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Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteño Spanish and Beyond: A Critical Perspective on Cognitive Grammaticalization Theory: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics, cartea 6

Autor Guro Fløgstad
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 mar 2016
In Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteño Spanish and Beyond, Guro Nore Fløgstad offers an original account of the way in which the Preterit category has expanded, at the expense of the Perfect, in Porteño Spanish – a variety spoken in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Through primary sources and a large cross-linguistic sample, Fløgstad convincingly shows that the expansion of a Preterit is not rare in the languages of the world. This finding challenges the prevailing view in historical morphosyntax, and especially in usage-based grammaticalization theory, namely the alleged preference for analytic over synthetic forms, and the possibility of prediction based on the source meaning in grammaticalization.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004309098
ISBN-10: 9004309098
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics


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List of figures
List of tables
Abbreviations used in glosses

1Introduction
1.1Competing categories
1.2A model for the expansion of the Preterit

2Theoretical background
2.1Diachrony and usage-based linguistics
2.2Tense and aspect: General

3Porteño Spanish: Background and previous research
3.1Sociolinguistic context
3.2Sociohistorical context
3.3The Porteño Spanish variety

4Source determination, diachronic regularity, and the development of perfects
4.1Source determination and the development of perfects
4.2The diachronic development of perfects
4.3Accounts for developments of past/past perfective
4.4Summary

5Method
5.1General
5.2Method and semantic and grammatical change
5.3The choice of method
5.4Factors and variables
5.5Creating a corpus: Oral data/interviews

6Results
6.1Overview
6.2The general decrease in the Preterit to express past with CR
6.3Perfects and Preterits in age group I
6.4Perfects and Preterits in age group II
6.5Synchrony: Tense and aspect in present-day Porteño Spanish
6.6Uruguayan sources
6.7HABCULT interviews
6.8Secondary written source: Introductory texts
6.9Summary of results

7Subfunction variation as the source of the expansion of the Preterit
7.1General
7.2What has happened to the Porteño Spanish Preterit?
7.3Creating a model for the Preterit’s expansion
7.4How is the CR reading arrived at? The creation of the subfunction variation
7.5The “why”: Pragmatic motivations
7.6Subfunction variation as the key to understanding the Preterit’s expansion
7.7The end result: The unstable Perfect
7.8Contact? A note on the further spread and its causes

8Synthesis
8.1Results: Empirical findings
8.2Cross-linguistic considerations
8.3Theoretical remarks

References


Notă biografică

Guro Nore Fløgstad, Ph.D. (2015, University of Oslo) is a researcher at The Center for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan (MultiLing) at The University of Oslo. She has published both academically and for the general public, and conducts research on directionality and morphosyntactic change, with focus on Romance and Romani.