Morphological Mismatch and Temporal Reference in Interaction with Lexical Semantics in Spanish

• Matthew L. Juge ^[1]
  1. [1] Texas State University

     Texas State University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Romance philology, ISSN 0035-8002, Vol. 64, Nº. 2, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Fall - Special issue In memoriam: Ray Harris-Northall (1953-2009)), págs. 209-221
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Certain Spanish verbs show changes in meaning from their basic definitions in the Preterit Indicative. The examples below, taken from a typical Spanish language textbook (Dominic and Reynolds 2007:11) and comparing the Imperfect Indicative with the Preterit Indicative, are representative of this class of verbs, for wich I propose the term "aspectucally polysemous stative verbs". In this article I show how tense, aspect, and mood interact with lexical, semantics to produce these different meanings and how their distribution fits into cros-linguistic patterns of morphological mismatch