PARTICIPIAL CONSTRUCTIONS: GROWTH AND EXTENSIONS

Abstract

This article, resorting to “Dynamic Theories of Language,” throws light on a Syntactic Reanalysis having transpired in participial constructions, whose central meaning is sameness of time or simultaneity inherent in the present participle verb, but some of which deviate from this core sense, resulting in asserting a temporal lapse between two expressed events. Such deviating examples are explained in developmental or extensional terms on which the above-mentioned theories rest—more specifically because of the Syntactic Reanalysis to coordination under the condition “Syntactico-Semantic Discrepancy” plus temporal non-simultaneity. This article also unveils, from a cognitive perspective, constraints on events that can be coordinated.