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Author Howe, Lewis

Title The Spanish perfects : pathways of emergent meaning / Lewis Howe
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Contents Perfect Features -- The Spanish Perfects -- The Perfect in Peruvian Spanish -- Perfective Perfects in Two Dialects of Spanish -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: A Sentence Judgment Task -- Appendix B: Interview Protocol
Summary Among the most prolifically treated topics in grammaticalization approaches to semantic change is the development of periphrastic past constructions, particularly the 'have'-perfects in Romance and other Indo-European languages. This issue is an intriguing one for language researchers since it offers the opportunity to observe language change both as an incipient process that involves the transition of some lexical element into a more 'grammatical' role as well as a process of semantic generalization without the necessity of overt structural reorganization. This book explores the development of the periphrastic past (or preťrito perfecto compuesto) in Spanish, with special attention to its cross-dialectal distribution vis-a-vis the simple perfective past (or preťrito), and assumes a multi-disciplinary perspective, drawing on insights from semantic and pragmatic as well as sociolinguistic approaches to language change. The resulting proposals, developed on the basis of spoken language data from cross-dialectal samples of Spanish, address the nature of language change and the variable forces that shape it
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Spanish language -- Tense
Spanish language -- Tense
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137029812
1137029811
129940653X
9781299406537