From a historical perspective, there is no doubt that "yendo" in the example cited and similar sentences originated as an adverbial. To a certain extent, there is a mismatch between the expected meaning of adverbials and "yendo" in this example in present-day Spanish, and it seems a bit funny to say that it is a "manner of being". But is this sort of mismatch sufficient to demonstrate that there has been a syntactic reanalysis? Or can the construction retain its original syntax with a special interpretation? (People working in the English grammatical tradition have typically answered that question in one way, but it seems to me that maybe the opposite answer is better.) >From: Johanna Rubba <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: go fishing >Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:34:45 -0700 > >Maybe we shouldn't get too far off of discussing English, but what's the >definition of 'adverbial' that permits the adverbial analysis of 'yendo' >in 'estamos yendo'? Does it describe the subjects' 'manner of being'? > >Thanks. >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Johanna Rubba Associate Professor, Linguistics >English Department, California Polytechnic State University >One Grand Avenue • San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 >Tel. (805)-756-2184 • Fax: (805)-756-6374 • Dept. Phone. 756-2596 >• E-mail: [log in to unmask] • Home page: >http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface >at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html >and select "Join or leave the list" > >Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/