The Paradigm of the Future Tense in Spanish — Three Different Views on the Distribution of the Synthetic and the Analytic Future in Spanish Cover Image

Paradigma budoucího času ve španělštině — tři různé pohledy na problematiku distribuce budoucího času jednoduchého a opisného ve španělštině
The Paradigm of the Future Tense in Spanish — Three Different Views on the Distribution of the Synthetic and the Analytic Future in Spanish

Author(s): Iva Novotná
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: Spanish; analytic future; synthetic future; grammaticalization; pragmatic meaning; situational meaning;

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the synthetic future (FS: “hablaré”) and the analytic future (FA: “voy a hablar”). It presents three perspectives on the use and the distribution of these two forms based on existing studies. The first perspective is represented by studies which focus on linguistic factors and explain the rise in frequency of the analytic future as a result of the grammaticalization of ir a + infinitive. The second perspective assumes that the FS and the FA are used in different semantic-pragmatic contexts and the third perspective points to different situational meanings of the FA and the FS.

  • Issue Year: 98/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 104-109
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Czech