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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Tracing the development of spanish participation constructions : an empirical study of semantic change

Sánchez Marco, Cristina 16 November 2012 (has links)
The main aim of this thesis is to trace the development of four different constructions involving auxiliaries and participles through the history of the Spanish language. These constructions are the perfect construction expressed by haber ‘have’ + past participle (PTCP), the verbal passive expressed by ser ‘be’ + PTCP, the adjectival passive expressed by estar ‘be.LOC’ + PTCP and the stative possessive expressed by tener ‘tener.POSS’ + PTCP. Specifically, in this thesis I explore changes in the interpretations of these periphrases, based both on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of corpus data. I argue that these constructions have undergone a regularization change, and that this change was mainly motivated by the competition between these participial constructions for the same interpretations. In order to test these ideas empirically, I have compiled a large diachronic corpus of Spanish from the 12th to the 20th century, consisting of more than 39 million words and composed of texts from different sources. This corpus has been automatically lemmatised and annotated with fine-grained morphosyntactic tags. In order to do this I have adapted an existing open-source linguistic analyzer (FreeLing) to allow for the efficient linguistic annotation of the oldest texts in the corpus. / El principal objetivo de esta tesis es trazar el desarrollo de cuatro construcciones de participio, formadas por auxiliares y participios en la historia del espa˜nol. Estas construcciones son la construcci´on de perfecto, expresada por haber + participio pasado (PTCP), la pasiva verbal expresada por ser + PTCP, la pasiva adjetival expresada por estar + PTCP y la estativa posesiva expresada por tener + PTCP. Concretamente, en esta tesis exploro los cambios en las interpretaciones de estas per´ıfrasis, bas´andome en el an´alisis cualitativo y cuantitativo de datos de corpus. Defiendo que estas construcciones han sufrido un cambio de regularizaci ´on, y que la motivaci´on principal para este cambio es la competici´on entre estas construcciones de participio para expresar las mismas interpretaciones. Para probar estas ideas emp´ıricamente, he compilado un corpus diacr´onico del espa˜nol, con textos de los siglos XII al XX, que est´a formado por m´as de 39 millones de palabras y compuesto por documentos de diferentes fuentes. Este corpus ha sido lematizado y anotado con etiquetas morfosint´acticas. Para realizar esto, he utilizado una herramienta ya existente de an´alisis ling¨u´ıstico (FreeLing), que he adaptado previamente para poder anotar de manera eficiente los documentos m´as antiguos que forman este corpus.

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