Aspect and the categorization of states : the case of ser and estar in Spanish / David Brian Roby.
In this work, the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values ["Perfective], which are the same ones overtly expressed by the preterite and imperfect past tense forms in Spanish. It can therefore be shown th...
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John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2009.
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 114. |
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