His analysis of verbs considered one natural process of language evolution: grammaticalization, understood as the process by which a lexical form takes on grammatical functions in specific contexts of use ( Bybee and Pagliuca 1987 Givón 1971 Heine and Reh 1984 Hopper and Traugott 2003). Myhill ( 1989) pointed out that verbs whose meanings are aspectual, modal, or auxiliary-like favor proclisis, but verbs with more lexical meanings favor enclisis. This study not only illustrates how usage-based linguistics can capture VCP more generally, but also how this framework provides powerful tools to discover the constraints on VCP in naturalistic use in order to account for individual construction behavior.Īn interesting pattern about the behavior of particular finite verbs with respect to VCP was noted thirty years ago. Through an exemplar analysis, the construction that categorically takes enclisis and which is strongly linked to diachronically, semantically, and structurally emerges as a likely analogical model for VCP with tener que, pushing tener que towards enclisis. Data from a larger corpus indicate that the construction lacks unithood, signaling great analyzability of its component elements.
However, one construction is found exceptional in that it favors enclisis despite its grammaticalized meaning of obligation and its high frequency of use. Grammaticalized meaning and increased frequency tend to account for VCP in general. Considering the finite effect, the study focuses on usage-based accounts for the gradience attested across finite verb constructions. A variationist analysis of VCP in spoken Argentine Spanish indicates that VCP grammar is constrained by lexical (finite verb) and semantic (animacy) factors. This study provides a usage-based analysis of Spanish Variable Clitic Placement (VCP).
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