{"id":4390,"date":"2013-11-10T18:02:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T17:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2020-06-17T18:53:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:53:43","slug":"4390","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=4390","title":{"rendered":"Full circle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The form <em>cantabimus, &#8216;<\/em>we will sing&#8217; \u00a0in Classical Latin later became <em>cantare habemus<\/em>. In modern Spanish, the corresponding form is <em>cantaremos<\/em>, a contraction of <em>cantare habemus<\/em>. In a way, we are now back where we started. The synthetic form turned into an analytic form, and this again turned into a synthetic form. The development does not stop here: Spanish has, besides the synthetic form, a new paraphrastic, i.e. analytic form, \u00a0<em>vamos a cantar<\/em>. Perhaps at some stage in the future, this will again turn into a synthetic form. It seems clear, anyway, that languages do not only lose morphology over time: they also develop it. (Hollmann, Willem B.: &#8220;Grammatical Change&#8221;, in: Culpeper, Jonathan, Katamba, Francis, et. al. (eds): <em>English Language<\/em>. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009: 326-8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The form cantabimus, &#8216;we will sing&#8217; \u00a0in Classical Latin later became cantare habemus. In modern Spanish, the corresponding form is cantaremos, a contraction of cantare habemus. In a way, we are now back where we started. The synthetic form turned &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=4390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467,1082,28,372],"tags":[1630,1496,87,1631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4396,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}