La significación del tiempo en las lenguas

Luis Fernando Lara

Abstract


Among the main questions in the study of language acquisition and language description appears the ways to signify temporality. With a semantic and pragmatic approach; this article essays to fix the distinction between tense and verbal aspect; in order to facilitate the understanding of many languages in the world in which temporality is not signified with tenses; and on the contrary; verbal aspect takes the main role in the expression of processes temporality.

Keywords


tense; aspect; temporality; Spanish; Yucatec Maya

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/enallt.01852647p.2011.53.499

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