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Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteno Spanish and Beyond: A Critical Perspective on Cognitive Grammaticalization Theory

By Guro Flogstad

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2016
ISBN
9004309098, 9789004309098
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1307873 bytes)
Series
Brill’s Studies in Historical Linguistics
Pages
210\223
Time added
2018-03-13 02:26:27
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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.

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