This corpus-based study examines the different historical stages the Latin synthetic pluperfect underwent in Spanish and Portuguese. It tries to explain parallel and divergent developments of the morpheme -ara leading to opposite results: the strengthening of the form as an exclusively temporal category in Portuguese and its transformation into a fully-fledged past subjunctive in Spanish. In our analysis we will focus on three main aspects: first, the relevance of the underlying logical-conceptual structures as the enabling condition for the expansion of the category into new domains; second, the role of reanalysis as a listener-based strategy in discourse as the decisive mechanism for functional change; and third, the validity of the prototype concept as a device to explain the organisation of grammatical categories from a diachronic perspective. With our case study we address key questions of this book, namely the locus, the motivation and the nature of linguistic change.
2022. The Portuguese Pluperfect: Development and the effect of auxiliary ter generalization. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 21:1
Coan, Márluce, Ester Vieira de Lima & Mariana Freire Sampaio
2022. Entre perfeito e mais-que-perfeito no português falado no Ceará-Brasil: Atuação socioestilística na expressão do passado do passado. Studia Neophilologica 94:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Feldhausen, Ingo & Christina Christ
2021. Die -ra/-se-Alternation beimsubjuntivo imperfectoim europäischen Spanisch: Eine soziolinguistische Korpusstudie. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 137:3 ► pp. 827 ff.
Lopes, Célia Regina dos Santos & Maria Teresa Brocardo
2016. Main Morphosyntactic Changes and Grammaticalization Processes. In The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics, ► pp. 471 ff.
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