Origin and development of Spanish verbal periphrases haber + (nexus) + infinitive

It is a well attested fact that possessive verbs spread to di!erent meanings. In many languages, these lexical verbs often lead to auxiliary and semiauxiliary verbs. This is the case of Lat. 'HABEO', and its Romance descendants, that gave rises to di!erent periphrastic constructions whose...

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Authors: Artigas, Esther, Garachana Camarero, Mar
Format: book part
Status:Versión aceptada para publicación
Publication Date:2022
Country:España
Institution:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repository:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/207295
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/207295
Access Level:Embargoed access
Keyword:Llengües romàniques
Infinitiu (Gramàtica)
Castellà (Llengua)
Spanish language
Romance languages
Infinitive (Grammar)
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Summary:It is a well attested fact that possessive verbs spread to di!erent meanings. In many languages, these lexical verbs often lead to auxiliary and semiauxiliary verbs. This is the case of Lat. 'HABEO', and its Romance descendants, that gave rises to di!erent periphrastic constructions whose meaning goes from a past and a future tense to a deontic modality. In this paper we re(ect on the formation in Medieval Spanish of the deontic verbal periphrases haber + (nexus) + infnitive, which added some discursive meanings related to the modality to a new grammatical form. The emergence of these verbal constructions gave rise to a major change in the medieval verbal system, whose sources can be found in Latin.