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Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteno Spanish and Beyond: A Critical Perspective on Cognitive Grammaticalization Theory

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In Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteno Spanish and Beyond, Guro Nore Flogstad offers an original account of the way in which the Preterit category has expanded, at the expense of the Perfect, in Porteno Spanish - a variety spoken in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through primary sources and a large cross-linguistic sample, Flogstad convincingly shows that the expansion of a Preterit is not rare in the languages of the world. This finding challenges the prevailing view in historical morphosyntax, and especially in usage-based grammaticalization theory, namely the alleged preference for analytic over synthetic forms, and the possibility of prediction based on the source meaning in grammaticalization. This book is fully available in Open Access.
Request Code : ZLIBIO2196628
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Year:
2016
Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
210
ISBN 10:
9004309098
ISBN 13:
9789004309098
ISBN:
9004309098,9789004309098
Series:
Brill’s Studies in Historical Linguistics

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