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The perfect aspect is a retrospective aspect that encodes the current relevance of a previous event. In this work, we propose a semantic and grammatical category labeled as antiperfect that, in contrast to the perfect aspect, encodes the non-validity of a previous eventuality in speech time. Given that, as the perfect aspect, the antiperfect is subject to the current relevance of a previous situation, we propose that this is a second type of retrospective aspect. After reviewing the descriptions of perfect by Comrie (1976), Dik (1997) and Nishiyama & Koenig (2010), and the description of discontinuous past by Plungian & van der Auwera (2006), we analyze how the antiperfect is grammatically encoded in Mapudungun by means of the morpheme-fu. We focus the analysis of this category on its semantic-pragmatic description, its relation to aktionsart, and the role of context in its interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present study addresses a novel proposal on the categorization and description of the modal features in estar por + infinitive and estar para + infinitive, both of which have been analyzed as aspect perisphrastic constructions in the near past. This characterization embraces their prototypical meanings along with the epistemic and/or facultative required by some meanings expressed by modality. Notwithstanding, the qualitative analysis of these has focused on the (eventually asystematic) bringing together of notions such as intentionality, inchoateness, capability, etc. Henee, the methodology combines quantitative analyses with more quality-oriented diachronic and synchronic analyses. As a result, a corpus was elaborated, which was formed by 2443 samples extracted from CORDE, CREA, in RAE. This made it possible to validate and confirm [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the values and behaviours of verbal periphrases in the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cronica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold). The first part analyses the main syntactic-semantic characteristics of these periphrastic constructions according to their aspectual, temporal and contextual values. The second part is devoted to the presentation of the structure of the novel, its location in time and space and the narrators and protagonists. The third part is an analysis of verbal periphrases in the novel by Garcia Marquez which aims at demonstrating the important role of these periphrastic structures in the configuration of the novel. The first sentence contains the verbal periphrasis iban a matar which is significant for the further development of events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article analyses the status of the Aspect and Aktionsart categories, as well as the relationship between them. The analysis was based on a comparison between the Romance and North Slavonic languages, with particular emphasis on Polish and Spanish. From the typological point of view the first one can be classified as an aspect + cases type and the second one belongs to the article + tense languages. Therefore it analyses some differences between Spanish tenses pretérito and copretérito, as well as perfective and imperfective Aspect in Polish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is proposed that some grammatical phenomena related to aspectuality cannot be fully analyzed when the analysis is restricted to the sentence grammar. Though a complementary pragmatic approach can solve some of these problems, it seems to be necessary to take into account, from the beginning, the cognitive, situational, and textual contexts to determine the aspectual structure of the state of affairs evoked by the sentence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]