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la generación de tiempo y aspecto en inglés y español

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Resultados <strong>de</strong>l análisis3.8. Los usos <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> perífrasis inglesa used toEsta construcción <strong>de</strong>l inglés ti<strong>en</strong>e una frecu<strong>en</strong>cia <strong>de</strong> aparición muy inferior al <strong>de</strong> todas <strong>la</strong>sformas vistas hasta ahora. De hecho, según los datos obt<strong>en</strong>idos <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong>s muestras, sería necesarioun corpus <strong>de</strong> alre<strong>de</strong>dor <strong>de</strong> 1,8 millones <strong>de</strong> pa<strong>la</strong>bras para obt<strong>en</strong>er 500 ejemplos. Por estarazón, y como ya anticipé <strong>en</strong> <strong>la</strong> sección 1.4.1., <strong>en</strong> este caso he reunido únicam<strong>en</strong>te 100 ejemplospara el exam<strong>en</strong>.Para obt<strong>en</strong>er 100 ejemplos <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> construcción used to han sido necesarias 355.872 pa<strong>la</strong>bras.Como era <strong>de</strong> esperar por <strong>la</strong> baja frecu<strong>en</strong>cia <strong>de</strong> uso, esta perífrasis se hal<strong>la</strong> fuertem<strong>en</strong>teespecializada, ya que únicam<strong>en</strong>te sirve para referirse a propieda<strong>de</strong>s <strong>de</strong> mundos pasados, loque he l<strong>la</strong>mado <strong>en</strong> capítulos anteriores <strong>de</strong> esta tesis ‘pasado estructural’. Algunos ejemplos <strong>de</strong>esta construcción hal<strong>la</strong>dos <strong>en</strong> <strong>la</strong>s muestras son:(1) But it is universally accepted outsi<strong>de</strong> the ruling party that there is no question of a return to thegol<strong>de</strong>n days of 1980 and earlier elections, wh<strong>en</strong> Congress used to scoop up four-fifths of theseats.(2) Regional pri<strong>de</strong>, the growth of <strong>la</strong>nguage and caste-based movem<strong>en</strong>ts, suspicion of the Hindispeakingnorth, have ero<strong>de</strong>d the support which national parties used to <strong>en</strong>joy.(3)So that you don’t -you don’t really need -No. -to leave spaces -used to leave spaces !(4) These are not as hot as they usually are are they? -No. -I thought they were right mild. -I meanyou used to be able to go ah!(5)(6)(7)(8)I used to think: These are the <strong>de</strong>epest feelings I shall ever experi<strong>en</strong>ce; this is the closest weshall ever approach.I work in a newspaper that used to be male dominated and now I would say three quarters ofthe wo , three quarters of the people on the news <strong>de</strong>sk are now wom<strong>en</strong>.But if you do speak to them, perhaps you could get them affiliated again, cos they used to bedidn’t they in Sister May and Paul’s time.A girl I used to work with at the Beechams did like really big burps.387

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