Gramaticalização do verbo danar como marcador aspectual: um legado latino

Abstract

Based on the theoretical assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics and of Construction Grammar, this paper proposes to discuss the hypothesis that the aspectual construction formed by V1danar + (prep) + V2infinitive has Latin roots because similar syntactic constructions had been already identified in the first century of the Christian Era. The results achieved had shown that the aspectual construction emerged in the twentieth century, but it is the result of a merging process of the two Latin constructions that preceded it historically, which inherited syntactic and semantic features.