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SOTO, Guillermo  y  HASLER, Felipe. The mapudungun -fu morpheme: the grammatical coding of anti-perfect. Alpha [online]. 2015, n.40, pp.95-112. ISSN 0718-2201.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-22012015000100008.

The perfect aspect is a retrospective aspect that encodes the current relevance of a previous event. In this work, we propose a semantic and grammatical category labeled as antiperfect that, in contrast to the perfect aspect, encodes the non-validity of a previous eventuality in speech time. Given that, as the perfect aspect, the antiperfect is subject to the current relevance of a previous situation, we propose that this is a second type of retrospective aspect. After reviewing the descriptions of perfect by Comrie (1976), Dik (1997) and  Nishiyama & Koenig (2010), and the description of discontinuous past by Plungian & van der Auwera (2006), we analyze how the antiperfect  is grammatically encoded in Mapudungun by means of the morpheme -fu. We focus the analysis of this category on its semantic-pragmatic description, its relation to aktionsart, and the role of context in its interpretation.

Palabras clave : Antiperfect; Mapudungun; Verbal aspect; Context.

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