Tense And Aspects In Discourse

Author : Co Vet,Carl Vetters
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110902617

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Tense and Aspects in Discourse by Co Vet,Carl Vetters Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Renaat Declerck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317419488

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Tense in English by Renaat Declerck Pdf

First published in 1991, this book looks at tense in English, one of the most controversial areas of grammar. Prior to the book’s original publication, the problems and interest in the subject had led to an impressive number of books and articles. Yet, despite the amount of work produced, nothing approaching a consensus had emerged, merely a series of conflicting theories and analyses. Here, Renaat Declerck provides a framework for a theoretical instrument which will enable the linguist to interpret the data correctly. The book is primarily theoretical in nature, but offers descriptive theory and a discussion of the various tenses which will make it a valuable tool for those teaching English. Theoretical and applied linguists will find this an important contribution to the debate on tense and a worthy starting point for future research. The book is not written from the viewpoint of any particular linguistic theory and does not presuppose any knowledge of tense theory, it is a readable and reliable guide to the area.

Author : Renate Bartsch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110814606

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Situations, Tense, and Aspect by Renate Bartsch Pdf

Author : Jakob Egetenmeyer,Sarah Dessì Schmid,Martin G Becker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-10-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3111424588

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Tense, Aspect and Discourse Structure by Jakob Egetenmeyer,Sarah Dessì Schmid,Martin G Becker Pdf

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.

Author : Paul J. Hopper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286475

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Tense-Aspect by Paul J. Hopper Pdf

The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker’s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms of their syntactic and morphological realization. Nevertheless, their treatment in contemporary linguistics is often restricted and narrow based, often involving mere recapitulatoin of traditional semantic and morphotactic studies. The present volume arises out of a symposium held at UCLA in May 1979, in which a group of linguists gathered to re-open the subject of tense-and-aspect from a variety of perspectives, including — in addition to the traditional semantics — also discourse-pragmatics, psycholinguistics, child language, Creolization and diachronic change. The languages discussed in this volume include Russian, Turkish, English, Indonesian, Ameslan, Eskimo, various Creoles, Mandari, Hebrew, Bantu and others. The emphasis throughout is not only on the description of language-specific tense-aspect phenomenon, but more on the search for universal categories and principles which underlie the cross-language variety of tense and aspect. In particular, many of the participants address themselves to the relationship between propositional-semantics and discourse-pragmatics, in so far as these two functional domains interact within tense-aspect systems.

Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780195381979

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The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect by Robert I. Binnick Pdf

This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.

Author : Kyung-Sook Chung
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255723

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Space in Tense by Kyung-Sook Chung Pdf

This monograph explores the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality of Korean, which has a rich verbal inflectional system, and proposes novel treatments within the framework of compositional semantics. One of the major contributions is the demonstration that Korean has two types of deictic tense—simple deictic and spatial deictic tense. Spatial deictic tense refers to the notion of the speaker's 'perceptual field' (or deictic range), as well as to temporality, functioning to set up a condition for a systematic evidential distinction. The research in this volume shows that the basic paradigm of evidentiality of Korean derives from the standard TMA system combined with the notion of space. This volume also shows that perfect and past tense utilize different primitives. The intended readership of this volume extends beyond Koreanists to scholars interested specifically in tense, mood, aspect, and evidentiality as well as in general theories of grammar and semantics-pragmatics.

Author : Louis de Saussure,Jacques Moeschler,Genoveva Puskás
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789042022089

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Tense, Mood and Aspect by Louis de Saussure,Jacques Moeschler,Genoveva Puskás Pdf

This book is a collection of articles dealing with theoretical issues in the study of tense, mood and aspect, as well as with specific semantic and syntactic problems raised by linguistic expressions dedicated to these domains across a variety of languages. Through these papers, strong variations are explored, but also crosslinguistic convergences are investigated. Numerous phenomena so far often left aside in linguistics are described and enlightened by different scientific standpoints, which they serve to illustrate. The languages investigated in this volume include Germanic languages (Dutch, English, German), Romance (French, Catalan, Italian), Slavic (Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Russian), Greek, and non-indoeuropean languages such as Thai, Digo and Kikuyu. Related topics such as grammaticalization, presuppositions, questions in dialogue, illocutionary acts and acquisition are incidentally called upon in order to shed light from the outside onto tense, mood (and modality) and aspect. This volume is of great interest for all scholars engaged in contemporary research on the linguistic expression of tense, mood and aspect. The papers gathered in this volume are a tight selection of the ones that were presented at the 6th Chronos colloquium.

Author : Louis de Saussure,Jacques Moeschler,Genoveva Puskás
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198768

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Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality by Louis de Saussure,Jacques Moeschler,Genoveva Puskás Pdf

It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics. A large number of syntactic and semantic phenomena are concerned by the temporal-aspectual-modal level of representation: information about time, aspect and modality is part of virtually all sentences; inflexion is quite widely considered as the core of syntactic projections. Because of this very crucial situation and role in the sentence structure, temporal-aspectual and modal information concerns virtually any part of the sentence and this information has scope over the whole characterization of the eventuality denoted by the sentence. This book is an up-to-date milestone for the studies of temporality and language, in particular regarding syntax and semantics, but with incidental hints to pragmatics and theories of human natural language understanding. Through this very tight selection of 15 papers (originally delivered during the 6th Chronos colloquium), tenses, aspect and modality are investigated both at the descriptive and theoretical levels, involving many different Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages. The volume sheds light on a wide array of phenomena that remained too little explored until now. These include the following: modal subordination in Japanese, epistemic modals in Dutch and English in Free Indirect Speech contexts, aspectual readings of idioms, adverb-licensing with the German perfect, French imperfective past compared with English progressive past, infinitival perfect in English, Adult Root Infinitives, economy constraints on temporal subordinations, future modality, past interpretation of present tense in embedded clauses, and time without tenses in Mandarin and Navajo. The book is of interest to scholars and advanced students in the fields of linguistics (general linguistics, semantics, syntax) as well as philosophy and logic.

Author : EunHee Lee
Publisher : Brill
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Discourse analysis, Narrative
ISBN : 9004422129

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The Logic of Narratives by EunHee Lee Pdf

The Logic of Narratives is a linguistic study of narrative discourse that contextualizes the logical aspect of narratives. The book provides Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) formalization (Kamp and Reyle, 1993) of naturally occurring narrative data from corpus and literary works.

Author : Robert I. Binnick,Robert I Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780195062069

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Time and the Verb by Robert I. Binnick,Robert I Binnick Pdf

This guide provides the reader with a broad perspective of grammar, from classical Greek and Latin to the latest proposals in formal semantics.

Author : Zuzana Toth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110626490

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Tense and Aspect in Italian Interlanguage by Zuzana Toth Pdf

The expression of time is fundamental in communication and languages have developed a variety of means to encode temporal relations. When learning a new language, learners are often faced with the challenging task of discovering a new system of temporal relations. The present study investigates the development of tense and aspect marking in the interlanguage of L3 Italian learners enrolled in university language courses. It examines how the tense-aspect system develops in the interlanguage and how the acquisition process is shaped by factors such as the lexical aspectual value of the predicates and discourse grounding. The data indicate that both lexical aspect and discourse grounding influence the distribution of verbal morphology in the interlanguage. Semantically congruent pairings of lexical aspect, verbal morphology and discourse grounding are used more frequently and appropriately than less prototypical combinations. The acquisition process is also influenced by the learner’s L1, which was mostly German in the context of the present study. The study can be used as a guide for curricular decisions in language teaching, and for projecting further research on the development of tense-aspect marking in multilingual learners.

Author : Lucien Brown,Jaehoon Yeon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119016878

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The Handbook of Korean Linguistics by Lucien Brown,Jaehoon Yeon Pdf

The Handbook of Korean Linguistics presents state-of-the-art overviews of the linguistic research on the Korean language. • Structured to allow a range of theoretical perspectives in addressing linguistic phenomena • Includes chapters on Old Korean and Middle Korean, present-day language policies in North and South Korea, social aspects of Korean as a heritage language, and honorifics • Indispensable and unique resource not only for those studying Korean linguistics but cross-linguistic research in general

Author : Nils B. Thelin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283368

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Verbal Aspect in Discourse by Nils B. Thelin Pdf

In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the discourse/situation level. Hereby it attempts to relate these functions to each other in ways that stimulate consistently language processing on a more solid perceptual-conceptual and pragmatic basis. Reflecting in various ways this general tendency. The 13 papers collected in this volume are oriented to four fields of research: (1) Developmental properties of aspect and tense; (2) Ideo-pragmatic and conceptual-semantic correlates of aspect and the perspectival organisation of discourse; (3) Aspect, case and discourse; (4) and Aspect in literary discourse. The editor's Introduction gives a comprehensive survey of contemporary aspectology and its development towards a proper integration of discourse/situation conditions. Besides cross-linguistic considerations (including English), the languages analyzed specifically are Russian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, French and Finnish.

Author : Adeline Patard,Frank Brisard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223838

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Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality by Adeline Patard,Frank Brisard Pdf

This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is understood as indicating “a degree of compatibility between the modal world and the factual world” (Declerck). All contributions, moreover, tackle these problems from a more or less cognitive point of view, with some of them insisting on the need to provide a unifying explanation for all usage types, temporal and non-temporal, and all of them accepting the premise that the semantics of TA categories essentially refers to subjective, rather than objective, concerns. The volume also represents one of the first attempts to gather accounts of TA marking (in various languages) that are explicitly set within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Ultimately, this volume aims to contribute to establishing an awareness that modal meaning elements are directly relevant to the analysis of the grammar of time.