An Approach to Throwing Verbs as Auxiliaries of Inchoative Periphrasis: echar(se) + INF, lanzarse + INF y aventarse + INF in Mexican Spanish

• Autor: Castellanos Armenta, Julieta
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/31645
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/31645
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Perífrasis incoativas; Verbos de lanzamiento; Verbos auxiliares; Cuasisinonimia; inchoative periphrasis; Throwing verbs; Auxiliary verbs; Near-synonymy

This paper reviews the factors that determine the added semantic value of inchoative periphrasis with a throwing verb as an auxiliary. It is acknowledged that the basic semantics of the auxiliary verb is conclusive in the interpretation of the event as having an unexpected beginning, as it has traditionally been proposed for the periphrastic construction echarse a + infinitive. Based on a qualitative analysis of echar a + infinitive, echarse a + infinitive, lanzarse a + infinitive and aventarse a + infinitive, using data from Mexican written registers, it is determined that the motivations behind the specific inchoative nuance in these constructions are associated with morphosyntactic parameters, the lexical aspect of infinitives, the semantic role of the subject and sentential contexts.