Nuria Alturo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nuria Alturo plays a role.
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The aim of this article is to show the relationship between the general goals of pragmatics and discourse analysis research in modern linguistics and the particular goals of Catalan pragmatics and discourse analysis research. It is assumed that pragmatics and discourse analysis can be… read more
Alturo, Nuria 2004
Catalan Adpositions of ‘Movement’ as Aspectual Particles: Cap (a) and Fins (a) Adpositions of Movement, Cuyckens, Hubert, Walter De Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), pp. 197–223 | Article
This paper describes the aspectual uses of two Catalan prepositions: cap (a) ‘toward, by’ and fins (a) ‘up to, as far as’. Against some accounts of these prepositions in the literature, I claim that their basic meaning is not associated with motion, but with non-dynamic notions such as… read more