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Peer reviewedEscobar, Anna Maria – Hispania, 1997
Argues that where Spanish is in contact with Quechua, the Spanish present perfect, preterite, and pluperfect are in contrast on the basis of a spatio-temporal parameter derived from the notion of present relevance. These innovative uses come from interaction between semantic systems of Quechua and Spanish and are consistent with universals of the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Usage
