24.1490, Diss: Translation/Romanian/Spanish: Topor: 'Verbal Periphrases in Spanish and Romanian...'

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Subject: 24.1490, Diss: Translation/Romanian/Spanish: Topor: 'Verbal Periphrases in Spanish and Romanian...'

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Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:46:35
From: Mihaela Topor [topormihaela at gmail.com]
Subject: Verbal Periphrases in Spanish and Romanian. A contrastive study

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Institution: Universidad de Lleida 
Program: Teoria del text i el seu context 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2011 

Author: Mihaela Topor

Dissertation Title: Verbal Periphrases in Spanish and Romanian. A contrastive
study 

Dissertation URL:  http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/31989

Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Subject Language(s): Romanian (ron)
                     Spanish (spa)


Dissertation Director(s):
Ana Fernández Montraveta
Gloria Vázquez García

Dissertation Abstract:

The aim of this doctoral dissertation is to carry out a contrastive study of the 
verbal periphrases (VP) of Spanish and Romanian, regarding the degree of 
grammaticalization, on the one hand, and the types of use restrictions, on the 
other. As regards the first aspect, it has been shown that the VP of Spanish have 
a higher degree of grammaticalization than Romanian PV. With respect to the 
second, we highlight that Romanian has more restrictions on the semantic type 
of the verb that can be combined or as to the mode and tense in which the 
auxiliary verb is conjugated.


First, we focus on the review of the concept of PV, the terminology and the 
formal and semantic properties of these biverbal constructions. We then proceed 
to the evaluation of the criteria typically used to identify a PV. We conclude with 
the validation of ten of the fifteen evaluated criteria. To this end, we argue that the 
validity of a criterion is not determined solely by the fact that it can not be 
successfully applied in a non-periphrastic construction, but also by the ability to 
reveal in the verbal complex one or more grammaticalization related properties.


Since the main semantics division is between aspectual and modal auxiliaries, in 
Chapters 3 and 4 we review the major classifications that have been made in the 
field of these semantic categories in order to establish our own aspectual and 
modal classification.


In Chapter 5 we describe in detail 44 constructions considered as periphrastic in 
Spanish based on previously validated criteria. The description contains the 
temporal and actional constraints and the capacity of the auxiliary to appear 
alongside other PV (recursion). Finally, we present the translation into Romanian.


In Chapter 6, prior to the conclusions, we analyze 24 of the Romanian VP, most 
of them equivalent to Spanish VP. We follow the same procedure as in the case 
of the Spanish PV, using the same criteria and highlighting all kinds of 
restrictions.


The work is accompanied by five appendices. The first contains the description 
of the lexicographic tool that enables the development of a dictionary of Spanish-
Romanian VP, presented separately in electronic format. The second and the 
third appendix contain the compilations of VP in both languages, constructed 
from VP studies of a number of authors. Finally, appendices A and B, also 
presented in electronic form, contain the examples of corpora related to each of 
the Spanish and Romanian VP, respectively.






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