‘Hot news’ and perfect change: mirativity and the semantics/pragmatics interface

catalaEn aquest article es proposa una analisi del perfet de passat recent o hot news basada en l’analisi de Nishiyama & Koenig (2010) on s’analitza el perfet com una categoria que denota un ‘estat perfet’ introduit per una variable que necessita ser pragmaticament enriquida. El significat pragmatic s’analitza ampliant la representacio del significat miratiu de Rett & Murray (2013) com un estat meta d’un esdeveniment d’aprenentatge, el qual considero que, en termes generals, es tracta de la reaccio de sorpresa del parlant. L’analisi es porta a terme atenent els usos no canonics del perfet en angles australia en passatges narratius i articles de la policia dels mitjans de comunicacio. Argueixo que l’us del perfet de passat recent o hot news es troba en la base d’aquestes extensions i proposo representacions pels usos en sequencies de clausules que expressen progressio temporal i en clausules que contenen un adverbi temporal definit de passat. L’article conclou tractant la present analisi considerant les investigacions previes i la seva implicacio al nostre coneixement de la gramaticalitzacio dels perfets. EnglishThis paper proposes an analysis of the hot news Present Perfect (PP) building on Nishiyama & Koenig’s (2010) analysis of the perfect as denoting a perfect state introduced by a variable that needs to be pragmatically enriched. Pragmatic meaning is analysed extending Rett & Murray’s (2013) representation of mirative meaning as the target state of a learning event, which I take to be the speaker’s reaction of surprise more generally. The analysis is considered in the light of noncanonical uses of the PP in Australian English narratives and police media reports. I argue that hot news usage is at the basis of such extensions and propose representations for uses in sequences of clauses expressing temporal progression and in clauses containing a definite past time adverbial. The paper concludes by discussing the present analysis in the light of previous research and its implication to our understanding of the grammaticalization of perfects.