Noun-Based Constructions in the History of Portuguese and Spanish (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

Cover
Titlepage
Copyright
Contents
Series preface
Acknowledgments
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction
	1.1 Aims and motivation for this book
	1.2 Theoretical issues and broader contributions
	1.3 Corpus data and data use
	1.4 Summary of the book
2 Syntactic and semantic change in clause-taking nominal constructions
	2.1 Clause-taking nominals
		2.1.1 Nouns taking clauses
		2.1.2 Constructions
	2.2 Current approaches to semantic and syntactic change
		2.2.1 Language-internal mechanisms of syntactic change
		2.2.2 Semantic change
		2.2.3 Consequences of syntactic and semantic change
	2.3 Nouns taking finite clauses: the common analogical change
3 Clausal adjunction
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Abstract entities and their linguistic realization: events  and facts
	3.3 Present-day overview: hecho (Spanish) and feito/facto (Portuguese)
	3.4 The historical data
		3.4.1 Spanish hecho and el hecho de (que)
		3.4.2 Portuguese feito and facto
	3.5 Syntactic change: discussion
	3.6 Semantic change: discussion
	3.7 Conclusion
4 Connectives
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Spanish sin embargo (de que) and Portuguese sem embargo (de que)
		4.2.1 The historical data
		4.2.2 Interim conclusion
	4.3 Spanish so pena de (que), Portuguese sob pena de (que)
		4.3.1 The historical data
	4.4 Syntactic and semantic change
		4.4.1 Reanalysis, recategorization, and syntactic compositionality
		4.4.2 Paths of semantic change
	4.5 Conclusion
5 Light verb constructions
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 The concept of `light verb'; LVCs in diachrony
	5.3 LVCs in Spanish and Portuguese
	5.4 Synchronic overview: present-day Spanish and Portuguese
		5.4.1 Spanish consejo and Portuguese conselho
		5.4.2 Spanish dar (Det) consejo de and Portuguese dar (Det) conselho de
	5.5 Diachronic overview
		5.5.1 Spanish consejo and Portuguese conselho
		5.5.2 The LVC: Spanish dar (Det) consejo de and Portuguese dar (Det) conselho de
	5.6 Continuity and change
	5.7 Conclusion
6 Conclusion
	6.1 Chronology of the properties of the nouns and constructions
	6.2 Recategorization, compositionality, and mechanisms of change
	6.3 From theory to historical data and back again
References
Index
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