Gramaticalización por metonimización. El caso de las perífrasis verbales de gerundio y de participio

Resumen

Grammaticalization by metonymization: the case of gerundive and participle verbal periphrases

The main aim of this paper is to explore and analyze the grammaticalization of the gerundive and participle verbal constructions in Old and Classical Spanish. The author’s purpose is to demonstrate that the described grammatical change was motivated essentially by the mechanisms of metonymy.