Mario Serrano-Losada

Complutense University of Madrid | UCM · Department of English Studies: Linguistics and Literature

A partir de dos estudios de caso concretos –la obsolescencia de chance y el surgimiento de turn out– el presente estudio aborda, por un lado, la creciente paradigmatización de los verbos de ascenso evidenciales y admirativos del inglés y, por otro, explora los distintos procesos cognitivos involucrados en el surgimiento y obsolescencia de los miemb...

This article explores the diachronic development of mirative end up in American English, which emerged in the late nineteenth century and which seems to be, at present, in the process of becoming a parenthetical element. The rise of the various mirative end up constructions is argued to be the result of both pragmatic enrichment and paradigmatic an...

Present-day English turn out is used in several constructions with mirative and evidential overtones. Among these, the raised subject construction and the impersonal construction stand out. The current paper provides a diachronic account of the changes that led to the emergence of these constructions. It examines the semantic and syntactic configur...

The article traces the diachronic development of the assumed evidential needless to say. This parenthetical expression allows the speaker to make certain assertions regarding the obviousness of what s/he is about to say, thus serving as an evidential strategy that marks the information conveyed as being based on inference and/or assumed or general...

This article focuses on the diachronic development of English turn out and Spanish resultar ‘turn out’ mirative constructions. Having undergone processes of semantic generalization over time, both verbs express evidential and, most prominently, mirative nuances in the present-day languages. This study explores the mechanisms that condition the evol...