Romance motion verbs in language change: Grammar, lexicon, discourse

Published by De Gruyter 2024

Romance motion verbs in language change

Grammar, lexicon, discourse

Edited by: Katrin Pfadenhauer and Evelyn Wiesinger

Volume 487 in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111248141

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Cross-linguistically, motion verbs are frequently involved in language change and feature a wide array of motion-related constructions. The aim of this volume is to grasp more completely the typological characteristics and the developmental potential of motion verbs and to acknowledge the formal and functional diversity of motion-related constructions in Romance languages. To this end, the contributions in this collection provide synchronic and diachronic as well as typologically oriented studies that focus on motion verbs and single- and multi-verb constructions that have received scant attention to date. These include verbal periphrases, (pseudo-/semi-)copula and pseudo-coordinated constructions in Spanish, Italian, Romanian, French and French-based Creoles. In comparison to previous research on Romance languages, the present volume also adopts a broader perspective on language change, taking into account not only grammaticalization processes but also discursive, lexical and pragmatic phenomena such as the development of discursive, quotative or mirative functions. The studies build on functional, usage-based and constructionist models of language change and rely on corpus-based as well as experimental empirical approaches.

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Katrin Pfadenhauer, Bayreuth University, Germany; Evelyn Wiesinger, Tübingen University, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Romance motion verbs in language change: New approaches and challenges Katrin Pfadenhauer and Evelyn Wiesinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Motion verbs in Romanian: Language contact and language renewal Benjamin Fagard and Alexandru Mardale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Where can we go with [aller/alé ‘go’ + verb] in hexagonal French, French spoken in Gabon and Guianese French Creole? Katrin Pfadenhauer, Alexander Teixeira Kalkhoff and Evelyn Wiesinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
A diachronic corpus study on the productivity of the French verb-serializing analytic [motion verb + main verb] pattern Alexander M. Teixeira Kalkhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
The French aller + infinitive construction in instructive discourses: New insights from video cooking shows Katrin Pfadenhauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
“Andiamo a utilizzare il futuro analitico”: On the use of an unused form Sarah Dessì Schmid and Lydia Momma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Pragmatic profile of a marginalised verbal periphrasis: Functional insights in the use of the Italian verbal periphrasis andare a + infinito in political discourses Paul Mayr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Semantic bleaching as an indicator of degrees of periphrasticity: An experimental approach Malte Rosemeyer and Mar Garachana Camarero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
The category of throw verbs as productive source of the Spanish inchoative construction Sven Van Hulle and Renata Enghels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
(Anti-)Grammaticalization paths of Spanish venir ‘to come’ + past participle Ana Bravo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Venir + participle in Spanish: Semantic bleaching or meaning elaboration? Katrin Betz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Va y dice & Co.: Motion verbs as quotatives Anke Grutschus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Going to surprise: The grammaticalization of itive as mirative Daniel Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Linguists, researchers working in Romance Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 350
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 30
- Tables: 26
Keywords: motion verb; grammaticalization; multi-verb construction; Romance languages

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Published: July 22, 2024
ISBN: 9783111248141

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Published: July 22, 2024
ISBN: 9783111247403