The aim of this work is a diachronic study of the inchoative periphrasis ponerse a + INF. To this end, we have used a multimodal corpus which is composed of different textual typologies from the 12th up to the 21st century. Drawing on the Diachronic Construction Grammar theoretical model, this study argues for a usage-based approach for the verbal periphrasis studies. The central part of this study has two axes: firstly, a characterisation of ponerse a + INF, and secondly, a diachronic analysis of this verbal periphrasis.
Keywords:
Verbal periphrasis, grammaticalization, Construction Grammar, historical linguistics
Cuní Díez, D. (2020). A diachronic study of ponerse a + INFINITIVO: from causativity to inchoativity. Boletín De Filología, 54(2), pp. 111–133. Retrieved from https://revistadeantropologia.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/55947
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