Un estudio diacrónico de ponerse a + INFINITIVO: de la causatividad a la incoatividad.

The aim of this work is a diachronic study of the inchoative periphrasis ponerse a + inf. To this end, we have used a multimodal corpus which is composed of different textual typologies from the 12th up to the 21st century. Drawing on the Diachronic Construction Grammar theoretical model, this study argues for a usage-based approach for the verbal periphrasis studies. The central part of this study has two axes: firstly, a characterisation of ponerse a + inf, and secondly, a diachronic analysis of this verbal periphrasis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]