Structural autonomy and aspectual import: A new(er) Spanish Progressive.
The current study analyzes distributional frequencies of the Spanish Progressive construction ( ESTAR+Gerund) in a corpus of late-twentieth-century conversational speech in order to assess changes in structure and meaning. The analysis incorporates structural priming as a measure of analyzability an...
| Publicado en: | Probus: International Journal of Latin & Romance Linguistics Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 205 - 233 |
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De Gruyter
Aug2017
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