¿Variación aspectual? Sufijos sustantivadores deverbales en competencia en el habla cubana

In this chapter, we examine the functioning of two deverbal nominalizing suffixes present in the system of Cuban speech, on one hand -dera, and -ado, on the other, as well their variants. We the turn to highlight the failures and inconsistencies generated by the traditional description of these suffixes as having an aspectual value. We then apply the principles of Adamczewski’s (1978, 1996) phase theory in order to determine that -dera is a phase II suffix, i.e. it handles a piece of information having an antecedent or being already present in the communicative situation, while -ado / -ada, -adito / -adita are phase I suffixes, i.e. they provide a piece of information produced at the moment of the utterance. Under the premise that this would be the linguistic invariant value leading to the selection of each of the forms when the utterance is being built, we conclude that values such as the aspectual have an extralinguistic character and are obtained on the surface of the ongoing discursive chain, only after the utterance is built, and when coming into contact with the different context and situation variables. Thus, we find that the operational principle of the phases, that can be considered a language universal as it cyclically reoccurs in each grammatical operator (Adamczewski 1995b), likewise works in the case of the realizations to be found in a given speech.