El verb haver-hi: evolució dels usos sintàctics

Authors

  • Joan-Rafael Ramos Alfajarín

Abstract

This study examines the syntactical evolution of the verb haver-hi through a large number of texts written in Catalan from the 13th century till now. Linguistic analysis focuses on three basic features of this verb which have not been studied much from a diachronic perspective: the grammaticalization of the locative clitic hi, the syntactical features of the post-verbal subject and the concordance between the verb and this subject. In the first case, through a quantitative approach, the process of the attachment of the clitic hi (haver

Published

2001-07-26

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