Temporal Anaphora with Spanish "Imperfecto"

Autor/in	Leonetti, Manuel
Titel	Temporal Anaphora with Spanish "Imperfecto"
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47 (2018) 2, S.391-409 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Leonetti, Manuel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-017-9539-2
Schlagwörter	Grammar; Language Usage; Spanish; Sentence Structure; Romance Languages; Morphemes; Phrase Structure; Semantics; Pragmatics; Language Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grammatik; Sprachgebrauch; Spanisch; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Romanische Sprache; Morphem; Phrasenstruktur; Semantik; Pragmalinguistik; Sprachforschung
Abstract	This paper argues against the assumption that Spanish--and more generally Romance--imperfective past (IMP) is an intrinsically anaphoric tense. It is a widely accepted view that IMP requires a temporal discourse antecedent to be licensed. My aim is to show that such requirement is not actually in force when IMP combines with a stative/atelic predicate. In fact, with stative/atelic predicates, IMP (a) is acceptable in isolated sentences with no suitable antecedent available, (b) is able to access implicit assumptions that are not available with telic predicates--but do not behave as real antecedents, and (c) does not trigger certain perspectivisation effects that depend on the existence of a temporal antecedent. As a result, an asymmetry arises between continuous and habitual interpretations of IMP, which do not require retrieving a temporal antecedent, and progressive and narrative interpretations, which do need an accessible antecedent. Thus, the relevance of a discourse antecedent varies according to the lexical aspect of the predicate and the corresponding interpretations, and the alleged anaphoric nature of IMP cannot be a feature of its semantics: it is rather pragmatically derived from imperfectivity. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01