Chapter 8. More on hodiernality

Xiqués, Teresa M.

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“…The aquest-deictic demonstrative expresses immediate proximity with respect to the hearer, and requires the Perfet (Curell 2002, Xiqués 2021. In ( 14), we find PERFECTS in both Catalan and Spanish.…”

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“…With an eye on the scale identified in Section 3, we conclude that the Spanish PERFECT subsumes the English Present Perfect in the perfective past domain and that this subset relation is linked to the fact that the Spanish PERFECT has a more extensive use in the hodiernal time interval. In the literature, the hodiernal PERFECT is analyzed either as an aorist (Schwenter 1994;Serrano 1994;Schwenter & Torres Cacoullos 2008) or as an existential PERFECT (Xiqués 2015(Xiqués , 2021. In the scalar approach adopted in this paper, we view hodiernal past time reference in Romance as one of the meaning ingredients of the aoristic drift.…”

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“…The relevance of hodiernality for the Catalan Perfet is confirmed by our data ( 12)-( 13). Xiqués (2015Xiqués ( , 2021 emphasizes that hodiernality is broader than the 24-hour rule and argues that it involves an extended deictic time span which allows temporal expressions that can make reference to the most recent (before the utterance time) relevant past time interval. In the Camus dataset, we see that hodiernal past time reference is available with locating time adverbials headed by a proximate demonstrative and combined with a clock-calendar expression, as in ( 14).…”

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Perfect variations in Romance

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The morpho-syntactic configuration auxiliary (have or be) + past participle known as the have-perfect functions as a tense-aspect category in many Western European languages. Synchronic variation within Romance nicely illustrates the developmental pattern described as the aoristic drift, whereby the perfect develops over time into a perfective past with full-fledged past meanings. A parallel corpus study of L’Étranger by Albert Camus (1942) and its translations using the Translation Mining methodology provides empirical data supporting the view that modern French, Romanian and Italian make a more liberal use of the perfect, whereas the perfect distribution in Spanish is closer to (but not identical to) English. Catalan occupies an intermediate position and Portuguese has the most restricted perfect among the Romance languages. We argue that this variation is best captured by a perfect scale, without a clear cut-off point between perfect and perfective past meaning. The meaning ingredients that govern the distribution of the have-perfect across Romance languages emerge from the parallel corpus. They include lexical, compositional and discourse semantics, and range from sensitivity to aspectual class, pluractionality, hodiernal and pre-hodiernal past time reference to narration.

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“…One important difference between the Spanish and English present perfect is that the former is considered hodiernal (Dahl 1985, p. 125;Schwenter 1994;Xiqués 2021). When a temporal adverbial expression, such as hoy 'today', explicitly links to the present, the present perfect is considered the default form in European Spanish (cf.…”

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Tense and Aspect in a Spanish Literary Work and Its Translations

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This paper reports on a literary corpus study of four grammatical tenses across four European languages. The corpus consists of a selection of eight chapters from Javier Marías’s Spanish novel Así empieza lo malo ‘Thus bad begins’, and its translations to English, Dutch, and French. We annotated 1579 verb forms in the Spanish source text for tense, and, subsequently, their translations in the other languages, distinguishing between two registers within the novel, i.e., dialogue and narration. We found that the vast majority of the Spanish tenses are translated one-to-one to their counterparts in the three languages, especially in narration. In dialogue, we found several deviations, which we could partially account for within an Optimality Theoretic approach by appealing to the notion of markedness along two different typological dimensions, namely, tense (present versus past) and aspect (imperfective versus perfective).

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“…[English, simple past] He lost his uncle, a few months ago. Xiqués (2015Xiqués ( , 2021 argues that the Catalan perfet licenses temporal measures that extend beyond the limits of the current day as long as the temporal frame provided by the context (the current year in ( 20)) includes both the event time and the utterance time.…”

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Intermediate perfects

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The cross-linguistic variation in distribution and meaning of perfect constructions building on have + past participle in Western European languages has been analysed in terms of the aoristic drift, the shift from resultative via perfect to perfective past meaning that takes us from ‘classical’ perfect languages like English to ‘liberal’ perfect languages like French. This paper challenges the (often implicit) assumption that there is a single path along the aoristic drift, resulting in a linear perfect scale. Data coming from translation corpora reveal that the perfect in three ‘intermediate’ languages (Dutch, Catalan and Breton) is sensitive to lexical aspect (state vs. event), narrativity and hodiernal vs. pre-hodiernal past time reference. These meaning ingredients appear in different combinations in the three languages, thereby establishing them as independent dimensions of variation. The conclusion that there are multiple paths along the aoristic drift has implications for the cross-linguistic semantics of tense and aspect.

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Chapter 8. More on hodiernality

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Perfect variations in Romance

Perfect variations in Romance

Tense and Aspect in a Spanish Literary Work and Its Translations

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