It is well known that Spanish futurizing morphology is frequently used not to express futurity, but instead to formulate a hypothesis, i.e. express epistemic modality. Although this is possible with both synthetic or periphrastic future marking, the synthetic future tense is more likely to… read more
This study seeks to gain a better insight into the origin and expansion of the construction <va a ser que sí/no
> (lit. goes to be that yes/no) in Peninsular Spanish. We argue that this construction derives from the use of the periphrastic future construction <ir a ‘go to’ + inf> in a… read more
In this introduction, we set out the central themes of the special issue. It concentrates on imperfect function-form mappings, and discusses several cases in which specific perspectival meanings are not fully predictable on the basis of a perspectivizing grammatical construction alone. We… read more
This paper presents the results of an online questionnaire carried out among 130 respondents from Santiago de Chile, Chile, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and contrasts them with the results from a previous corpus data analysis. That study demonstrated formal and functional differentiation between… read more