Martín Fuchs and Prof. Piñango give a talk at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL)
May 6, 2019
PhD candidate Martín Fuchs presented joint work with Prof. María Mercedes Piñango at the 49th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), at the University of Georgia, in Athens, GA. Their talk, titled “Grounding grammaticalization paths in contextual constraints: The categoricalization-to-generalization process in three varieties of Spanish”, analyzes the contextual conditions that play a role in the extension of the Present Progressive marker to the habitual reading of the Imperfective in Castilian, Rioplatense, and Mexican Altiplano Spanish. Click here to read the talk’s abstract.