The present perfect in English and in Catalan

Curell, Hortènsia; Jaszczolt, Kasia M.; Turner, Ken

doi:10.1075/pbns.99.10cur

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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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“…Pérez Saldanya (2002), Curell (2002), Curell & Coll (2007) and Martínez-Atienza (2008) claim that Catalan has a hodiernal PERFECT similar to Spanish. The relevance of hodiernality for the Catalan Perfet is confirmed by our data ( 12)-( 13).…”

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“…The interval denoted by the locating time adverbials in ( 14)-( 16)-( 17) extends further to the past but is still connected to the present time sphere. The Perfet is the tense form of choice here because the Catalan Passat Perifràstic is restricted to pre-hodiernal past time reference (Pérez- Saldanya 1998, Curell 2002, Xiqués 2015. As for (17d), the use of the Passat Perifràstic might be expected given the pre-hodiernal location of the event, but it seems that the deictic nature of fa XP 'makes XP' is sufficient to define the location of the event time with respect to the utterance (Kempas 2021).…”

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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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“…There is a lot of parametric variation between languages with respect to the compatibility of the past-oriented and/or punctual temporal adverbials with the present perfect: while in English and the majority of Scandinavian languages the restriction is very strict, it is completely absent in German, Dutch, French or Italian and somewhat restricted in Catalan and Spanish, which allow for the presence of punctual adverbials in the perfect (i.e., at 10 o'clock) but not for the past adverbial modifiers like last year (cf. Curell 1990;Klein 1992;Kamp & Reyle 1993;Giorgi & Pianesi 1997;Musan 2002;Rothstein 2008;Schaden 2009; Xiqués Garcia 2015).…”

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Participles: Form, use and meaning

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Gehrke²

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper serves as an introduction to a special collection on the form, use and meaning of past passive participles used in perfect and passive constructions. We discuss various issues which later become prominent in the papers of the volume, which include morphology and participle formation, the use of past passive participles in perfect forms, as well as in verbal and adjectival passives, and the interpretation of such participles. Given that participles in general are characterised as a mixed category with verbal and adjectival properties, we devote some time to address the source of the verbal and adjectival characteristics as well as the source of stativity and eventivity in the interpretation of past passive participles.

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“…Catalan has also another reading which English does not have, i.e., the so-called hodiernal 1 reading (see Curell 1990Curell , 2002Curell , 2003Curell & Coll 2007;Giorgi & Pianesi 1997; among others), cf. (2a) (from Pérez Saldanya 2002: 2593 and (2b).…”

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The grammatical properties of 'since'

Xiqués¹

2015

Borealis

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ABSTRACT. In this paper, I compare the grammatical properties of English since PPs, which have been analysed as perfect-level adverbials (Iatridou et al. 2001), with Catalan des de PPs. I argue against the claim that prepositions like since are ambiguous between a universal and an existential interpretation and show that an analysis based on the grammatical restrictions imposed by the temporal path denoted by des de or since determine the available readings of PrP sentences modified by desde or since.Keywords. Present perfect, since, universal, existential RESUMEN. En este artículo, comparo las propiedades gramaticales del complemento introducido por la preposición since en inglés, el cual ha estado analizado como un complemento adverbial del perfecto (Iatridou et al. 2001), con el complemento temporal encabezado por des de en catalán. Argumento en contra de la idea que el pretérito perfecto compuesto o las preposiciones como since son ambiguas entre una interpretación universal y existencial. Demuestro que un análisis basado en las restricciones gramaticales impuestas por la trayectoria temporal denotada por des de y since determina las lecturas de las oraciones de perfecto modificadas por este tipo de complementos en ambas lenguas.Palabras clave. Pretérito perfecto compuesto, desde, universal, existencial

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The present perfect in English and in Catalan

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Perfect variations in Romance

Perfect variations in Romance

Participles: Form, use and meaning

The grammatical properties of 'since'

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