Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Romance motion verbs in language change: New approaches and challenges 1
4. Motion verbs in Romanian: Language contact and language renewal 23
5. Where can we go with [aller/alé ‘go’ + verb] in hexagonal French, French spoken in Gabon and Guianese French Creole? 47
6. A diachronic corpus study on the productivity of the French verb-serializing analytic [motion verb + main verb] pattern 85
7. The French aller + infinitive construction in instructive discourses: New insights from video cooking shows 107
8. “Andiamo a utilizzare il futuro analitico”: On the use of an unused form 135
9. Pragmatic profile of a marginalised verbal periphrasis: Functional insights in the use of the Italian verbal periphrasis andare a + infinito in political discourses 157
10. Semantic bleaching as an indicator of degrees of periphrasticity: An experimental approach 179
11. The category of throw verbs as productive source of the Spanish inchoative construction 213
12. (Anti-)Grammaticalization paths of Spanish venir ‘to come’ + past participle 241
13. Venir + participle in Spanish: Semantic bleaching or meaning elaboration? 269
14. Va y dice & Co.: Motion verbs as quotatives 287
15. Going to surprise: The grammaticalization of itive as mirative 311
16. Index 347