Spanish time constructions with hacer
Gradient judgments and corpus data to solve a syntactic
conundrum
The present work studies the grammatical properties of Spanish time constructions
involving hacer ‘to make’ from an empirical, quantitative
perspective with insights from both competence and language use. The results
show a big difference between the properties of the so-called clausal and
adverbial constructions, something unnoticed until now. Whereas
hacer, in the former, has properties not significantly
different from other verbs, in the latter, it shows a strong erosion of its
verbal and clausal properties like TAM morphology, negation, time adjunction or
word order freedom. This contradicts earlier contributions to the topic and
argues against those formal proposals positing a synchronic derivational
relation between the two constructions.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction and interest
- 2.An overview of Spanish hacer
- 3.The grammar and semantics of temporal hacer
- 3.1Two different constructions
- 3.2Expressed time relations and semantics
- 4.A competence-based approach to the synchronic properties of the adverbial construction with hacer
- 5.A usage-based approach to the synchronic properties of hacer+time
- 5.1Methodology
- 5.2Results
- 6.The relationship between the adverbial and clausal constructions
- 7.Conclusion
- Notes
-
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