2011
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Sandrine Deloor, « Los valores temporales y no temporales del adverbio ya », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10670/1.uzfppt
This paper is based on the hypothesis that ya is an aspectual adverb which establishes a relation between two intervals: an asserted interval and a presupposed one. In an affirmative sentence, the presupposed interval is temporally posterior to the asserted interval. For example, (1) En 1999, Juan ya era rico indicates that the situation [Juan be rich] was true not only after 1999 (presupposed content) but also in 1999 (asserted content). While this hypothesis enables one to explain the semantic interpretation of ya in many affirmative sentences, it needs to be reformulated if non-temporal uses are to be accounted for. For example the sentence (2) Ventimiglia ya es Italia does not indicate that the situation [Ventimiglia be in Italy] will be true in the future and is true now. What (2) expresses is that Ventimiglia, despite being located in the " spatial anteriority " of the majority of Italian cities, also belongs to Italy. In order to explain such non-temporal uses of the adverb ya, we propose a model based on the notion of ordered sets. It is posited that the adverb ya establishes a relation between an asserted element and a presupposed set of posterior elements. What ya indicates is that the asserted element, though it is anterior to the presupposed elements, belongs to the same set.