Title Preterit expansion and perfect demise in Porteño Spanish and beyond : a critical perspective on cognitive grammaticalization theory / Guro Nore Fløgstad

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource Series Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics ; 6 Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; v. 6. Contents Preliminary Material / Guro Nore Fløgstad -- 1 Introduction / Guro Nore Fløgstad -- 2 Theoretical Background / Guro Nore Fløgstad -- 3 Porteño Spanish: Background and Previous Research / Guro Nore Fløgstad -- 4 Source Determination, Diachronic Regularity, and the Development of Perfects / Guro Nore Fløgstad -- 5 Method / Guro Nore Fløgstad -- 6 Results / Guro Nore Fløgstad -- 7 Subfunction Variation as the Source of the Expansion of the Preterit / Guro Nore Fløgstad -- 8 Synthesis / Guro Nore Fløgstad -- References / Guro Nore Fløgstad -- Index / Guro Nore Fløgstad Summary 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. This book is fully available in Open Access Analysis Historical & comparative linguistics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2016) Subject Spanish language -- South America -- Argentina Spanish language -- Provincialisms -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires Spanish language -- Dialects -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires Spanish language -- Grammaticalization LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General. Spanish language Spanish language -- Dialects Spanish language -- Provincialisms Argentina -- Buenos Aires Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book LC no. 2016003004 ISBN 9789004309081 900430908X

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