This paper is concerned with the “invisible hand” behind the polygenetic pathways of semantic change in grammaticalization. A comparison between Old English habban + Past Participle and Spanish tener + Past Participle brings to light specific discourse strategies which speakers use resultatives for. On the basis of this analysis, the paper re-examines the problem of explaining the shift from non-temporal to temporal meaning. It is argued that this shift is brought about by some very basic discourse strategies which are strong motives for repeated meaning change in the same direction.
2024. Quantifying transitivity: Uncovering relations of gender and power. Language Variation and Change 36:2 ► pp. 123 ff.
Jardón, Natalia
2024. Galician Perfective Periphrases among Complex Predicates: Degrees of Grammaticalization and the Possibility of a Perfect Tense. Languages 9:6 ► pp. 196 ff.
2019. Diachronie du futur antérieur : une étude de corpus. Langue française N° 201:1 ► pp. 13 ff.
Carlier, Anne
2018. Le système des démonstratifs en cours de restructuration en latin tardif : une séparation des rôles référentiel et pragmatique de la deixis. Langages N° 208:4 ► pp. 29 ff.
Detges, Ulrich
2018. Te lo tengo dicho muchas veces. Resultatives between coercion, relevance and reanalysis. Open Linguistics 4:1 ► pp. 260 ff.
Silveira de Araujo, Leandro
2018. Uma revisão da história do "pretérito perfecto" no espanhol. Revista de Filología Románica 35 ► pp. 33 ff.
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