Abstract
Abstract
The Spanish benefactive verbal periphrasis dar ‘give’ + gerund is unique to the Spanish spoken in
Ecuador and it seems to have emerged in the historical Ecuadorian context of multilingualism. The analysis presented sheds light
to the intricacies of the construction, taking into consideration the inherent aspect of the gerundial verb. Oral data was
collected during two months of participant observation in Ecuador. The aspectual theoretical analysis of Verkuyl (1993), González (2003) and González and Verkuyl (2017) is applied to the data in order to determine the inherent aspectual
value of the gerundial verb in the predications. The results show that there is an overwhelming use of terminative predications.
Additionally, some predications that prima facie seem durative can be interpreted as terminative. This finding can be partially
explained by particular linguistic phenomena only appearing in the Spanish in contact with Kichwa. Moreover, this study adds
empirical proof of how relevant discourse is in aspectual representations.
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