Introduction: Tense and Aspect across Languages

Bruyn, Bert Le; Swart, H.E. de

doi:10.3390/languages8010033

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“…In Table 2, we only listed the tuples that appear more than once, removing 15 contexts. In line with Le Bruyn et al (2022b), we hypothesized that this restriction was likely to discard tuples exhibiting translation-induced rather than grammatical variation. Manual inspection of the individual contexts suggested that this hypothesis was on the right track and given that we target grammatical variation, we proceeded with the removal of the contexts corresponding to these tuples.…”

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“…We furthermore argue that the domain of the PERFECT scale can be narrowed down further to the perfective past domain. To make both points, we follow Le Bruyn et al (2022b) in constructing a secondary dataset based on all contexts in Chapter 1 of L'Étranger in which the languages included in our main corpus use finite indicative tense forms.…”

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Perfect variations in Romance

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The morpho-syntactic configuration auxiliary (have or be) + past participle known as the have-perfect functions as a tense-aspect category in many Western European languages. Synchronic variation within Romance nicely illustrates the developmental pattern described as the aoristic drift, whereby the perfect develops over time into a perfective past with full-fledged past meanings. A parallel corpus study of L’Étranger by Albert Camus (1942) and its translations using the Translation Mining methodology provides empirical data supporting the view that modern French, Romanian and Italian make a more liberal use of the perfect, whereas the perfect distribution in Spanish is closer to (but not identical to) English. Catalan occupies an intermediate position and Portuguese has the most restricted perfect among the Romance languages. We argue that this variation is best captured by a perfect scale, without a clear cut-off point between perfect and perfective past meaning. The meaning ingredients that govern the distribution of the have-perfect across Romance languages emerge from the parallel corpus. They include lexical, compositional and discourse semantics, and range from sensitivity to aspectual class, pluractionality, hodiernal and pre-hodiernal past time reference to narration.

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Section: Distributional Patterns Of Perfect Formsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: The Perfect Scale: Robustness and Domainmentioning

confidence: 99%