The Evolution of Spanish Past Forms - 9780367322472

Taylor & Francis

The Evolution of Spanish Past FormsAuthor(s): Gibran Delgado-Daz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367322472, 978-0367322472\nSynopsis\nThe Evolution of Spanish Past Forms examines how Spanish past forms have changed diachronically. \n\nWith examples from Medieval Spanish, Golden Age Spanish, and Modern Spanish literary works, this book demonstrates how language is dynamic and susceptible to change. The past forms considered here include the preterit, the imperfect, the imperfect progressive with estar (temporal to be), the present perfect, the imperfect progressive with other auxiliary verbs, the preterit progressive with estar, and the preterit progressive with other auxiliary verbs. \n\nThis book will be of interest to scholars and graduate students investigating tense and aspect phenomena in Spanish and other languages, grammaticalization processes, and language variation and change.