Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteño Spanish and Beyond

Abstract

Perfect/Preterit in age group II 112 8 Distribution of Perfect and Preterit to express past with CR in HABCULT 130 9 Expression of experientiality in HABCULT 137 10 Expression of persistent situation 138 11 General use of Perfect/Preterit, age groups I and II, HABCULT 141 12 A formalization of linguistic change (from Norde 2009: 16) 147 13 Expression of experientiality in HABCULT, introductory texts 150 14 Expression of persistent situation in HABCULT, introductory texts 150 15 Ranking from past to present after Croft (2012: 143) 158 16 The center of the TMA system, after Dahl (1985: 139) 177 17 Functions of Peninsular Spanish Perfect and Preterit 189 18 Functions of Porteño Spanish Preterit 189 19 Functions of French Passé Composé 189 List of Tables 1 Perfages, after Bybee et al. (1994: 106) 25 2 Tripartite past tense/aspect system, after Bybee et al. (1994: 83) 32 3 Perfect/Preterit distribution in three Spanish varieties, after Howe and Rodríguez Louro (2013: 50) 72 4 Perfect/Preterit in a selection of Romance languages 74 5 Perfect/Preterit in a selection of Germanic languages 77 6 Subfunctions and typical co-occurrence with adverbials 83 7 Informants from Buenos Aires 89 8 Informants from Uruguay 90 9 HABCULT informants, from Buenos Aires 90 10 Distribution of Preterit and Perfect, absolute numbers 97 11 Perfect/Preterit in age group I 100 12 Perfect/Preterit in Argentinean Spanish (adapted from Howe & Rodríguez Louro 2013: 50) 101 13 Distribution of Perfect and Preterit in informant 6 110 14 Distribution of Perfect and Preterit in informant 8 111 15 Subfunction distribution in age group II 113 16 Preterit + TA co-occurrence in age group II 121 17 Preterit/Perfect in UYCORP 128 18 HABCULT subfunction distribution 130 19 Detailed distribution in expression of experiential and persistent situation 136 20 Stages in semantic change (based on Enfield 2003: 29) 148 21 Modified version of Enfield (2003); competing forms, Porteño Spanish 148 22 Experiential vs. past perfective 156 23 The transitional context allowing for CR interpretation 167 24 Perfect and Preterit distribution of past with current relevance in Sánchez (1880 [1966]) 174 Abbreviations Used in Glosses 1 first person 2 second person 3 third person ADV adverbial IMP imperative INF infinitive IPFV imperfective NEG negation PFV perfective PL plural PRF perfect PRS present PRT preterit PST past PTCP

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