caa a22 4500 463200144 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-006-9006-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-006-9006-z Noetzel Lisa Washington College, 300 Washington Avenue, 21620, Chestertown, MD, USA aut The Spanish Progressive Construction and its Latin Source [Elektronische Daten] [Lisa Noetzel] This article analyzes the origins of the progressive construction: estar+-ndo. Traditional accounts suggest that this verbal structure, which is found in Spanish and other Romance languages, evolved directly from the Latin Ablative gerund. Data from historical texts, however, indicate that the Latin gerundive - an adjectival form phonologically and morphologically similar to the gerund - is the correct source of the progressive construction. Using a generative framework, this article argues that the gerundive was reanalyzed as a non-finite verb. Furthermore, this syntactic reanalysis was facilitated by the identical position of subjects and predicates in constructions containing a raising verb or an auxiliary verb. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/1(2007-01-01), 51-61 0028-2677 91:1<51 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9006-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9006-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Noetzel Lisa Washington College, 300 Washington Avenue, 21620, Chestertown, MD, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/1(2007-01-01), 51-61 0028-2677 91:1<51 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer