The Spanish and the Portuguese present perfect in discourse / Lukas Müller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910985677703321
• Autore: Müller Lukas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023; ©2023
• ISBN: 9789027254481; 9789027213143
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Collana: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ; vol. 279
• Disciplina: 465/.62
• Soggetti: Spanish language - Tense; Portuguese language - Tense; Spanish language - Aspect; Portuguese language - Aspect; Spanish language - Discourse analysis; Portuguese language - Discourse analysis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- The Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect in Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph page -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 A cross-linguistic perspective on the PPCpt and the PPCsp -- PPCpt and PPCsp as quantificational tense forms -- 1.2 The discursive approach -- The truth-conditional meaning component of tense forms -- The perspectival structure in discourse -- The event-referential structure in discourse -- 1.3 Goals of the study -- Chapter 2. Fundamentals -- 2.1 Tense -- 2.1.1 The ingredients of tense -- Speech time (ts) -- Event time (te) -- Location time (tloc) -- Perspective time (tp) -- Referencetime (tr) -- Integrating the ingredients -- 2.1.2 Quantificational vs. referential tense -- Quantificational tense -- Referential Tense -- A note on definiteness -- Integrating the two accounts -- 2.2 Aspect -- 2.2.1 Situation aspect -- 2.2.2 Viewpoint aspect -- 2.3 Adverbials -- 2.4 Tense and aspect in discourse -- 2.4.1 ; The macro-structure: Modes of discourse -- Narrative / Narration -- Report -- Description -- Information -- Argument -- 2.4.2 The micro-structure: Syntagmatic relations -- Temporal Anaphora -- Quantification and reference in discourse: Actualization effects -- 2.5 The Present Perfect as a cross-linguistic category -- 2.5.1 Diachrony and grammaticalization -- Stage I -- Stage II -- Stage III -- Stage IV -- Overview -- 2.5.2 Synchrony -- Readings -- Curent relevance -- The Present Perfect: A quantificational tense form -- The PP puzzle -- Adverbial modification -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3. The Portuguese Pretérito Perfeito Composto -- 3.1 General meaning and meaning effects -- Ilari's (2001) account -- The Extended-Now (XN) approach to the PPCpt.; The functional split of the PPCpt and the Simple Past -- Continuation of te after ts: Implication or implicature? -- 3.2 A note on diatopic variation -- 3.3 Quantificational readings -- 3.3.1 Ipex readings -- Ipex as a combination of indefiniteness and pluractionality -- Iterative vs. gradual readings -- 3.3.2 Universal reading -- 3.3.3 Characterizing readings -- Characterizing readings temporally restricted to the present time-sphere -- 3.3.4 Overview -- A diachronic note: The PPCpt's evolution as a "regular idiosyncrasy"? -- 3.4 Adverbials -- 3.5 Discourse -- 3.5.1 PPCpt + PPCpt -- 3.5.2 PPCpt + Pretérito Perfeito Simples -- Contrasting episodicity and genericity -- Perspectival bridging -- 3.5.3 PPCpt + Present Tense -- Contrast of characterizing PPCpt vs. generic Present Tense -- PPCpt providing evidence for generic Present Tense -- 3.5.4 The macro-structure of discourse -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4. The Spanish Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto -- 4.1 General meaning and meaning effects -- The quantificational readings -- Current Relevance (CR) -- 4.2 A note on diatopic variation -- 4.3 Quantificational readings -- 4.3.1 Experiential reading -- A terminological note on experiential readings as a hyponym of the existential readings -- 4.3.2 Resultative reading -- The direct resultant state -- Delimiting PPCsp-res from the tener + participle -- 4.3.3 Hot news reading -- 4.3.4 Universal reading -- Competition with Present Tense -- Current Relevance or direct resultant state? -- 4.3.5 Overview -- 4.4 Is there a referential reading? -- The semantics of the potential referential PPCsp-ref -- Evidence for the PPCsp-ref -- Arguments supporting a purely quantificational account -- The quantificational/referential ambiguity as a transitional context? -- 4.5 Adverbials -- 4.6 Discourse -- Previous work -- 4.6.1 PPCsp + PPCsp -- 4.6.2 PPCsp + Indefinido.; Actualization Focus -- Perspectival shift -- Perspectival bridging -- 4.6.3 PPCsp + Pluscuamperfecto/Imperfecto -- Quantificational PPCsp clashing with Pluscuamperfecto/Imperfecto -- Referential PPCsp anchoring Imperfecto/Pluscuamperfecto? -- The cataphoric potential as evidence for the PPCsp-ref? -- 4.6.4 The macro-structure of discourse -- 4.7 Conclusion -- The quantificational PPCsp -- The referential PPCsp and the referential drift -- Chapter 5. Corpus study -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Composition of the corpus -- The Spanish corpus -- The Portuguese corpus -- 5.1.2 Analysis of the data -- 5.1.3 Overall frequencies -- 5.2 Adverbials -- 5.2.1 Expectations -- 5.2.2 Portuguese -- 5.2.3 Spanish -- Are there positional adverbials in the Spanish data? -- 5.2.4 Discussion -- 5.3 The micro-structure of discourse -- 5.3.1 Expectations -- Portuguese -- Spanish -- 5.3.2 Portuguese -- 5.3.2.1 Characterizing PPCPT -- 5.3.2.2 Episodic PPCPT readings -- 5.3.3 Spanish -- 5.3.3.1 Quantificational PPCSP -- 5.3.3.2 Referential PPCSP -- 5.3.4 Discussion -- Portuguese -- Similarities between the PPCPT's and PPCSP's discourse functions -- Spanish -- The PPC between truth conditions and discourse: A case for use conditions? ; -- 5.4 Conclusion -- PPCPT escaping from stage II and PPCSP approaching stage IV? -- Chapter 6. The PPCSP's referential drift -- 6.1 The PPCSP between quantification and reference -- "Gradual relaxation of the degree of recentness" -- Temporal indeterminacy -- Temporal semantics vs. discourse functions -- Perspectival clash -- 6.2 The attached Imperfecto as a test case for the PPCSP's cataphoric potential -- Contextual dependency and anaphoricity -- Perspective -- Tempus relief -- 6.3 Prominence and the PPCSP -- 6.3.1 General remarks on prominence in discourse -- 6.3.2 Prominent event domain vs. prominent post state domain.; Singling out an element out of a set of equals -- The prominent event domain as a structural attractor licensing discursive operations -- 6.4 Experiment: Acceptability judgements of PPCSP + Imperfecto -- 6.4.1 Methodology -- Participants -- Procedure -- Design and materials -- The tense condition -- The remoteness condition -- The attached Imperfecto -- Hypotheses and expectations -- Diatopic variation -- 6.4.2 Statistical analysis and results -- Participants included in the analysis -- Overview -- Significant main effect of tense (H1) -- Significant interactional effect of PPC and remoteness (H2) -- No significant effect for coarse-grained diatopic background as a fixed effect -- 6.4.3 Discussion -- General observations -- Significant main effect of tense (H1) -- Significant effect of remoteness in the PPCSP condition (H2) -- Further exploration: Fine-grained diatopic background of the participants -- Further exploration: Innovative vs. conservative speakers? -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Conclusions -- 7.1 PPCPT and PPCSP as quantificational tense forms -- 7.2 Similarities and differences on the level of discourse -- 7.3 Outlook -- Bibliography -- List of items included in the experiment -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This monograph presents a theoretical and empirical study of the Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect (PP).