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Temporal prepositions and intervals in Spanish. Variation in the grammar of "hasta" and "desde"

In many varieties of American Spanish, the temporal preposition hasta ’until’ is able to modify telic predicates in the absence of negation. Previous analyses argue for either a hidden negation or a special punctual reading of this preposition. We show that these analyses make a number of wrong predictions, and should be abandoned. Our account hinges on the idea that hasta licenses a temporal phase previous to the telic predicate, somehow similar to the one that in PP complements (in one hour) create in English and many other languages in similar structures. We also show that desde (‘since’) is able to behave in a parallel way in some varieties of American Spanish, thus licensing intervals subsequent to temporal points. Several arguments are presented favoring compositional analyses of these (and some other) temporal prepositions subject to Aktionsart restrictions, as opposed to approaches which introduce multiplication of senses

Isogloss, vol 1, núm. 1 (2015)

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Universitat de Girona

Autor: Bosque, Ignacio
Bravo, Ana
Data: 2015
Resum: In many varieties of American Spanish, the temporal preposition hasta ’until’ is able to modify telic predicates in the absence of negation. Previous analyses argue for either a hidden negation or a special punctual reading of this preposition. We show that these analyses make a number of wrong predictions, and should be abandoned. Our account hinges on the idea that hasta licenses a temporal phase previous to the telic predicate, somehow similar to the one that in PP complements (in one hour) create in English and many other languages in similar structures. We also show that desde (‘since’) is able to behave in a parallel way in some varieties of American Spanish, thus licensing intervals subsequent to temporal points. Several arguments are presented favoring compositional analyses of these (and some other) temporal prepositions subject to Aktionsart restrictions, as opposed to approaches which introduce multiplication of senses
Format: application/pdf
ISSN: 2385-4138
Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/10129
Llenguatge: eng
Editor: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Universitat de Girona
És part de: Isogloss, vol 1, núm. 1 (2015)
Drets: Attribution 3.0 Spain
URI Drets: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Matèria: Lingüística comparada
Comparative linguistics
Llenguatge i llengües -- Variació
Language and languages -- Variation
Castellà -- Americanismes
Spanish language -- Prepositions
Castellà -- Preposicions
Títol: Temporal prepositions and intervals in Spanish. Variation in the grammar of "hasta" and "desde"
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Repositori: DUGiDocs

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