PASARSE + GERUND AS A PSEUDOCOPULATIVE VERB. A SYNCHRONIC ANALYSIS WITH DATA FROM LIMA, PERU

Paredes V.A.M. · Nueva Revista de Filologia Hispanica (2023) · DOI: 10.24201/nrfh.v71i2.3869

Resumen

In this paper I present an analysis of the frequentative verbal periphrasis pasarse + gerund. I offer a description and analysis of the pronominal clitic in pasarse, characterized as middle voice; I discuss the obligatory nature of a depictive gerund, due to the desemantization of pasarse and its significance as an aspectual pseudo-copulative that connects the subject with a stage-level predicate; and I examine the selection of a complement of time, corresponding to a complement, not of event, but of aspect. I conclude that these characteristics point to a void of lexical content and predominance of functional features of aspect.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos