Chapter 6
The PPCSP’s referential drift
Article outline
- 6.1The PPCSP between quantification and reference
- “Gradual relaxation of the degree of recentness”
- Temporal indeterminacy
- Temporal semantics vs. discourse functions
- Perspectival clash
- 6.2The attached Imperfecto as a test case for the
PPCSP’s cataphoric potential
- Contextual dependency and anaphoricity
- Perspective
- Tempus relief
- 6.3Prominence and the PPCSP
- 6.3.1General remarks on prominence in discourse
- 6.3.2Prominent event domain vs. prominent post-state domain
- Singling out an element out of a set of equals
- The prominent event domain as a structural attractor licensing
discursive operations
- 6.4Experiment: Acceptability judgements of PPCSP +
Imperfecto
- 6.4.1Methodology
- Participants
- Procedure
- Design and materials
- The tense condition
- The remoteness condition
- The attached Imperfecto
- Hypotheses and expectations
- Diatopic variation
- 6.4.2Statistical analysis and results
- Participants included in the analysis
- Overview
- Significant main effect of tense (H1)
- Significant interactional effect of PPC and remoteness
(H2)
- No significant effect for coarse-grained diatopic background as a
fixed effect
- 6.4.3Discussion
- General observations
- Significant main effect of tense (H1)
- Significant effect of remoteness in the PPCSP
condition (H2)
- Further exploration: Fine-grained diatopic background of the
participants
- Further exploration: innovative vs. conservative speakers?
- 6.5Conclusion
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Notes