With the goal of elucidating the diachronic trajectory of a progressive, multivariate analysis is used to track the linguistic factors conditioning variation between the Spanish Progressive and the simple Present, in 13th–15th, 17th, and 19th century texts. The Progressive begins as more of a locative construction, as shown by the early favoring effect of co-occurring locatives. The direction of this co-occurring locative effect is retained over time, but the magnitude weakens relative to aspectual constraints (limited vs. extended duration contexts, dynamic vs. stative verbs), and the Progressive is increasingly disfavored in negatives and interrogatives. Increasing frequency is accompanied by changes in linguistic conditioning. An aspectual opposition arises as, in the course of speakers’ recurrent choices between variant forms, the variants develop functional differentiation.
2024. Progressive aspect across temporalities: variation between synthetic and analytic forms in L1 and L2 Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 17:2 ► pp. 161 ff.
Delgado-Díaz, Gibran J.
2024. The imperfect progressive in Puerto Rican Spanish: a case of language contact or grammaticalization?. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2024:286 ► pp. 137 ff.
2021. Zur Beziehung von progressiven Verbalperiphrasen undstates. Ein erster Bericht aus Studien zu romanischen Sprachen. Romanistisches Jahrbuch 72:1 ► pp. 31 ff.
Fuchs, Martín, Ashwini Deo & Maria Mercedes Piñango
2018. On the trail of grammaticalization in progress: hasel quebecome a compound relative pronoun in the history of Spanish prepositional relative clauses?. Probus 30:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
2015. The Historical Development of the Progressive Aspect in Central Zapotec. International Journal of American Linguistics 81:2 ► pp. 151 ff.
D’Arcy, Alexandra
2015. Quotation and Advances in Understanding Syntactic Systems. Annual Review of Linguistics 1:1 ► pp. 43 ff.
Poplack, Shana & Rena Torres Cacoullos
2015. Linguistic Emergence on the Ground. In The Handbook of Language Emergence, ► pp. 265 ff.
Gagliardi, Annie, Michael Goncalves, Maria Polinsky & Nina Radkevich
2014. The biabsolutive construction in Lak and Tsez. Lingua 150 ► pp. 137 ff.
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