Cuando la gramaticalización se detiene: el caso de durante que y mediante que

López, Cristina Sánchez

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“…The rise of the preposition mediante 'with, through, by means of, via, with the help of' in Old Spanish has been explained in literature on grammatical change as a consequence of a process of grammaticalization that began in absolute constructions of the present participle (Castro Zapata 2010Zapata , 2012Sánchez Lancis 2001;Sánchez López 2014, 2016. Whereas mediante is certainly connected with absolute constructions in Latin (cf.…”

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“…Furthermore, these imperfect prepositions cannot govern infinitives, prepositional phrases, or sentences. However, at this point it should be remembered that prepositions, which express exclusively locative values, cannot govern sentences either: hacia 'towards', sobre 'on, about, upon', tras 'after, behind', bajo 'beneath', and ante 'before' do not form subordinate locative clauses (Pavón Lucero 1999, p. 571;2010;Sánchez López 2016). However, it must be remembered that already since the Middle Ages mediante can govern a relative clause (example 3) and that from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century it could appear before an infinitive (example 4).…”

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The History of the Spanish Preposition Mediante. Beyond the Theory of Grammaticalization

Camarero

2019

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The most generally accepted diachrony of mediante assumes a grammaticalization path that started in an absolute clause, which first evolved into a preposition, and later into conjunction. However, data reveals that its development is not connected to an evolution in terms of grammaticalization. Indeed, mediante was introduced in Spanish in the fourteenth century as a consequence of syntactic borrowing from Medieval Latin. More specifically, this borrowing entered Old Spanish through Aragonese and Catalan (languages spoken in the east of the Iberian Peninsula). Since its first examples, mediante has acted as a preposition, and its form, connected to present participles, would give texts a cultured and Latinising air that was well-suited to the rhetorical guidelines of the European Renaissance and pre-Renaissance. Thus, this paper shows that the writer and rhetorical rules have become a key factor in the evolution of grammar.

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The History of the Spanish Preposition Mediante. Beyond the Theory of Grammaticalization

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The Temporal Relationships between the Pluscuamperfecto andmientras+ Imperfecto

Egetenmeyer

2023

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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This paper analyzes the temporal relationship between a pluperfect verb in a main clause and a following subordinate clause introduced by mientras (‘while’) with an imperfect verb. The specific lexical and aspectual properties of the components lead to clashing expectations concerning the temporal relationship within the structure. The issues are three-fold. First, the subordinating conjunction lexically expresses the co-temporality of the subordinate clause with regard to another eventuality. Second, this may be possible when the pluperfect verb has an eventive reading, but what happens if it asserts a post-state? Third, the widely recognized discourse structural description (coming from DRT) of an imperfect verb is that its location time includes a previously introduced reference time. However, in traditional terms, the reference time involved in the meaning of a pluperfect verb is posterior to the event the pluperfect verb expresses. We address these issues and present a dataset collected from various corpora which underlines that the temporal relationships within the structure show a surprising variability. We discuss the different possibilities in depth, taking Aktionsart and subject reference into account. We also focus on the theoretical issue of the concept of reference time. On the basis of our data, and counter to the traditional approach, we argue that a temporal discourse structure should account for pluperfect verbs by means of secondary reference times.

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Cuando la gramaticalización se detiene: el caso de durante que y mediante que

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The History of the Spanish Preposition Mediante. Beyond the Theory of Grammaticalization

The History of the Spanish Preposition Mediante. Beyond the Theory of Grammaticalization

The Temporal Relationships between the Pluscuamperfecto andmientras+ Imperfecto

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