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This article aims to shed new light on the history of en + gerundio. Specifically, it attempts to offer a description of this form’s use and eventual disappearance, by examining the competition it has maintained with other adverbs and locutions over time. The article is divided into three main sections. The first presents the origins and previous findings on the phenomenon being studied, its geo- graphical distribution, and its time value. Studies on the prepositional gerund have mostly explained its use and values according to its behavior in contemporary Spanish. The second section presents new data, compiled from various historical and contemporary linguistic corpuses, and questions previous characterizations and explanations. The last section offers an alternative to traditional explanations, based on the evolution of the prepositional gerund in comparison with its competitors.

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Spanish, History of Language, Prepositional Gerund, Grammatical Loss

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Enrique Pato Maldonado, Université de Montréal. Pavillon Lionel-Groulx

6128, Montreal (Quebec) - Canadá