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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Main Author: Iker Zulaica Hernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2012-12-01
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