| In good part of the linguistic studies it has been spoken of sustantivaciones, adjectival uses, etc., like changes of group that take place in precise units of concrete languages. Although different denominations have been used to allude to these modifications (transposition, syntactic transposition, transcategorización, categorial conversion, metábasis, etc.), the term syntactic traslacion has been used to talk about to the categorial change since linguist L. Tesnière coined it in 1959. Although, at a first moment, it can seem that the change of verbal category (noun, adjective, verb and adverb) is a mechanism of generally accepted linguistic analysis, a deeper study notices to us that hardly we will find, in those who are in favor of the existence of transferings, the indispensable homogeneity of criteria when determining any instrument of scientific analysis. Thus, when examining the works where, or explicitly or implicitly, the existence of categorial changes is recognized, we verified that: (1) there is no agreement at the time of establishing the nature of the mechanism (in most of the cases, different criteria in the explanation are mixed), and (2) we even got to find that, in a same study, different cases from sustantivaciones, adjectival uses, etc., do not receive analog treatment (they are justified using different and, sometimes, divergent criteria). These and others difficulties that will be arising throughout the investigation will take us to raise if, really, the syntactic transfering can be conceived, of the form in that it appears in the analyzed studies, like mechanism of categorial change. Further on, we will even get to question the possibility of displaying the categorial change like grammar concept, that is to say, like part of a universal grammar necessarily immersed in the scope of the theory of the language. |
