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

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Author / Creator:	Fløgstad, Guro, 1981- author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics ; 6 Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; v. 6.
Subject:	Spanish language -- South America -- Argentina. Spanish language -- Provincialisms -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires. Spanish language -- Dialects -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires. Spanish language -- Grammaticalization. Spanish language. Spanish language -- Dialects. Spanish language -- Provincialisms. Argentina -- Buenos Aires. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11397685

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ISBN:	9789004309081 900430908X 9789004309098 9004309098
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2016).
Summary:	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 large cross-linguistic sample, Fløgstad convincingly shows that the expansion of a Preterit is not rare in the languages of the world. This finding challenges the prevailing view in historical morphosyntax, and especially in usage-based grammaticalization theory, namely the alleged preference for analytic over synthetic forms, and the possibility of prediction based on the source meaning in grammaticalization. This book is fully available in Open Access.
Other form:	Print version: Preterit expansion and perfect demise in Porteño Spanish and beyond. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004309098
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004309081

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