Competing motivations in the position of sequential temporal adjuncts
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.36.06Keywords:
antes/después, sequential iconicity, syntactic complexity, pragmatic orderAbstract
In this paper, we examine some semantic, syntactic and pragmatic motivations that may
influence the preferred order of the Spanish temporal adjuncts antes ‘before’ and después
‘after’, when they function as bare adverbs, as adverbial phrases, and as linkage markers in
subordinate clauses. The study of narrative texts reveals that these sequential adjuncts respond
differently to each of the motivations under study