Natalia Jardón Pérez

Master Natalia Jardón Pérez disputerer for PhD.-graden i humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap, fagområde språkvitenskap

«Pluractional Perfects: Anatomy of a Construction in Eonavian Spanish

Publikum kan også følge disputasen via denne lenken:

https://uit.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=5da20e23-13b6-4e36-a0e4-ae4700e25a98 

Prøveforelesningen holdes samme dag kl. 10.15.

Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag av avhandlingen:

This dissertation presents an empirical and theoretical examination of Pluractional Perfects, i.e. analytic participle constructions with the semantics of a Perfect that at the same time incorporate some form of plurality at the level of the event described. This is the first study that aims at unifying through a common set of syntactic and semantic properties a group of constructions that were previously thought of as heterogeneous, and which includes the Portuguese Perfect Tense or the Galician Perfective Periphrases. The empirical weight of the dissertation comes from a particular variety of Northwestern Spanish that I call Eonavian. In Pluractional Perfects we see a convergence of two apparently independent domains: one is the functional domain of the Perfect and its associated formal accounts; the other one is the lexical domain of pluractionality, understood as an Aktionsart-changing device. In this dissertation I argue that such convergence is actually telling us something important about the nature of the Perfect and its relation to event repeatability (or the potential for it). The connection between the two falls naturally from an analysis in which the Perfect builds up derived states. On the syntactic side, I show that Pluractional Perfects are monoclausal structures that nevertheless do not qualify as prototypical auxiliary constructions, and neither do they qualify as light verb constructions in the sense of Butt (2010). This poses a problem to theories of complex predication that assume a clear-cut division between functional and lexical verbs. I argue for a more flexible analysis following Svenonius (2008), where the different verbs share one configurational space, only constrained by the Functional Sequence (after Starke 2001).

Avhandlingen er tilgjengelig i Munin.

Veiledere:

professor Gillian Ramchand, UiT Norges arktiske universitet

professor Antonio Fábregas, UiT Norges arktiske universitet

 

Bedømmelseskomite:

senior lecturer ph.d. Julio Villa-García, University of Manchester (førsteopponent)

professor ph.d. Louise McNally, Pompeu Fabra University (andreopponent)

professor ph.d. Peter Svenonius, institutt for språk og kultur, UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø

 

Disputasleder:

Professor Marit Westergaard, institutt for språk og kultur, UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø.

De som ønsker å opponere ex.auditorio kan sende e-post til leder av disputas: marit.westergaard@uit.no innen kl. 13.00 disputasdagen.

 

 

When: 04.03.22 at 11.15–15.00
Where: SVHUM E-0101
Location / Campus: Digital, Tromsø
Target group: Employees, Students, Guests, Invited
Contact: Kari Torill Guldahl
E-mail: kari.t.guldahl@uit.no
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