Grammatization phases in the Spanish verbal system. The treatment of the tense pretérito anterior in grammars and manuals of SFL
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The aim of this article is the study of the grammatization process of the preterite perfect (form hube cantado) considering three levels of scientific-didactic treatment of the analyzed unit: (1) linguistic research, (2) SFL grammars and (3) SFL manuals. Consequently, we work on a corpus of 55 texts (30 grammars and 25 manuals) of levels B2-C1. The main conclusion is that the values and functionality of the past tense experience a gradual process of discontinuous degrammatization in grammars according to linguistic theory, and that the manualization of information supposes the slow demise of the form in the Spanish verbal system.
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