A First-Phase Syntax Approach to Grammaticalization: Evidence from the Spanish Pseudo-Copula “Quedar(se)”
Abstract
The pseudo-copula quedar(se) <‘end up’ + adjective> in Spanish is used as a test field to understand how the pressures ensuing from the loss of non-syntactic semantic information can be the trigger for changes in a verb’s argument structure information. Using data from corpora, we explore how the grammaticalization process of the pseudo-copula unfolded to yield an aspectual copula devoid of lexical meaning. To that end, we examine the properties of the pseudo-copula in current day Spanish and put forth a First-Phase syntax approach (Ramchand 2008) to its argument structure using her notion of underassociation.
Keywords
First-Phase syntax, grammaticalization, pseudo-copula, underassociationReferences
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