With the goal of elucidating the diachronic trajectory of a progressive, multivariate analysis is used to track the linguistic factors conditioning variation between the Spanish Progressive and the simple Present, in 13th–15th, 17th, and 19th century texts. The Progressive begins as more of a locative construction, as shown by the early favoring effect of co-occurring locatives. The direction of this co-occurring locative effect is retained over time, but the magnitude weakens relative to aspectual constraints (limited vs. extended duration contexts, dynamic vs. stative verbs), and the Progressive is increasingly disfavored in negatives and interrogatives. Increasing frequency is accompanied by changes in linguistic conditioning. An aspectual opposition arises as, in the course of speakers’ recurrent choices between variant forms, the variants develop functional differentiation.
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2024. The imperfect progressive in Puerto Rican Spanish: a case of language contact or grammaticalization?. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2024:286 ► pp. 137 ff.
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Schmid, Sarah Dessì
2021. Zur Beziehung von progressiven Verbalperiphrasen undstates. Ein erster Bericht aus Studien zu romanischen Sprachen. Romanistisches Jahrbuch 72:1 ► pp. 31 ff.
2023. Form and function covariation: Obligation modals in Australian English. Language Variation and Change 35:3 ► pp. 351 ff.
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