Preterit expansion and perfect demise in Porteño Spanish and beyond : a critical perspective on cognitive grammaticalization theory
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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 / series editor, Jóhanna Barðdal ; consulting editor, Spike Gildea, v. 6）
Brill, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-206) and index
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Description
In Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteno Spanish and Beyond, Guro Nore Flogstad offers an original account of the way in which the Preterit category has expanded, at the expense of the Perfect, in Porteno Spanish - a variety spoken in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Through primary sources and a large cross-linguistic sample, Flogstad 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.
Table of Contents
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Abbreviations used in glosses
1 Introduction
1.1 Competing categories
1.2 A model for the expansion of the Preterit
2 Theoretical background
2.1 Diachrony and usage-based linguistics
2.2 Tense and aspect: General
3 Porteno Spanish: Background and previous research
3.1 Sociolinguistic context
3.2 Sociohistorical context
3.3 The Porteno Spanish variety
4 Source determination, diachronic regularity, and the development of perfects
4.1 Source determination and the development of perfects
4.2 The diachronic development of perfects
4.3 Accounts for developments of past/past perfective
4.4 Summary
5 Method
5.1 General
5.2 Method and semantic and grammatical change
5.3 The choice of method
5.4 Factors and variables
5.5 Creating a corpus: Oral data/interviews
6 Results
6.1 Overview
6.2 The general decrease in the Preterit to express past with CR
6.3 Perfects and Preterits in age group I
6.4 Perfects and Preterits in age group II
6.5 Synchrony: Tense and aspect in present-day Porteno Spanish
6.6 Uruguayan sources
6.7 HABCULT interviews
6.8 Secondary written source: Introductory texts
6.9 Summary of results
7 Subfunction variation as the source of the expansion of the Preterit
7.1 General
7.2 What has happened to the Porteno Spanish Preterit?
7.3 Creating a model for the Preterit's expansion
7.4 How is the CR reading arrived at? The creation of the subfunction variation
7.5 The "why": Pragmatic motivations
7.6 Subfunction variation as the key to understanding the Preterit's expansion
7.7 The end result: The unstable Perfect
7.8 Contact? A note on the further spread and its causes
8 Synthesis
8.1 Results: Empirical findings
8.2 Cross-linguistic considerations
8.3 Theoretical remarks
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