Temporal constraints in the use of demonstratives in Iberian Spanish
Natural linguistic data show that a close relationship exists among demonstratives and time in Spanish. Such connection appears to be of a pragmatic nature whereby linguistic expressions that encode or denote time license the use of demonstratives under certain conditions.The aforementioned connecti...
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Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2012-12-01
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Series: | Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/septentrio/index.php/borealis/article/view/2350 |