Blas Arroyo, J. L. (José Luis)
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- Patrones de variación y cambio en la sintaxis del Siglo de Oro: un estudio variacionista de dos perífrasis modales en textos de inmediatez comunicativa(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2016) Porcar Miralles, M. (Margarita); Blas Arroyo, J. L. (José Luis)Using the hermeneutic tools of variationism in a corpus of a million and a half words, taken from texts approaching the pole of ‘language immediacy’ (private letters, diaries, etc.), this article analyzes the evolution of constraint factor conditioning the variability between deber & deber de + infi nitive periphrasis in the XVI and XVII centuries. The empirical research shows that deber has a prominent role in Golden Age Spanish, as well as in other moments in its history. However, unlike what has been observed in other periods, deber de has an important vitality in this period, with uses increasing signifi cantly from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards. This vitality is further strengthened in some linguistic contexts, either in isolation (epistemic contexts, modalized utterances –especially, emphasized ones–, negative sentences) or in interaction among them. Furthermore, the fact that these linguistic contexts are much more occasional in discourse than their opposing ones (deontic contexts, non modalized utterances, affi rmative sentences), could explain the secular disadvantage of this periphrasis versus its rival variant.