A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past
| Autor: | González, Paz, Verkuyl, H.J., Emeriti TLC |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Emeriti TLC |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Battle
nonstative imperfecto media_common.quotation_subject tense Tense–aspect–mood anteriority aspect Binary number Verb progressive Semantics continuous pluscuamperfecto aspect and tense studies formal semantic binary approach Spanish past tenses lcsh:P1-1091 perfecto durative Relation (history of concept) completion media_common Mathematics 060201 languages & linguistics aorist stative 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Linguistics indefinido terminative lcsh:Philology. Linguistics 0602 languages and literature discrete Imperfect |
| Zdroj: | Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2017) Borealis-An international journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 6, 97 Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics; Vol 6, No 1 (2017); 97-138 Borealis : An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 6(1), 97-138 Borealis : An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics |
| ISSN: | 1893-3211 |
| Popis: | The present paper aims at accounting for the Spanish Imperfecto, Perfecto, Pluscuamperfecto and the Indefinido by applying three binary tense oppositions: Present vs Past, Synchronous vs Posterior and Imperfect(ive) vs Perfect(ive). For the sixteen Spanish tense forms under analysis a binary approach leads to covering twelve of them. Their relation with the preterital forms outside the range of the three oppositions is accounted for by two surgical operations: (a) the notion of Imperfect(ive) is severed from the notion of ongoing progress by restricting it to underinformation about completion and by seeing continuous tense forms as involving a more complex semantics; (b) the notion of (non-)stative is strictly severed from interference of information coming from the arguments of a verb. These theoretical moves make the way free for a formal-semantic insight into the interaction of Spanish tense and aspect. It also paves the way for a principled distinction between completion and anteriority. Restricted to tense forms pertaining to the past, our analysis sheds light on the struggle for survival of tense forms outside the binary system. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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