Verbal Periphrases in Romance

Squartini, Mario

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“…Jespersen (1924: 254-300), 2 Translational equivalence is assumed in e.g. Rohrer (1977), Squartini (1998), De Swart (2012 as opposed to Gvozdanovic (2012: 786) and Arche (2014). 3 His original system has been made available in English in Verkuyl and Le Loux-Schuringa (1985) and in chapter 1 of Verkuyl (2008).…”

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A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

González

Verkuyl

2017

Borealis

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ABSTRACT. The present paper aims at accounting for the Spanish Imperfecto, Perfecto, Pluscuamperfecto and the Indefinido by applying three binary tense oppositions: Present vs Past, Synchronous vs Posterior and Imperfect(ive) vs Perfect(ive). For the sixteen Spanish tense forms under analysis a binary approach leads to covering twelve of them. Their relation with the preterital forms outside the range of the three oppositions is accounted for by two surgical operations: (a) the notion of Imperfect(ive) is severed from the notion of ongoing progress by restricting it to underinformation about completion and by seeing continuous tense forms as involving a more complex semantics; (b) the notion of (non-)stative is strictly severed from interference of information coming from the arguments of a verb. These theoretical moves make the way free for a formal-semantic insight into the interaction of Spanish tense and aspect. It also paves the way for a principled distinction between completion and anteriority. Restricted to tense forms pertaining to the past, our analysis sheds light on the struggle for survival of tense forms outside the binary system. Keywords: tense, aspect, perfecto, pluscuamperfecto, imperfecto, indefinido, completion, aorist, anteriority, stative, nonstative, discrete, continuous, progressive, terminative, durative RESUMEN. El presente trabajo pretende describir y explicar las siguientes formas verbales del castellano: Imperfecto, Perfecto, Pluscuamperfecto e Indefinido aplicando tres oposiciones temporales binarias: Presente vs Pasado, Sincrónico vs Posterior e Imperfecto/imperfectivo vs Perfecto/perfectivo. Este acercamiento binario cubre doce de las dieciséis formas temporales del castellano analizadas. La relación entre las formas verbales que entran en el sistema binario y las formas de pretérito que no entran en el sistema se explica por dos operaciones quirúrgicas: (a) la noción de Imperfecto/imperfectivo se separa de la noción de progresivo continuo, restringiendo el valor del Imperfecto/imperfectivo a la subinformación sobre su terminación e implicando una semántica más compleja para las formas temporales progresivas; (b) la noción de (no) estatividad está estrictamente separada de la interferencia de la información aspectual procedente de los argumentos de un verbo. Estos movimientos teóricos dan vía libre a una comprensión formal-semántica de la interacción del tiempo y del aspecto en castellano. También allana el camino para una distinción argumentada entre las nociones de terminación y anterioridad. Limitado a formas verbales del pasado, nuestro análisis ilumina la batalla por la supervivencia de las formas temporales fuera del sistema binario.

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A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

González

Verkuyl

2017

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“…(This is roughly the chain of events put forward by Detges [2004: 221, 222] with respect to the Catalan go-past.) It is interesting to note, finally, that a narrative go-past is also occasionally attested in the writings of contemporary French authors (Steinkrüger, 1999(Steinkrüger, : 231, 2004. The use of the go-past as a narrative tool thus appears still to be vital in parts of the Gallo-Romance Sprachraum, offering a potentially interesting topic for future discourse analytical research.…”

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“…These person-number restrictions might seem trivial but gain interest in light of data presented by Steinkrüger (1999). Based on the occurrence of the go-past in a corpus of Catalan narrative texts with a private character from the period between 1500-1800, Steinkrüger postulates the intriguing hypothesis that the Catalan gopast (better known as the perfet perifràstic) may once have served as a marker of evidentiality.…”

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“…While the rich body of literature on the Catalan go-past has raised several fascinating morphological, semantic, narrative, and socio-linguistic issues (Steinkrüger 1999;Pérez-Saldanya & Hualde 2003;Detges 2004;Juge 2006Juge , 2008 and more), it might prove useful to revisit some of these issues under the premise of an Occitan-to-Catalan diffusion scenario, although several historical-and socio-linguistic aspects of the diffusion scenario remain to be scrutinized as well.…”

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Whatever happened to the Occitango-past?

Jacobs

Kunert

2014

RRO

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This article explores the history and present state of the Occitan go-past. Also known as the perfet perifràstic, this is a characteristic and well-studied feature of the Catalan grammar (vaig cantar go.1sg.pres.ind-sing 'I sang'), but its existence in Occitan has been ignored to the extent that Catalan is often erroneously thought to be the only Romance language with a go-past. In this article, we first explore the rise and distribution of the go-past in Old Occitan (ca. 13th to 16th centuries) and then focus on the presence of the construction in the contemporary Occitan dialects of Gascony and Guardia Piemontese (a village in Calabria, Italy). We discuss the semantic and morphological particularities of the construction in some detail for both dialects using data from a variety of (little-known) sources, including, for Guardia Piemontese, our own field data. Finally, we provide arguments for the hypothesis that the go-past developed first in Occitania and subsequently diffused into Catalan-speaking areas.

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“…as the probability that any two vertices are joined by an edge of weight w. This completely specifies the model. A demonstration allowing to generate small weighted graphs according to the model is available [22]. Note that q(0) is the probability that no edge is drawn.…”

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The weighted random graph model

Garlaschelli

2009

New J. Phys.

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We introduce the weighted random graph (WRG) model, which represents the weighted counterpart of the Erdos-Renyi random graph and provides fundamental insights into more complicated weighted networks. We find analytically that the WRG is characterized by a geometric weight distribution, a binomial degree distribution and a negative binomial strength distribution. We also characterize exactly the percolation phase transitions associated with edge removal and with the appearance of weighted subgraphs of any order and intensity. We find that even this completely null model displays a percolation behavior similar to what observed in real weighted networks, implying that edge removal cannot be used to detect community structure empirically. By contrast, the analysis of clustering successfully reveals different patterns between the WRG and real networks. 89.75.Hc,02.10.Ox,

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Verbal Periphrases in Romance

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A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

Whatever happened to the Occitango-past?

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