The Romance subjunctive schema
This article applies the principles of Construction Grammar (CxG) to the problem of describing the various subjunctive-constructions in the Romance languages. Departing from a very basic mother construction, all other uses are derived from it via the concept of constructionalisation (c.f. Traugott &...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:310463 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/310463 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.445 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Constructionalisation Demodalisation Insubordination Modal agreement Neo-imperatives Romance subjunctive constructions Subordination marker Construccionalització Desmodalització Insubordinació Concordança modal Neoimperatius Construccions romàniques de subjuntiu Marcador de subordinació |
| Sumario: | This article applies the principles of Construction Grammar (CxG) to the problem of describing the various subjunctive-constructions in the Romance languages. Departing from a very basic mother construction, all other uses are derived from it via the concept of constructionalisation (c.f. Traugott & Trousdale 2013). The description thus takes the form of a cognitive network that can be represented as a graphic in which all ramifications are represented in a way that allows a synoptic vision of all subjunctive schemas of a given language. These charts are then used for a comparison between various Romance languages. The most important difference appears to be the development of the Honorific-Imperative Construction in all those languages that have developed a formal address-system based on morphologically 3rd person pronouns (Vd., você, vostè); in these languages, morphological subjunctives have given rise to a whole new paradigm of "neo-imperatives". |
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