Combinatorial Productivity of Spanish Verbal Periphrases as an Indicator of Their Degree of Grammaticalization

Studies on the constitution of the Spanish periphrastic system show that there is a great ease with which verbal periphrases admit different lexical items in the second verb slot as they go through their grammaticalization process. However, it has not been sufficiently explored whether the evolution...

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Main Authors: Mar Garachana, María Sol Sansiñena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-08-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/3/187