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“Me vais a permitir que me ponga en plan profesor”
2020
Resumen A partir de un estudio de corpus, en este trabajo se analiza el empleo de la locución en plan (de) desde una perspectiva funcional. En términos generales, se distinguen un total de siete usos distintos, los cuales pueden agruparse en dos macrofunciones: la adverbial y la discursiva. Los usos discursivos tan solo se registran desde finales del siglo XX, y aparecen de forma más recurrente en textos orales. El estudio también muestra la variación existente entre la locución prepositiva en plan de y la adverbial en plan, la cual gana terreno en los textos más recientes. Por último, se ofrece un análisis detallado del uso de en plan (de) en el habla de los adolescentes españoles de comie…
From scribe to YouTuber: A proposal to teach the History of the English Language in the digital era
2019
The present paper deals with a proposal for enhancing students’ engagement in the course ‘History of the English Language’ of the Degree in English Studies (Universitat de València). For the purpose, the traditional lectures will be combined with a research project carried out by groups of students (research teams) in which two digital tools will be used: electronic linguistic corpora and YouTube. Electronic linguistic corpora, on the one hand, will allow students to discover the diachronic development of certain linguistic features by looking at real data and making conclusions based on frequencies by themselves. YouTube, on the other, is a most appropriate online environment where student…
Outlining a grammaticalization path for the Spanish formula en plan (de): A contribution to crosslinguistic pragmatics
2020
Abstract This article discusses the diachronic development of the Spanish multifunctional formula en plan (with its variant en plan de, literally ‘in plan (of)’ but usually equivalent to English like). The article has two main aims: firstly, to describe the changes that the formula has undergone since its earliest occurrences as a marker in the nineteenth century up to the early 21st century. The diachronic study evinces a process of grammaticalization in three steps: from noun to clause adverbial and then to discourse marker. Secondly, to conduct a contrastive analysis between en plan (de) and the English markers like and kind of/kinda so as to shed new light on the potential existence of …
Example Markers at the Intersection of Grammaticalization and Lexicalization
2020
Givon’s words “today’s morphology is yesterday’s syntax” have been widely used to describe grammaticalization, a process of linguistic change which implies an increase in the grammatical status of ...