Abstract The current study analyzes distributional frequencies of the Spanish Progressive construction (ESTAR+Gerund) in a corpus of late-twentieth-century conversational speech in order to assess changes in structure and meaning. The analysis incorporates structural priming as a measure of analyzability and autonomy and utilizes both lexical and contextual measures of aspect to assess the construction’s preferred environment relative to its competing gram: the simple Present. Results of a multivariate analysis (N=1,017) indicate that over the last 100 years, the construction has lost analyzability, further coalescing into a single grammatical unit. This new unit has also acquired the ability to express limited duration (progressive, continuous) aspect with stative as well as dynamic verbs, indicating the consolidation of the construction’s aspectual import. At the same time, its presence in extended duration contexts is attributed to strong effects of Progressive-Progressive priming and, to a lesser extent, licensing by a co-occurring temporal adverbial. By situating these results within the construction’s diachrony, it is concluded that the increased grammaticalization of the Spanish Progressive in the twentieth century, as assessed quantitatively, is markedly distinct from previous centuries.

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结构自主性和方面的重要性：一种新的（西班牙语）Progressive

摘要目前的研究分析了二十世纪末期会话语音语料库中西班牙渐进式构造（ESTAR + Gerund）的分布频率，以评估其结构和含义的变化。该分析将结构启动功能作为可分析性和自治性的度量，并利用方面的词汇和上下文度量来评估结构相对于其竞争克（即简单的Present）的首选环境。多元分析（N = 1,017）的结果表明，在过去的100年中，该结构失去了可分析性，进一步合并为一个语法单位。这个新的单元还具有使用限定动词和动词来表达有限时长（渐进，连续）方面的能力，表示该结构的外观输入已合并。同时，它在持续时间较长的上下文中的存在归因于渐进式渐进启动的强烈影响，并且在较小程度上归因于同时出现的时间副词的许可。通过将这些结果置于建筑历时中，可以得出结论，定量评估的二十世纪西班牙进步派的语法化程度与以往的世纪明显不同。