The Evolutions of The Old Spanish Adverbs ende and Ý
The main aim of this paper is to provide a syntactic account, within the framework of grammaticalization, of the loss of the two space locative pronominal adverbs ende and 'y in Old Spanish. Firstly, we present the evolution of Old Spanish space deictic adverbs, to which ende and ý belong, in o...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2001 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:2228 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/2228 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Diachrony Syntax Grammaticalization Deixis Locative adverbs Diacronia Sintaxi Gramaticalització Deixi Adverbis locatius |
| Sumario: | The main aim of this paper is to provide a syntactic account, within the framework of grammaticalization, of the loss of the two space locative pronominal adverbs ende and 'y in Old Spanish. Firstly, we present the evolution of Old Spanish space deictic adverbs, to which ende and ý belong, in order to study the changes undergone during this historic period. Secondly, we analyse the syntactic behaviour of these deictic adverbs in an Old Spanish corpus, where one can observe that there is little difference among the adverbs of the same group, and that there is a progressive grammaticalization of ende and 'y, that ended up being distinct from the rest of deictic adverbs. Finally, we analyse the reasons for the loss of ende and 'y from a phonetic and lexical, as well as syntactic, point of view, so as to show the most used grammatical meanings of these adverbs and the conditions which help their appearance. |
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