Diachronic variation in the processes of grammaticalization and lexicalization of prepositional phrases in Spanish
This thesis is a proposal to rethink the characteristics that have so far defined what is known as prepositional locutions, through the analysis of a delimited inventory based on somatic nouns. The work begins with an exhaustive review of the evolution of these core nouns in Spanish dictionaries to...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Chile |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.anid.cl:10533/246371 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10533/246371 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Humanidades Lenguage y Literatura Lingüística |
| Sumario: | This thesis is a proposal to rethink the characteristics that have so far defined what is known as prepositional locutions, through the analysis of a delimited inventory based on somatic nouns. The work begins with an exhaustive review of the evolution of these core nouns in Spanish dictionaries to observe how the abstract meanings of each word are established and also how the phraseological units that include them have been lexicalized, which often indirectly give indications of the existence or origin of the prepositional phrases that we study. Specifically, the results of this thesis are summarized in two central contributions to the understanding and definition of the category of prepositional phrases. On the one hand, the guidelines that define them are broken down and, on the other, some of the criteria previously outlined as evidence of its existence as a category are questioned, in particular that of absolute syntactic fixation and stability. In view of this, we propose the idea of a fixation that is not formal but conceptual, from which everything from adverbial uses to the insertion of possessives are included and interpreted as inherent characteristics of the category. |
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