Open AccessOn pseudo-coordination in Spanish
Author(s) -
Ana Bravo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
borealis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1893-3211
DOI - 10.7557/1.9.1.5365
Subject(s) - adverb , linguistics , schema (genetic algorithms) , meaning (existential) , class (philosophy) , variation (astronomy) , grammaticalization , relation (database) , object (grammar) , subject (documents) , psychology , computer science , philosophy , verb , artificial intelligence , physics , database , machine learning , library science , astrophysics , psychotherapist
. Pseudo-coordination, that is, sequences of a least two verbs of the form raise a number of problems that stem from the fact that they share properties with a wide range of different syntactic phenomena. As regards Sp. schema, in this paper I address the discussion of whether it qualifies as a verbal periphrasis or not. A number of arguments are provided that show that the relation between V1 and V2 is not that of auxiliarization. Likewise, it is argued that its meaning is not aspectual. Instead, a stance is taken in favour of the analysis that argue that it is discourse related. In addition to this, it is shown that Sp. pseudo-coordinatives are subject to a high variation. Namely, V1 verbs may be divided into two big classes: go-class verbs, highly grammaticalized and, take-class verbs, less grammaticalized and with an agentive meaning. In addition to this, va y lit. goes and functions as an adverb, similarly to puede que lit. can that, ‘maybe’.