Spanish Aspect and the Nature of Linguistic Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9862882 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edelmiro Salas Gonzalez (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 155 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/345498 |
| OpenAlex | W2040938640 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Evidence from adverbial modification in Spanish shows that the imperfect restricts eventualities to occur or obtain at open time intervals, while the preterite inflection restricts eventualities to closed time intervals. The evidence supports a temporal ontology in which linguistic time is a continuous linear order
Linguistic change · Linguistic description · Linguistics · Sociology · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Highly cited | No |
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