On the Quotative Readings of Spanish Imperfecto
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The fact that tenses can be exploited by speakers as a way to attribute (a part of) an utterance to others is well known —Chafe and Nichols (eds.) (1986); Dendale and Tasmowski (eds.) (2001); Squartini (2001)—, although it has not received much attention in Spanish grammars. In this paper we will focus on what we will call quotative readings of the Spanish Imperfecto de indicativo (hereinafter, IMPF), such as the ones in (1)-(2):
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تاریخ انتشار 2003