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Author:   Guro Flogstad
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.953kg
ISBN:  

9789004309098

ISBN 10:   9004309098
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   24 March 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of figures List of tables 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 References

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Guro Nore Flogstad, Ph.D. (2015, University of Oslo) is a researcher at The Center for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan (MultiLing) at The University of Oslo. She has published both academically and for the general public, and conducts research on directionality and morphosyntactic change, with focus on Romance and Romani.

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