Project

From three-place predicates to auxiliary verbs in Romance languages: on the cross-linguistic equivalence of putting verbs in Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Code
01D36114
Duration
01 October 2014 → 01 October 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
Keywords
verbs of putting synchronic and diachronic corpus research
 
Project description

This project aims at a comparative analysis of verbs of putting in three Romance languages: Spanish, Portuguese and French. Three near-synonymous verb pairs will be studied: poner/meter (Sp.), pôr/meter (Pt.) and poser/mettre (Fr.) from a synchronic and a diachronic angle. The intra- and cross-linguistic differences in use and the grammaticalization paths of the verbs constitute the focus of this study.