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Tense and aspect are crucial devices of sentence meaning. They interact with Aktionsart, but also with verb types and adverbs when indicating temporal relations and building temporal discourse structure. On the discourse level, they are co-determined by narrative functions, enhancing the complexity of their description. The volume depicts this vast field. It unites twelve contributions which elaborate on three thematic cores:
- the context-sensitivity of tense and aspect and their relationships with neighbouring categories,
- their interaction with adverbs,
- their functioning in discourse.
The volume advances our knowledge of the matters at hand in different respects. It discusses the onomasiological status of categories such temporality and aspectuality critically. It addresses the functioning of tense in discourse from various angles. A further focus is placed on the imperfective past tense-aspect form, its uses and meaning potentials. Its analysis ranges from marking evidentiality to indicating perspectives.
The volume combines papers with various theoretical approaches and methodologies, notably, formally oriented linguistics and data-driven accounts. The multiplicity of subjects and methods may resonate beyond the field of Romance linguistics.
Jakob Egetenmeyer, Sarah Dessì Schmid and Martin Becker
Tense, aspect and discourse structure. An introduction
Context-sensitivity and neighbouring categories
Patrick Caudal
On so-called “tense uses” in French as context-sensitive constructions
Sarah Dessì Schmid and Lydia Momma
Progressivity between lexicon, grammar and context
Victoria Escandell-Vidal
Understanding the Spanish imperfecto. Temporal dimensions and evidential effects
Susana Azpiazu
Evidentiality, epistemic modality and temporality in the Spanish verbal system
Aspect and Aktionsart and the interaction with adverbs
Johanna Mattissen
Lexical actional classes in Romance languages in interaction with aspectually relevant material in the clause
Gerda Haßler and Verónica Böhm
Adverbs as aspect markers and their interaction with verb forms
Tim Diaubalick, Lukas Eibensteiner and Rafael Salaberry
The value of acquisitional data for describing cross-linguistic differences in the expression of aspectuality. A focus on the learning strategies of Germanspeaking learners of Spanish
The functioning of tense and aspect in discourse
Giuliano Armenante
Sequence of tense as aspectual harmony
Pier Marco Bertinetto
On tense usage in Italian free indirect discourse
Jakob Egetenmeyer
Textual development beyond temporality and interactions between the adversative connector pero and the indefinido
Elina Eliasson
Analysis of imperfective verb forms in a perfective context. A comparative study of French and Russian aspectuality
Felix Tacke
Voilà in the temporal discourse structure of narrative texts
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