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Comer, Marie and Renata Enghels. 2017. La evolución de las perífrasis verbales causativa e incoativa con “poner” en español: cambios de construcción y extensiones metafóricas. Bulletin of Hispanic studies 94 (9) : 903–924. 22 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Spanish
Place, Publisher
University of Liverpool
ISBN
14783398

Abstract

The evolution of causative and inchoative roundabout language containing the Spanish verb "poner" is dealt with in this paper. In the example "poner a alguien a trabajar", "poner" acts as an auxiliary verb with a subordinate infinitve and a causative. In the example "ponerse a trabajar", "poner" acts as an auxiliary verb with an inchoative aspectual meaning. This paper has two objectives. The first is to find how basic locative structure of "poner" turned into roundabout language. The second is to clarify to what extent those structures are grammaticalized. To do so, periphrases from the 13th through the 21st century containing "poner" have been analyzed formally and semantically. Both structures show a similar development but at dissimilar speeds. Causative periphrasis is not as grammaticalized as inchoative periphrasis. Inchoative periphrasis is found more frequently and is more syntactically incorporated.