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MARTEL PAREDES, Víctor Arturo. Pasarse + gerund as a pseudocopulative verb. A synchronic analysis with data from Lima, Peru. Nueva rev. filol. hisp. [online]. 2023, vol.71, n.2, pp.531-555.  Epub 08-Set-2023. ISSN 2448-6558.  https://doi.org/10.24201/nrfh.v71i2.3869.

In this paper I present an analysis of the frequentative verbal periphrasis pasarse + gerund. I offer a description and analysis of the pronominal clitic in pasarse, characterized as middle voice; I discuss the obligatory nature of a depictive gerund, due to the desemantization of pasarse and its significance as an aspectual pseudo-copulative that connects the subject with a stage-level predicate; and I examine the selection of a complement of time, corresponding to a complement, not of event, but of aspect. I conclude that these characteristics point to a void of lexical content and predominance of functional features of aspect.

Palavras-chave : frequentative; voice; depictive; complement; aspect.