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En busca del origen de dos valores de <querer + infinitivo>
In search of the origin of the two meanings of <querer + infinitive>

Author(s): Andrzej Zieliński
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: auxiliary verb; querer ‘want’; discursive meaning; grammaticalization;

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the paper is to analyse the origin of the two meanings of the periphrastic construction <querer ‘will’ + infinitive>, founded in Spanish texts of the Middle Ages: the change of the discursive topic and the explanatory one of the ‘meaning’.

  • Issue Year: 19/2019
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 195-205
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Spanish
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