Axel Hernández Díaz
List of John Benjamins publications in which Axel Hernández Díaz is involved.
Article
2020 From semantics to grammar: Lexical substitution in the evolution of verbal periphrases haber / tener + infinitive Changes in Meaning and Function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish, Fernández Jaén, Jorge and Herminia Provencio Garrigós (eds.), pp. 77–108 | Chapter
The main aim of this paper is to analyze the rise of the Spanish verbal periphrases tener de/que + inf and investigate the relevance of analogy and lexical semantics for these changes. We demonstrate that the constructions haber de/que + inf acted as supporting constructions motivating the rise… read more