Perífrasis verbales con infinitivo en documentación leonesa medieval

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the verbal periphrases with infinitives that appear in documentation from different areas of the ancient Kingdom of León. The study is centred on notarial texts mainly from the 13th century and, more specifically, on the over 600 documents that make up the Colección Diplomática del monasterio de Carrizo (León), although Fueros (codos of law) and documents from other Le onese areas like Salamanca, Zamora and Asturias have also been taken into consideration. The most commonly occurring periphrases whith infinitives are those that have a modal value. There are also periphrases that indicate an order of process (action not carried out, habitual or continuing action), although they are less frequent. In short, the values presentad by these periphrases in Leonese clocumentation differ hardly at all from those that appear in medieval Castilian. However, it should be remembered that we refer to notarial texts, written in a special style that uses many fixed formula expressions. This reflects only minimally all the varieties of periphrases that could appear in the spoken language and which do, in fact, still appear in wide AsturianLeonese dialectal arcas nowadays.