A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

The present paper aims at accounting for the Spanish Imperfecto, Perfecto, Pluscuamperfecto and the Indefinido by applying three binary tense oppositions: Present vs Past, Synchronous vs Posterior and Imperfect(ive) vs Perfect(ive). For the sixteen Spanish tense forms under analysis a binary approa...

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Main Authors: Paz Gonzalez, Henk Verkuyl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2017-05-01
Series:Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/4096