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THE PRESENT PERFECT IN SPANISH: A STUDY ON SEMANTIC VARIATION
by
Alicia Martini Ocampo
_________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(SPANISH)
December 2008
Copyright 2008 Alicia Martini Ocampo
Object Description
| Title | The present perfect in Spanish: a study on semantic variation |
| Author | Ocampo, Alicia Martini |
| Author email | ocamp001@umn.edu; focampo@umn.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Spanish |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 1995-07-03 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-12-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Silva-Corvalán, Carmen |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Saltarelli, Mario Lazar, Moshe |
| Abstract | The present study deals with the meaning and use of the Present Perfect (PP) in Spanish. This verbal form is analyzed in relation to the Preterite from two different perspectives, diachronic and synchronic.; The process of change undergone by the PP has been reviewed in order to better understand its nature. Along the history of the language, the Spanish PP went through three different stages experiencing meaning changes. I propose three schemas which represent how the meaning units are related in each stage. The use of the form in different aspectual and temporal contexts, along with inferential work, made possible the reshaping of the category. When the PP is used in combination with non-specific situations, it indicates 'existence of type of situation'; instead, with specific situations it marks temporal reference.; On the other hand, the synchronic analysis involved the comparison of the use and meaning of the PP category across two varieties of Spanish: Rioplatense (RP) and Castilian spoken in Madrid (CM). While RP has a PP in its second stage of development (an aspectual marker of retrospection), CM has gone one-step further. The third-stage PP (a temporal marker of recent past) -- which is the norm in Modern CM in contexts of recentness -- does not exist in RP. The retrospective PP was the norm in CM during the XV Century.; RP and Castilian -- since the XV Century -- share the use of the PP in the pragmatic function of 'contrary to expectation'. I hypothesize that a reanalysis of the form is highly possible when this function occurs in contexts of pragmatic ambiguity. Consequently, the retrospective PP may have turned into the temporal PP through this path. A detailed description of what can be considered a pragmatic ambiguous context for the PP is given in Chapter 5.; In addition to the study of the PP category, there is a Chapter which deals with the relationship between situations and time. I argue that aspect is a category not fully understood, and that aspectual phenomena should include the notions of linear and cyclic time. |
| Keyword | semantics; pragmatics; Spanish; aspect; tense; variation; corpus study; discourse; semantic change; perfect; present perfect |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1869 |
| Rights | Ocampo, Alicia Martini |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Ocampo-2560 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Ocampo-2560.pdf |
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| Full text | THE PRESENT PERFECT IN SPANISH: A STUDY ON SEMANTIC VARIATION by Alicia Martini Ocampo _________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (SPANISH) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Alicia Martini Ocampo |
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