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In:Verb and Context: The impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories
Edited by Susana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 34] 2023
► pp. 203–230

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Acostumar (a/de) + inf. From the habitual aspect to the generic aspect

An approach for contemporary Catalan

 | Universitat d’Alacant
Published online: 4 January 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.34.09mon
Abstract
This study is part of a project that aims to offer a complete analysis of aspectual verbal periphrases in Catalan from the Middle Ages to the present day. Using data provided by current grammatical studies, lexicographical works and corpora, we analyse the periphrasis acostumar (a/de) + inf in contemporary Catalan as a prelude to research on its uses in early (9th–13 centuries) and late medieval (13th–15th centuries) Catalan, which present various difficulties. The purpose is to determine the current meanings of the construction. We propose that the periphrasis fundamentally expresses habituality, frequency, and generality. To analyse this periphrasis, we apply a methodology based on the semantics of cognitive orientation. Specifically, we suggest a possible path of grammaticalization marked by the process of (inter) subjectification, which is one of the regularities of semantic change described by Traugott and Dasher (2002), Traugott (2010a, 2010b, 2012), and Nuyts (2001, 2005, 2012). and 2014) and is based on invited inferences from the communicative context (Invited Inferencing Theory of Semantic Change, TCSII)
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Article outline
  • 1.Justification of the study
  • 2.Acostumar in contemporary Catalan
  • 3.Semantic structure of acostumar (a/de) + inf
  • 3.1Non-periphrastic meanings
  • 3.2Acostumar (a/de) + inf and the expression of habitualness: ‘Y té com a costum α’
  • 3.3Acostumar (a/de) + inf and the expression of frequency: ‘ Y frequently α’
  • 3.4Acostumar (a/ and the expression of generality: ‘ α characterizes Y generally’
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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