Abstract

espanolEn este articulo se analizan comparativamente las relaciones cualitativas existentes entre los patrones funcionales de las construcciones progresivas del ingles a lo largo de su desarrollo diacronico y los procesos de gramaticalizacion en que devienen estas estructuras. Para ilustrar estas relaciones, se presenta el analisis cualitativo-funcional de una serie de prototipos progresivos extraidos del conjunto de corpus York-Toronto-Helsinki-Penn, concretamente, de los generos textuales por periodo en los que se estima la existencia de estos fenomenos de cambio gramatical. Se lleva a cabo un analisis, segun el conjunto de rasgos que caracterizan estas construcciones en el ingles actual, que sugiere la presencia de tres gradientes progresivos: un gradiente estructural, uno funcional y otro de cambio gramatical. Asimismo, el estudio prueba la existencia de una relacion entre los procesos de subjetivacion que experimentan las estructuras progresivas y los fenomenos de gramaticalizacion primaria, asi como entre los fenomenos de objetivacion y los procesos de gramaticalizacion secundaria. EnglishIn this paper we examine comparatively the qualitative relations between the functional patterns of English progressive constructions in the course of their diachronic development and the grammaticalization processes undergone by these constructions. In order to illustrate these relations, we set out the qualitative-functional analysis of a number of progressive prototypes drawn from the family of corpora York-Toronto-Helsinki-Penn, specifically from the textual genres per period estimated to involve this type of grammatical change. We conduct an analysis on the basis of the host of features that characterise these constructions in present-day English which suggests the presence of three progressive gradients: a structural, a functional and a grammatical change gradient. In addition, the study demonstrates the existence of a relationship between subjectification processes experienced by progressive structures and primary grammaticalization phenomena, as well as between objectification phenomena and secondary grammaticalization processes.

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