasticity: An experimental approach 179
- The category of throw verbs as productive source of the Spanish inchoative construction 213
- (Anti-)Grammaticalization paths of Spanish venir ‘to come’ + past participle 241
- Venir + participle in Spanish: Semantic bleaching or meaning elaboration? 269
- Va y dice & Co.: Motion verbs as quotatives 287
- Going to surprise: The grammaticalization of itive as mirative 311
- Index 347
