Del significado conceptual al procedimental-conceptual. El caso de la perífrasis discursiva <llegar a + infinitivo> en español
From Conceptual to Procedural-Conceptual Meaning. The Case of the Discourse Verbal Periphrasis <llegar a +infinitive> in Spanish

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to explore diachronically the verbal periphrasis whose origin, linked to the birth of the prose of Alfonso X of Castile, allowed another direction of change thus avoiding the intermediate stage of the time domain. It is subtracted, therefore, of the commonly admitted evolutionary patterns of the periphrasis of verbs of motion. Due to “cultured” origin, the acquired conceptual meaning of the verbal periphrasis mitigates into the procedural-conceptual one, similar to discourse markers. Furthermore, with the help of a relatively large corpus, which covers the major works written between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries, the author will try to perceive and discover the reasons that led to its final assessment in Spanish.

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