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From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates
This volume, which can be considered as a follow-up publication to Pusch & Wesch (2003), contains ten studies on verbal periphrases in a wide array of Romance languages, both in a synchronic and in a historic perspective. Thus, this collective volume addresses the Romance verbal periphrastic system as a whole. The aim of the contributions is twofold: on the one hand, the authors intend to enrich the knowledge about the inventory of verbal periphrases of Romance languages, both in descriptive and analytical terms. On the other hand, the volume seeks to provide new insights for the study of the grammatical, pragmatic, and cognitive foundations of verbal periphrases, in order to enlarge our comprehension of their genesis, their evolution and their usage. Languages treated in the contributions include Catalan, (European) French, Friulian, (European) Portuguese, Romanian, (European) Spanish, and Catalan Sign Language (LSC).
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 31] 2022. vi, 238 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 17 November 2022
Published online on 17 November 2022
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Table of Contents
- From verbal periphrases to complex predicates: An introduction to the present volumeMar Garachana Camarero, Sandra Montserrat Buendia and Claus D. Pusch | pp. 1–11
- The coding of aspectual values in periphrastic constructions across signed languagesMaria Josep Jarque | pp. 13–40
- Come che al à vût dit: On the semantics of the formes surcomposées in FriulianLuca Melchior | pp. 41–61
- The rise of the evidential readings of the Catalan periphrasis deure + infinitiveAndreu Sentí and Bert Cornillie | pp. 63–85
- A diachronic analysis of the periphrasis soler + infinitive in Catalan: A test-case of invited inferencingSandra Montserrat | pp. 87–113
- A comparison of the early grammaticalization of vado + INF in Catalan, Spanish and French: Same point of departure – different resultsSarah Feryal Gemicioglu | pp. 115–130
- Origin and development of Spanish verbal periphrases haber + (nexus) + infinitiveEsther Artigas and Mar Garachana | pp. 131–148
- Anteriors and resultatives in Old SpanishMalte Rosemeyer | pp. 149–170
- Unexpected grammaticalizations: The reanalysis of the Spanish verb ir ‘to go’ as a past markerMar Garachana Camarero | pp. 171–188
- Degrammaticalisation indices in Iberian complex predicates?Aroldo de Andrade and Susann Fischer | pp. 189–209
- A contrastive study of the degree of grammaticalization of verbal periphrases in Catalan, Spanish and RomanianAna Fernández-Montraveta, Glòria Vázquez and Mihaela Topor | pp. 211–233
- Index | pp. 234–238
Cited by (2)
Cited by two other publications
Rabadán, Rosa
2026.
be/estar + gerund. In Multilingual Corpus Research [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 126], ► pp. 274 ff.
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