Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteno Spanish and Beyond: A Critical Perspective on Cognitive Grammaticalization Theory

About the Author Guro Nore Fløgstad, Ph.D. (2015, University of Oslo) is a researcher at The Center for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan (MultiLing) at The University of Oslo. She has published both academically and for the general public, and conducts research on directionality and morphosyntactic change, with focus on Romance and Romani. Product Description In this book, Guro Nore Fløgstad shows how the Preterit category has expanded in Porteño Spanish, and sheds new light on the outcome of the competition between Perfects and Preterits in Romance, and beyond.