Abstract

MARTEL PAREDES, Víctor Arturo. EVENT PLURALITY IN PERUVIAN SPANISH: FREQUENTATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS PASARSE + GERUND, AND PARAR + GERUND. Forma funcion, Santaf, de Bogot, D.C. [online]. 2020, vol.33, n.2, pp.63-80. ISSN 0120-338X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/fyf.v33n2.79645.

The article describes the syntactic and semantic behavior of two very common verbal forms in Peruvian Spanish: parar+gerund and pasarse+gerund. It is very interesting that, despite being almost homophonous, these forms display different syntactic structures. The former is a raising verb, and the latter a control verb. However, their common frequentative value produces a plurality reading of the accompanying verbal complement: whereas parar functions as an auxiliary operator of the verb, pasar coerces or forces a plural reading because of its lexical content. On the other hand, we will show that both verbal forms are in a process of grammaticalization i.e. loss of lexical content and gain of functional features, although, in its auxiliary function, parar has advanced more in this process.

Keywords : Peruvian Spanish; frequentative; grammaticalization; raising verb; control verb; plurality.

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