The syntactic and semantic promenade of the Spanish absolute construction along the Communicative
Continuum
Marie Molenaers
Abstract:This paper investigates the diachronically changing syntactic and semantic status of the Spanish Absolute
Construction (AC) on the Communicative Continuum (Koch & Oesterreicher 1990 [2011])
in a corpus of 15th- to 18th-century translations from Latin. Previous research has already demonstrated that the 15th-century
preclassical Spanish AC evolved from a highly formal past participial Latin calque in the realm of Communicative Distance to an
entrenched gerundial absolute in the 18th cent… Show more
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