Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics - Grammaticalization of a Catalan Motion Verb Construction - Katalin Nagy C.
Object-scientific Part of the Study: Initial Stage of Grammaticalization of the Catalan “anar + infinitive” Construction
Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics - Grammaticalization of a Catalan Motion Verb Construction - Katalin Nagy C.
Katalin Nagy C. [+]
MTA-DE-SZTE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics, University of Szeged, Hungary
Description
After an introduction to semantic changes of motion verb constructions in the languages of the world, the two first sections of the object-scientific part present the use of the construction “anar ‘go’ + Inf” and “ir ‘go’ (a) + Inf” in medieval and current Catalan and Spanish, respectively. Section 2.3 offers a summary of previous literature on the topic, discussing and criticizing the main hypotheses, which raises the necessity of a new approach. After presenting the theoretical background in section 2.4, section 2.5 provides a morphological analysis of the occurrences found in the historical corpus. Section 2.6 deals with entrenched local schemas discovered in the use of the motion verb constructions under study and offers a comparison of their use with uses of functionally similar constructions in the same language state. Section 2.7 summarizes the object-scientific results of the research.