In:Changes in Meaning and Function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish
Edited by Jorge Fernández Jaén and Herminia Provencio Garrigós
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 25] 2020
► pp. 21–46
Causative and inchoative constructions with poner and meter (‘to put’) in Spanish
A diachronic constructional approach
Published online: 2 April 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.25.02eng
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.25.02eng
Abstract
This article documents the historical evolution of the
causative and inchoative constructions with the put verbs
poner and meter in Spanish. The aim of
this case study is to determine how both constructions developed out of the
more general abstract caused-motion schema. The analysis is based on a large
historical corpus, and traces their semantic and morphosyntactic
characteristics from the 13th to the 21st century. The empirical
observations are accounted for within the grammatical constructionalization
framework. By adopting a network approach we argue that four
micro-constructions emerged simultaneously, but that their
constructionalization process has been completed to a varying extent.
Individual differences are traced back to the upwards strength of the core
semantics of the nucleus verb, and the sideward impact of other members in
the network.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Materials and methods
- 3.Constructional changes and semantic evolution: Prepositional use as an indication of a metaphorical extension
- 4.Decrease in compositionality and syntactic reanalysis: On the auxiliary status of poner and meter
- 5.Productivity measurements
- 5.1Development of token frequency
- 5.2Host-class expansion: Lexical analysis of the INF slot
- 6.Discussion and conclusions
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