Levels of Variation in Subordinates of Immediate Succession in Current Spanish
In this paper, I analyze, from a compositional perspective, the relevant features to construct the interpretation of immediate succession between a subordinate event and the event that takes place in the main sentence. Among all the components involved in the construction of the meaning of immediate...
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| description | In this paper, I analyze, from a compositional perspective, the relevant features to construct the interpretation of immediate succession between a subordinate event and the event that takes place in the main sentence. Among all the components involved in the construction of the meaning of immediate succession, I focus particularly on the subordinators, which present a mosaic of variation in current Spanish. The key ideas that can be derived from the data analysis are the following. First: subordinators of immediate succession are the <i>loci</i> of variation of temporal subordinates. Second: a subordinator of immediate succession is a “linguistic variable” that can be syntactically materialized in different forms by applying general rules that do not change the meaning, although sometimes they do change the grammatical category. Third: in the diachronic evolution of Spanish, several patterns of internal structure have emerged for immediate succession subordinators. However, most of them have ceased to be productive, although some subordinators that were coined with these patterns have survived as fossils in the current language. Fourth: the only productive pattern in the present language can be reduced to the Adv (immediacy) + <i>que</i> scheme, which goes back to Late Latin. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-53886c74951642018f8aed24f128d9672024-01-26T17:20:14ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2023-12-01911610.3390/languages9010016Levels of Variation in Subordinates of Immediate Succession in Current SpanishAvel·lina Suñer Gratacós0Departament de Filologia i Comunicació, Universitat de Girona, 17071 Girona, SpainIn this paper, I analyze, from a compositional perspective, the relevant features to construct the interpretation of immediate succession between a subordinate event and the event that takes place in the main sentence. Among all the components involved in the construction of the meaning of immediate succession, I focus particularly on the subordinators, which present a mosaic of variation in current Spanish. The key ideas that can be derived from the data analysis are the following. First: subordinators of immediate succession are the <i>loci</i> of variation of temporal subordinates. Second: a subordinator of immediate succession is a “linguistic variable” that can be syntactically materialized in different forms by applying general rules that do not change the meaning, although sometimes they do change the grammatical category. Third: in the diachronic evolution of Spanish, several patterns of internal structure have emerged for immediate succession subordinators. However, most of them have ceased to be productive, although some subordinators that were coined with these patterns have survived as fossils in the current language. Fourth: the only productive pattern in the present language can be reduced to the Adv (immediacy) + <i>que</i> scheme, which goes back to Late Latin.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/1/16immediate successionsubordinationgrammaticalizationcompositionalitysocial and geographic variationlinguistic variable |
| spellingShingle | Avel·lina Suñer Gratacós Levels of Variation in Subordinates of Immediate Succession in Current Spanish Languages immediate succession subordination grammaticalization compositionality social and geographic variation linguistic variable |
| title | Levels of Variation in Subordinates of Immediate Succession in Current Spanish |
| title_full | Levels of Variation in Subordinates of Immediate Succession in Current Spanish |
| title_fullStr | Levels of Variation in Subordinates of Immediate Succession in Current Spanish |
| title_full_unstemmed | Levels of Variation in Subordinates of Immediate Succession in Current Spanish |
| title_short | Levels of Variation in Subordinates of Immediate Succession in Current Spanish |
| title_sort | levels of variation in subordinates of immediate succession in current spanish |
| topic | immediate succession subordination grammaticalization compositionality social and geographic variation linguistic variable |
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