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Abstract

This paper describes, compares and analyses different evidential values conveyed by the Spanish pluperfect in two contact varieties in Argentina and Paraguay: Spanish in contact with Quechua and Guarani.On basis on a detailed description of the grammars involved in each contact situation we examine, on the one hand, wether the constructions are due to tranference processes and, on the other hand, we determine the type of the grammatical element transferred, according to the framework of the Generative Grammar (Chomsky, 1981 and subsequent work) and, especially, the Distributed Morphology approach (Halle & Marantz, 1993. Finally, we evaluate the implications of this analysis for the sistematization of the interlinguistic variation within the generative framework.