Edited by Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego and Francesc Roca Urgell
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 34] 2021
► pp. 225–262
Chapter 8Gerund structures in Ecuadorian Spanish
In this chapter we study non-prototypical values of gerunds in Ecuadorian and Andean Spanish. Apart from the standard aspectual simultaneity reading, gerunds in Andean Spanish encode an anteriority reading that has been associated to contact with Quechua. The chapter focuses on this value and claims that there are two patterns of gerund verbal complexes that exhibit it: an embedding and a periphrastic one. We provide a syntactic analysis to account for both and we draw the connection between Ecuadorian gerunds and converbs in Quechua. Finally, we offer relevant diachronic evidence that the aspectual values of Andean gerunds are also attested in the history of Spanish, which supports our explanation in terms of contact-induced linguistic change.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Methodology
- 2.1Surveys
- 2.2Corpora analysis
- 3.Two patterns of gerunds of anteriority
- 3.1Adverbial gerunds
- 3.2Pseudo-periphrases
- 4.Towards an analysis of Ecuadorian gerunds
- 4.1Adverbial gerunds
- 4.2Pseudo-periphrases
- 5.Converbs in Quechua and their Spanish equivalents
- 5.1Morphemes of simultaneity/progressive tense
- 5.2Morphemes of adverbial subordination
- 6.Gerunds in Old Spanish and their interaction with Quechua
structures that express anteriority
- 6.1General overview of the diachronic evolution and the linguistic change
- 6.2Diachronic evolution of Spanish adverbial gerund constructions
- 7.Linguistic contact, transfer, second language acquisition, and
convergence
- Contact-induced change
- Functional convergence hypothesis
- 8.Conclusion
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.34.08bat