Estudios de gramatica funcional del espanol

Flam, Bernard P.; Llorach, Emilio Alarcos

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“…Typically, the Present Perfect (PP) is characterized in Spanish as a structure expressing a completed situation with present relevance (Alarcos Llorach 1970;Cartagena 1999;Schwenter 1994a). In contrast, the Preterit (Pret) communicates completed situations in the past without present relevance but related to certain points of reference.…”

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The microvariation of the Spanish perfect in three varieties

2019

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This study investigates the variability in the use of the Preterit canté ('I sang') and the Present Perfect he cantado ('I have sung') across three Spanish dialects: Peninsular (PEN), Peruvian (PER) and Argentinian (AR). For this purpose, we analyze the effect of type of context and temporal adverbials on the selection of these two forms. The corpus has been obtained through online questionnaires, comprising a total of thirty-two exercises that evaluate the use of the two verb forms in the following contexts: continuative, relevance of present, life experience, prehodiernal context and without temporal adverbs. The results of this research seek to contribute to the description of dialectal differences with respect to the use of the Preterit and the Present Perfect from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective.

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The microvariation of the Spanish perfect in three varieties

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C. H. Stevenson, The Spanish language today. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1970. Pp. xii + 146. - Horst Isenberg, Das direkte Objekt im Spanischen. (Studia Grammatica IX.) Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1968. Pp. 278.

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JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS select two animals that appear in the narratives, such as a jaguar and a stag, and say they are transformations. The remaining papers are not entirely uninteresting. Turner, for instance, more likely has something. At least a certain amount of culture learning must have taken place during his ethnographic field work so that his interpretations are presumably closer to the mark than those someone might write who had never lived with the people. But Turner provides us with no procedures, such as those developed by Metzger and Williams, for dealing formally with the data or testing it either with informants, or by other means. Leach's writing rearranges the interpretations of Radcliffe-Brown on Andamanese myths. He himself admits that whether or not a 'structuralist' approach gains insight in the rearranging of the 'functionalist' study by Radcliffe is 'a matter of opinion'. He then goes on to say, 'The purpose of this essay has simply been to show that the two frames of reference are not all that different, though I have to admit that if we are to read the works of the classical functionalists with structuralist understanding, a great deal of verbal euphoria has to be shorn away.' The book ends with a pretentious display that underlines an attitude among many analysts of traditional narratives which is difficult for me to understand. Four variants of a Sherente myth were sent to the contributors of the volume with an invitation to provide analyses and comments. The pretension here is that myth analysis has reached a sufficiently advanced state of scientific sophistication as to enable one or more myths to be subjected to various analyses in some sort of 'blind' situation, as though some sort of scientific control were being applied. Such analyses would then be uncontaminated by the influence of collateral ethnographic (or even narrative) data which was not accessible to the analysts. While those who took the bait all seemed to agree on the usefulness of collateral information, they nevertheless proceed to rush in with an analysis-all except Dundes, who refuses to play the game. Maybury-Lewis, in all his ethnographic wisdom, proceeds to give us his own discussion of the stories, cluing us in on the way things really are for the Sherente. The pronouncements of the ethnographer are the final test: 'Thus myths collected by members of the Harvard-Central Brazil project are being formally analysed and the results of the analysis will then be put to the ethnographers for confirmation.' Reviewed by B.

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Principles of variationism for disambiguating language contact phenomena: The case of lone Spanish nouns in Catalan discourse

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Tricker

2000

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Using the variationist comparative method, the status of ambiguous lone Spanishorigin nouns in Catalan discourse is determined by analyzing their distribution and conditioning and by comparing them to their counterparts in unmixed Spanish or in multiple-word code-switches. Some areas of the nominal grammar have been selected for contrastive purposes (determination, complementation, gender, number) because they represent sites of coincidence as well as conflict between the two languages in contact, Spanish and Catalan. The main conclusion of this research is that Spanish-origin nouns in an otherwise Catalan context present grammatical variability similar to that of Catalan nouns, and that they behave differently from Spanish nouns in a monolingual context. In short, the grammar of these nouns is Catalan, and their categorial status is that of loanwords and not that of code-switches.

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Estudios de gramatica funcional del espanol

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The microvariation of the Spanish perfect in three varieties

The microvariation of the Spanish perfect in three varieties

C. H. Stevenson, The Spanish language today. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1970. Pp. xii + 146. - Horst Isenberg, Das direkte Objekt im Spanischen. (Studia Grammatica IX.) Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1968. Pp. 278.

Principles of variationism for disambiguating language contact phenomena: The case of lone Spanish nouns in Catalan discourse

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