The Spanish Perfects [electronic resource] : Pathways of Emergent Meaning /
Howe, L.author.
This book considers the role of cross-dialectal data in our understanding of linguistic variability, focusing on the widely discussed dichotomy between past tense forms and relying primarily on spoken language data from different varieties of Spanish.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Previous analyses; 1.2 The evolution of the periphrastic past in Romance; 1.3 Methodology; 1.4 Overview of the book; 2 Perfect Features; 2.1 Preliminary observations; 2.2 Cross-linguistic features of periphrastic past constructions; 2.3 The periphrastic past in Romance; 2.4 Summary; 3 The Spanish Perfects; 3.1 Preliminary observations; 3.2 Simple vs periphrastic past: cross-dialectal frequencies; 3.3 Cross-dialectal semantic features of the periphrastic past; 3.4 Summary and discussion
4 The Perfect in Peruvian Spanish4.1 Semantic features of the Peruvian perfect; 4.2 Additional perfective uses of the perfect in Peruvian Spanish; 4.3 Conclusions; 5 Perfective Perfects in Two Dialects of Spanish; 5.1 Sentence judgment task; 5.2 Results; 5.3 Semantic change and Spanish perfective perfect(s); 5.4 Conclusions; 6 Conclusions; 6.1 Feature typology; 6.2 Perfect features across Spanish; 6.3 Remaining issues; Appendix A: Sentence Judgment Task; Appendix B: Interview Protocol; Notes; Bibliography; Subject Index; Author Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
This book considers the role of cross-dialectal data in our understanding of linguistic variability, focusing on the widely discussed dichotomy between past tense forms and relying primarily on spoken language data from different varieties of Spanish.
Romance languages.
Sociolinguistics.
Comparative linguistics.
Romance Languages.
Sociolinguistics.
Comparative Linguistics.