Tenho cantado and venho cantando in Brazilian Portuguese
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Lukas Müller
Abstract
We investigate the well studied Pretérito Perfeito Composto (tenho cantado) and the rather under-studied vir + gerúndio periphrasis (venho cantando) in Brazilian Portuguese based on the working hypothesis that they represent functionally highly similar but competing constructions. Aiming at identifying linguistic factors that impact the choice between them, the theoretical and corpus-based analysis discovers a diverging treatment of the underlying eventuality’s potential to be continued after the speech time, as well as a contrary preference concerning morphological number of involved arguments. Within a broader research context, this contributes new evidence concerning the current status of the Pretérito Perfeito Composto in Brazilian Portuguese. While it has been argued that it tends be displaced more and more by the Simple Past, the present study reveals that the vir + gerúndio periphrasis is another emerging competitor.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the anonymous reviewers, that helped me improve the paper significantly, as well as to Albertino Moreira da Silva Júnior and Tiago Augusto Duarte for discussion of examples.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Progressive aspect across temporalities: variation between synthetic and analytic forms in L1 and L2 Spanish
- Accounting for effects of monitored speech: vowel nasalization, nasal consonant weakening and /s/ production in Spanish
- Variation, contact, and change in Boston Spanish: how social meaning shapes stylistic practice and bilingual optimization
- First things third? The extension of canonically third-person singular inflections to first-person singular subjects in adult heritage Spanish
- Anti-homophony and rhizotony in the Spanish preterite
- Tenho cantado and venho cantando in Brazilian Portuguese
- Consequences of prosodic variation for spatiotemporal organization in Spanish stop-lateral clusters
- Gender agreement among Russian learners of Spanish in an instructed versus naturalistic learning environment
