In:The Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect in Discourse
Lukas Müller
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 279] 2023
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Published online: 8 February 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.279.toc
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Table of contents
List of figuresXI
List of tablesXIII
List of abbreviationsXV
AcknowledgementsXVII
Chapter 1.Introduction1
1.1A cross-linguistic perspective on the PPCpt and the
PPCsp2
1.2The discursive approach5
1.3Goals of the study8
1.4Overview of the chapters10
Chapter 2.Fundamentals13
2.1Tense14
2.1.1The ingredients of tense14
2.1.2Quantificational vs. referential tense23
2.2Aspect30
2.2.1Situation aspect30
2.2.2Viewpoint aspect33
2.3Adverbials35
2.4Tense and aspect in discourse40
2.4.1The macro-structure: Modes of discourse41
2.4.2The micro-structure: Syntagmatic relations45
2.5The Present Perfect as a cross-linguistic category52
2.5.1Diachrony and grammaticalization52
2.5.2Synchrony59
2.6Conclusion67
Chapter 3.The Portuguese Pretérito Perfeito Composto69
3.1General meaning and meaning effects70
3.2A note on diatopic variation77
3.3Quantificational readings79
3.3.1Ipex readings79
3.3.2Universal reading83
3.3.3Characterizing readings89
3.3.4Overview93
3.4Adverbials96
3.5Discourse99
3.5.1PPCpt + PPCpt99
3.5.2PPCpt + Pretérito Perfeito
Simples101
3.5.3PPCpt + Present Tense103
3.5.4The macro-structure of discourse105
3.6Conclusion107
Chapter 4.The Spanish Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto111
4.1General meaning and meaning effects112
4.2A note on diatopic variation116
4.3Quantificational readings119
4.3.1Experiential reading120
4.3.2Resultative reading122
4.3.3Hot news reading126
4.3.4Universal reading127
4.3.5Overview130
4.4Is there a referential reading?131
4.5Adverbials136
4.6Discourse139
4.6.1PPCsp + PPCsp142
4.6.2PPCsp + Indefinido144
4.6.3PPCsp + Pluscuamperfecto
/Imperfecto149
4.6.4The macro-structure of discourse152
4.7Conclusion154
Chapter 5.Corpus study157
5.1Introduction158
5.1.1Composition of the corpus158
5.1.2Analysis of the data163
5.1.3Overall frequencies164
5.2Adverbials167
5.2.1Expectations167
5.2.2Portuguese167
5.2.3Spanish169
5.2.4Discussion175
5.3The micro-structure of discourse176
5.3.1Expectations177
5.3.2Portuguese178
5.3.3Spanish189
5.3.4Discussion198
5.4Conclusion203
Chapter 6.The PPCsp’s referential drift209
6.1The PPCsp between quantification and
reference210
6.2The attached Imperfecto as a test case for the
PPCsp’s cataphoric potential217
6.3Prominence and the PPCsp219
6.3.1General remarks on prominence in discourse219
6.3.2Prominent event domain vs. prominent post-state domain220
6.4Experiment: Acceptability judgements of PPCsp +
Imperfecto224
6.4.1Methodology226
6.4.2Statistical analysis and results232
6.4.3Discussion238
6.5Conclusion245
Chapter 7.Conclusions249
7.1PPCpt and PPCsp as
quantificational tense forms250
7.2Similarities and differences on the level of discourse253
7.3Outlook256
Bibliography259
List of items included in the experiment271
Index275
