New Book Release

Infoling 10.19 (2024)
Title:Tense, Aspect and Discourse Structure
Authors:Egetenmeyer, Jakob; Schmid, Sarah Dessì; Becker, Martin G.
Year of Publication:2024
Place of Publication:Berlin (Alemania)
Publisher:De Gruyter
Description:

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:

  1. the context-sensitivity of tense and aspect and their relationships with neighbouring categories,
  2. their interaction with adverbs,
  3. 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.

 

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Subject Area(s):Análisis del discurso, Lingüística románica, Pragmática, Semántica
Table of Contents

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

Series or CollectionBeihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 492
Format:PDF (acceso abierto)
Pages:378
ISBN-13:978-3-11-145389-7


Fecha de publicación en Infoling:6 de October de 2024
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