Preterit

The paper is focused on the verbs with the old nasal present stems that have both aoristic forms and nasal imperfects attested in Homer. All contexts were examined in terms of lexical and grammatical semantics, pragmatical features and distribution of usages. The study investigates to what extent the nasal imperfects compete with the corresponding aorists and outlines the patterns of correlation between the preterits. The Himeric data is compared to the attestations in the works of Herodotus, Plato and Apollonius of Rhodes. It is observed that the competition between the forms tends to lower over time and the verbal paradigm is leveled by employing only one type of telic preterite.

Ј. Бојовић, Доживљени глаголски облици у приповеци "Роб незаробљени" Григорија Божовића, у: Поетика Григорија Божовића : тематски зборник од водећег националног значаја, Косовска Митровица : Филозофски факултет Универзитета у Приштини, Ниш : Филозофски факултет Универзитета у Нишу, Зубин Поток : Културни центар "Стари Колашин", 2016, 457-464.

This chapter examines Spanish past aspectual forms with the goal of challenging the formfunction symmetry assumption as well as the dichotomous characterization of past aspectual variation in Spanish. The results indicate that multiple forms can express similar aspectual function (i.e., they share neutralized contexts). Furthermore, the results suggest that the progressive aspectual domain presents the highest degree of variation since the preterit, imperfect, imperfect progressive, preterit progressive, simple present, and present progressive can be used to express a progressive aspectual function. Consequently, this study supports the notion that language variation is full of form-function asymmetries and it includes a wide range of forms and constructions that fall outside dichotomous pairs.

This investigation examines the use of the pretérito and imperfecto forms in Puerto Rican and Buenos Aires Spanish. These dialects were chosen because the pretérito can express a perfect event in Buenos Aires Spanish while this use has not been documented in Puerto Rican Spanish. This may cause differences in the use of these forms. The main goal of this investigation was to contrast the linguistic predictors in both dialects in order to determine if there are dialectal differences and if they are due to different grammaticalization pathways. The results indicate that there are some differences between the Spanish spoken by Puerto Ricans and that of the Argentines of Buenos Aires. Among the results, it was found that these two dialects had different predictors for the pretérito and imperfecto. These results show preliminary evidence that indicates that these dialects follow different grammaticalization paths.

This investigation examines the use of the pretérito and imperfecto forms in Puerto Rican and Buenos Aires Spanish. These dialects were chosen because the pretérito can express a perfect event in Buenos Aires Spanish while this use has not been documented in Puerto Rican Spanish. This may cause differences in the use of these forms. The main goal of this investigation was to contrast the linguistic predictors in both dialects in order to determine if there are dialectal differences and if they are due to different grammaticalization pathways. The results indicate that there are some differences between the Spanish spoken by Puerto Ricans and that of the Argentines of Buenos Aires. Among the results, it was found that these two dialects had different predictors for the pretérito and imperfecto. These results show preliminary evidence that indicates that these dialects follow different grammaticalization paths.

a Department of Language and Literature studies, university college of southeast norway, Drammen, norway; b MultiLing center for Multilingualism in society across the Lifespan, Department of Linguistics and scandinavian studies, university of Oslo, norway ABSTRACT