Repetitive pseudo-coordination: the case of caminan y caminan
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This paper analyses verbs that are apparently coordinated, such as Caminó y caminó, which in Spanish grammar have been considered as instances of lexical reduplication (Escandell Vidal, 1991; Roca & Suñer, 2000; but cf. Feliú, 2011). We argue that they could rather be considered as instances of pseudo-coordination (cf. De Vos, 2005 for English) and we also call into question some of the claims found in the relevant literature. In particular, this article rejects the claim that pseudo-coordinative structures always have a durative aspectual reading with atelic verbs and an iterative reading with telic verbs. Hence, contrary to what Escandell Vidal (1991) and Roca & Suñer (2000) suggest, this study also rejects the claim that pseudo-coordinative structures are systematically equivalent to the quantifier mucho. With this discussion we expect to make a valuable contribution to the descriptive and theoretical grammar of Spanish.Downloads
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