Changing frequencies in a constructional landscape
The case of two epistemic constructions in Spanish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344869 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen (0000-0003-4009-8092, Utrecht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 210-237 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diachronica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0176-4225 • E-ISSN: 1569-9714 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/dia.17021.nie |
| OpenAlex | W2883691280 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
Many studies on Spanish verbal periphrases either discuss the general features of the syntactic category or analyse the semantic and functional differences between specific members of that category. The present paper focusses on one particular periphrasis, parecer “to seem” + infinitive but, at the same time, takes into account a similar, impersonal construction with parecer . Adopting a constructionist, usage-based approach, data are drawn from a large diachronic corpus, which makes it possible to describe the interplay between the two competing constructions and identify different semantic and syntactic contexts that favoured the increase of the periphrasis in the 19th century at the cost of the impersonal construction. More generally, the paper addresses the relevance of studying individual constructions in the context of other semantically and/or formally related constructions, since a change in one particular area of the constructional landscape can have repercussions on other areas as well
Archaeology · Infinitive · Linguistics · Political science · Verb · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
La gramática en la diacronía
Productivity
The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar
Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization
Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
Grammaticalization
Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization
Constructions of uncontrolled state or event
Seem and evidentiality
Evidentiality. Dutch seem and appear verbs
Essays on Spanish
Subjectivity and certainty in epistemic modality
Language Change
Estudios sobre perifrasis verbales del espanol
Extending collostructional analysis
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |