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El pretérito Perfecto Compuesto de correspondencias epistolares en el Uruguay de los siglos XVIII Y XIX

Henderson, Carlos LU (2018) In Lingüística 34(2). p.51-79
Abstract

This paper focuses on the use of the Compound Past (CP) found in a set of epistolary letters from the 18th and 19th centuries' Uruguay. It is claimed that the CP already at this time encodes situations that are conceptualized within a temporal frame of indeterminacy. All the cases of CP in 66 letters are analyzed according to its contexts – with or without temporal determinants; in colocational environments; any significant relation with surrounding tokens of the Simple Past (SP); and the variation between these two tenses in the same statement. The results show, depending on the case, a strong formulaic feature, indeterminate temporal adverbials or the absence of such adverbials, tokens of SP canonically endorsed... (More)

This paper focuses on the use of the Compound Past (CP) found in a set of epistolary letters from the 18th and 19th centuries' Uruguay. It is claimed that the CP already at this time encodes situations that are conceptualized within a temporal frame of indeterminacy. All the cases of CP in 66 letters are analyzed according to its contexts – with or without temporal determinants; in colocational environments; any significant relation with surrounding tokens of the Simple Past (SP); and the variation between these two tenses in the same statement. The results show, depending on the case, a strong formulaic feature, indeterminate temporal adverbials or the absence of such adverbials, tokens of SP canonically endorsed to perfect meaning, and the variation between these two tenses as a discursive strategy in order to place the situations either in a generic plane (CP) or in a concretization plane (SP).

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The Compound Past in epistolary correspondence of 18th and 19th centuries' Uruguay
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subject
keywords
Compound past, Generic reference, Present perfect, Temporal adverbials, Token reference, Uruguay
in
Lingüística
volume
34
issue
2
pages
29 pages
publisher
Asociacion de Linguistica y Filologia de la America Latina
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  • scopus:85057125478
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1132-0214
DOI
10.5935/2079-312X.20180016
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Spanish
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07c122da-26ab-4500-9d75-0379ed573518
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http://www.scielo.edu.uy/pdf/ling/v34n2/2079-312X-ling-34-02-51.pdf
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  author       = {{Henderson, Carlos}},
  issn         = {{1132-0214}},
  keywords     = {{Compound past; Generic reference; Present perfect; Temporal adverbials; Token reference; Uruguay}},
  language     = {{spa}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{51--79}},
  publisher    = {{Asociacion de Linguistica y Filologia de la America Latina}},
  series       = {{Lingüística}},
  title        = {{El pretérito Perfecto Compuesto de correspondencias epistolares en el Uruguay de los siglos XVIII Y XIX}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/2079-312X.20180016}},
  doi          = {{10.5935/2079-312X.20180016}},
  volume       = {{34}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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