Desarrollo Diacrónico De La Perífrasis Imperfectiva Vasca
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: This paper aims at showing that the old imperfective periphrasis of Basque [verbal noun + locative + izan “to be”/ *edun “to have”] should be the result of a metaphorical use of a locative expression with noun verbs. When this construction was reanalysed as an aspectual periphrastic construction, an actualization process caused the realignment of the structure, extending the ergative case and the auxiliary *edun “to have” to the transitive verbs. This hypothesis seems to be confirmed by the synchronic data of the new progressive structure of Basque and by the evolution of others ergative languages (Creissels 2008). The gramaticalization of this structure as a present simple should engender the reorganization of the old present forms pushing them to more peripheral uses, like the future and the subjunctive.
Source: HAL
Author: Céline Mounole
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2282698854