The present investigation analyzes the use of a construction traditionally described as impersonal: periphrasis haber que + infinitive. This is variable phenomenon in Spanish grammar studied meaningful choice based on cognitive conceptualization salience. conveys meaning duty, obligation, recommendation or convenience by which speaker accepts situation unavoidable. Its analyzed texts Corpus Int...

0. Preliminaries Evidentiality is a modal category that qualifies propositions in terms of the speaker's source of information (e.g., reported, inferential, hearsay). Compare epistemic modals, which mark the speaker's judgment of the factual status of the proposition, rather than the source of this knowledge. Evidentials are typically marked with verbal affixes, clitics, or particles. Languages...

I specify a typology for the extreme of inflectional morphology, namely suppletion (as in go went). This is an unusual enterprise within typology, and it requires a ‘canonical’ approach. That is, I define the canonical or best instance, through a set of converging criteria, and use this point in theoretical space to locate the various occurring types. Thus the criteria establish the dimensions ...

But what if some input has no output? What candidate is the winner of the competition? In phonology, this problem arises primarily and perhaps exclusively in paradigmatic gaps. In a paradigmatic gap, some combination of morphemes in the input is ruled absolutely ungrammatical for apparently phonological reasons, leaving a hole in the paradigm that is filled by periphrasis, suppletion, or allomo...

The main aim of this paper is to describe the Spanish construction parar de + inf, an aspectual verbal periphrasis which expresses interruption event referred by infinitive in affirmative clauses, and continuity repetition negative clauses. Parar de+ inf a whose consolidation occurred twentieth twenty-first centuries. study on structure therefore associated with recent linguistic changes. chara...

The romance future and conditional tenses are the result of grammaticalization Latin periphrasis, mainly cantāre habeō. In some medieval Romance languages, including Catalan, two types forms existed: synthetic (faré ‘I will do’) analytical (fer-lo he do it’). Analytical not present univerbation thus less grammaticalized than forms. work aims to study distribution diachronically. A diachronic co...

Abstract While ancient metalinguistic resources such as lexica and scholia are increasingly studied in the field of scholarship (Montanari 2020), they investigated less within historical sociolinguistics Ancient Greek. Analysing Atticist by Phrynichus, Moeris Aelius Dionysius, this article illustrates historically persistent connection between social perception diachronic change Although releva...

The article clarifies the semantic-syntactic, functional-stylistic, cognitive-onomasiological, linguistic-cultural and communicative-pragmatic features of paraphrases in literary journalism V. Yavorivskyi latest period creativity. source research is four collections journalistic works by Yavorvskyi «What kind people are we?..». It has been proven that writer primarily chooses his own names as s...