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Preterit expansion and perfect demise in Porteño Spanish and beyond : a critical perspective on cognitive grammaticalization theory /

In Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteño Spanish and Beyond, Guro Nore Fløgstad offers an original account of the way in which the Preterit category has expanded, at the expense of the Perfect, in Porteño Spanish - a variety spoken in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through primary sources and a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fløgstad, Guro, 1981- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Series:Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; v. 6.
Subjects:
Spanish language > South America > Argentina.
Spanish language > Provincialisms > Argentina > Buenos Aires.
Spanish language > Dialects > Argentina > Buenos Aires.
Spanish language > Grammaticalization.
Espagnol (Langue) > Régionalismes > Argentine > Buenos Aires.
Espagnol (Langue) > Dialectes > Argentine > Buenos Aires.
Espagnol (Langue) > Grammaticalisation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Spanish language.
Spanish language > Dialects.
Spanish language > Provincialisms.
Argentina > Buenos Aires.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Guro Nore Fløgstad
  • 1 Introduction / Guro Nore Fløgstad
  • 2 Theoretical Background / Guro Nore Fløgstad
  • 3 Porteño Spanish: Background and Previous Research / Guro Nore Fløgstad
  • 4 Source Determination, Diachronic Regularity, and the Development of Perfects / Guro Nore Fløgstad
  • 5 Method / Guro Nore Fløgstad
  • 6 Results / Guro Nore Fløgstad
  • 7 Subfunction Variation as the Source of the Expansion of the Preterit / Guro Nore Fløgstad
  • 8 Synthesis / Guro Nore Fløgstad
  • References / Guro Nore Fløgstad
  • Index / Guro Nore Fløgstad.