Abstract

MARTEL PAREDES, Víctor Arturo. Aspects of the grammar of the gerund of posteriority of Spanish. Letras [online]. 2020, vol.91, n.134, pp.164-182. ISSN 0378-4878.  http://dx.doi.org/10.30920/letras.91.134.8.

My purpose is to describe the grammar that underlies the construction of the so-called gerund of posteriority. I will show that, in opposition to Paris (2003), constructions with non-periphrastic gerunds with a sense of inference sense of consecution (or posterioriry) require a semantic link between the event of the finite verb and the one that the gerund expresses from individuals (such as subject, objects, including propositions) and their states (restrictions of aspect). My proposal is to describe the semantic and aspectual restrictions that allow to interpret the building construction of the gerund of posteriority. In turn, this article is a response to the censorship to which the gerund of posteriority is subject in the sake of using the use of prestigious and traditional forms, which, through the centuries, grammarians have unsuccessfully tried to impose on speech and writing, based on grammaticality notions of grammaticality that do not represent the grammar of speakers.

Keywords : Gerund of posteriority; Grammar; Semantics.

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