Focus on speaker subjective involvement in Present Perfect grammaticalization: Evidence from two spanish varieties
As part of a widespread inclination in languages that draws attention to particular chunks of information over others, the variation of Present Perfect (PP) and Preterit (Pret) in Spanish provides speakers with an effective mechanism that projects one particular past event over others in narrative....
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2013-11-01
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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/2525 |