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Changes in Meaning and Function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on SpanishEdited by Jorge Fernández Jaén and Herminia Provencio Garrigós
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 25] 2020
► pp. 159–172
Edited by Jorge Fernández Jaén and Herminia Provencio Garrigós
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 25] 2020
► pp. 159–172
The future tense in Spanish
An enactive approach
Linguistic theories emphasize either the inner point of
view that explains linguistic phenomena starting from universal structures
of the human mind, or the outer point of view that relies on the structure
of communication. Enaction is a cognitive approach that locates halfway
between formal and functional linguistics. This paper shows how the
principles of perceptual interchange can help to explain the evolution and
the main uses of the Spanish future tense. The current paradigm consists of
four forms, voy a amar, amaré, amaría, amare, respectively
temporal, modal, past, and rhetoric. Since none of them proceeds from the
classic Latin future amabo, it is concluded that they
originate in the adjustment of neural networks to the requirements of
communication.
Keywords: enaction, future tense, cortical words, limbic paradigms, embodied mind
Article outline
- Concluding remarks
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