Aspect and the Categorization of States: The case of ser and estar in Spanish
David Brian Roby
In this work, the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values [±Perfective], which are the same ones overtly expressed by the preterite and imperfect past tense forms in Spanish. It can therefore be shown that… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 114] 2009. xiii, 191 pp.