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Temporal, aspectual, and semantic constraints on Spanish entonces
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Magdalena Romera
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December 3, 2009
Abstract
This article presents an in-depth analysis of entonces as a temporal adverb in Spanish. The deictic and/or anaphoric nature of this expression is discussed, and it is shown that entonces always acts as an anaphoric element that relates events in a temporal way. In its semantic specification entonces includes particular instructions on the temporal relation it may establish between events. It only obtains a temporal reading when the event it accompanies is understood to occur inside a temporal frame set by these instructions. Further temporal, aspectual and lexical constraints must be satisfied for this temporal relation to take place.
Received: 2003-04-08
Revised: 2006-12-20
Published Online: 2009-12-03
Published in Print: 2009-November
© 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin
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