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Chapter 6. Pluractional perfects in Eonavian Spanish

  • Natalia Jardón
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Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias
This chapter is in the book Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias

Abstract

This chapter deals with two periphrastic constructions that consist of a perfect participle and an inflected form of the verb tener ‘have’ or llevar ‘carry’ in Eonavian Spanish (EoS), which are used to convey perfect meanings and they require a form of iteration or plurality on the event described. These constructions are monoclausal and behave like fully grammaticalized auxiliary constructions, but they are restricted in unexpected ways. The description is complemented by a cross-linguistic comparison of superficially similar constructions in neighbouring Romance varieties. The final part of the chapter considers the extent to which similar constructions in the Galician dialect might explain the properties observed in EoS, concluding that they are independent systems.

Abstract

This chapter deals with two periphrastic constructions that consist of a perfect participle and an inflected form of the verb tener ‘have’ or llevar ‘carry’ in Eonavian Spanish (EoS), which are used to convey perfect meanings and they require a form of iteration or plurality on the event described. These constructions are monoclausal and behave like fully grammaticalized auxiliary constructions, but they are restricted in unexpected ways. The description is complemented by a cross-linguistic comparison of superficially similar constructions in neighbouring Romance varieties. The final part of the chapter considers the extent to which similar constructions in the Galician dialect might explain the properties observed in EoS, concluding that they are independent systems.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. List of contributors vii
  4. List of reviewers ix
  5. Chapter 1. Northern soul 1
  6. Chapter 2. Asturian and Asturian Spanish at the syntax-phonology interface 15
  7. Chapter 3. Semantic anchoring 45
  8. Chapter 4. Are Asturian clitics distinctly distinct? 73
  9. Chapter 5. ¿Qué che femos con el che? 93
  10. Chapter 6. Pluractional perfects in Eonavian Spanish 109
  11. Chapter 7. Middle formation and inalienability in Asturian 131
  12. Chapter 8. Negation in Asturian 151
  13. Chapter 9. Intonational form and speaker belief in Mieres Asturian polar questions 173
  14. Chapter 10. Minority language bilingualism and its role in L3 lexical acquisition 195
  15. Index 217
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.36.06jar

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. List of contributors vii
  4. List of reviewers ix
  5. Chapter 1. Northern soul 1
  6. Chapter 2. Asturian and Asturian Spanish at the syntax-phonology interface 15
  7. Chapter 3. Semantic anchoring 45
  8. Chapter 4. Are Asturian clitics distinctly distinct? 73
  9. Chapter 5. ¿Qué che femos con el che? 93
  10. Chapter 6. Pluractional perfects in Eonavian Spanish 109
  11. Chapter 7. Middle formation and inalienability in Asturian 131
  12. Chapter 8. Negation in Asturian 151
  13. Chapter 9. Intonational form and speaker belief in Mieres Asturian polar questions 173
  14. Chapter 10. Minority language bilingualism and its role in L3 lexical acquisition 195
  15. Index 217
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