24.1086, Books: The Spanish Perfects: Howe

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Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:40:30
From: Flo Morgan-Wood [florence.morgan-wood at palgrave.com]
Subject: The Spanish Perfects: Howe

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Title: The Spanish Perfects 
Subtitle: Pathways of Emergent Meaning 
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Language Variation  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
	   http://www.palgrave.com

Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=584010 

Author: Lewis Chadwick Howe

Hardback: ISBN:  9781137029805 Pages: 220 Price: U.K. £ 50.00

Abstract:

Among the most prolifically treated topics in grammaticalization approaches to
semantic change is the development of periphrastic past constructions,
particularly the 'have'-perfects in Romance and other Indo-European languages.
This issue is an intriguing one for language researchers since it offers the
opportunity to observe language change both as an incipient process that
involves the transition of some lexical element into a more 'grammatical' role
as well as a process of semantic generalization without the necessity of overt
structural reorganization. This book explores the development of the
periphrastic past (or pretérito perfecto compuesto) in Spanish, with special
attention to its cross-dialectal distribution vis-à-vis the simple perfective
past (or pretérito), and assumes a multi-disciplinary perspective, drawing on
insights from semantic and pragmatic as well as sociolinguistic approaches to
language change. The resulting proposals, developed on the basis of spoken
language data from cross-dialectal samples of Spanish, address the nature of
language change and the variable forces that shape it.

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Language Family(ies): Romance

Written In: English  (eng)

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