Tense Narratives

Author : M. Rafael Salaberry
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298836

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The Development of Past Tense Morphology in L2 Spanish by M. Rafael Salaberry Pdf

This book presents an extended analysis of the development of L2 Spanish past tense morphology among L1 English-speaking learners. The study addresses three major questions: (1) what is the developmental pattern of acquisition of past tense verbal morphology among tutored learners? (2) what are the relevant factors that may account for the particular distribution of morphological endings (especially at the beginning stages)?, and (3) how does instruction affect the movement from one stage to the next? The analysis provides a reassessment of the general claim of Andersen’s lexical aspect hypothesis and proposes minor changes that may render the hypothesis more appropriate for, especially, L2 classroom learning. The study includes an overview of theoretical positions on the notion of lexical versus grammatical aspect, and a comparison of the findings from previous empirical studies on the development of past tense verbal morphology among both classroom and naturalistic learners.

Author : Zuzana Toth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110625189

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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 : Michael G. W. Bamberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110111861

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The Acquisition of Narratives by Michael G. W. Bamberg Pdf

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Author : Derek Nurse
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191553608

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Tense and Aspect in Bantu by Derek Nurse Pdf

Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. Bantu languages are spoken in central, eastern, and southern sub-Saharan Africa south of a line between Nigeria and Somalia. By current estimates there are between 250 and 600 of them, as yet neither adequately classified nor fully described. Professor Nurse's account is based on data from more than 200 Bantu languages and varieties, a representative sample of which is freely available on the publisher's website. He devotes substantial chapters to the analysis and comparison of the different tense and aspect systems found in Bantu. He also examines the verbal categories with which they interact, including negation and focus. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives are interwoven throughout the book. Following a brief history of Bantu over the last five thousand years, the final two chapters look systematically at the history of tense and aspect in Bantu. The first deals with the reconstruction of the earlier forms from which contemporary structures, morphemes, and categories are derived, and the second with the processes of change, including grammaticalization, by means of which older analytical structures and independent lexical items moved as they became incorporated as grammatical inflections and categories.

Author : Armen Avanessian,Anke Hennig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628927672

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Present Tense by Armen Avanessian,Anke Hennig Pdf

The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting. From the first novels shaped by interior monologues and the use of the present tense in the tradition of modernism, the present tense has, over the course of its century-long evolution, changed the conditions of fictional narration, along with our conceptions of time in a philosophical and linguistic framework. Indeed, to understand the work of an increasing number of contemporary writers – J.M. Coetzee, Tom McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, to name only a few – it is necessary to both understand the distinct linguistic and literary qualities of the present tense as well as its historical transformation into a genuine tense of contemporary storytelling. For the first time in literary scholarship, Present Tense: A Poetics offers an account of a profound development in 20th- and 21st-century fiction.

Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : M. Rafael Salaberry,Llorenç Comajoan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781934078167

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Research Design and Methodology in Studies on L2 Tense and Aspect by M. Rafael Salaberry,Llorenç Comajoan Pdf

Research Design and Methodology in Studies on Second Language Tense and Aspect provides an up-to-date review of past and current methodologies for the study of the L2 acquisition of tense and aspect. More specifically, the book addresses the following issues related to the design of studies for research in tense and aspect: Theoretical frameworks (e.g., Are research questions investigated within one theoretical approach incompatible with other approaches?) Elicitation procedures (Do different types of tasks elicit different types of tense-aspect data?) Coding of data (e.g. How are lexical categories defined and coded?) Data analysis (e.g., What statistical tests are more appropriate to analyze language data?) The volume provides new insights into the study of L2 tense-aspect by bringing together well renowned scholars with experience in the research design of research this area of the field.

Author : Nicholas Elder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567688132

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The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Narrative by Nicholas Elder Pdf

Generically, theologically, and concerning content, Mark and Joseph and Aseneth are quite different. The former is a product of the nascent Jesus movement and influenced by the Greco-Roman Bioi (“Lives”). It details the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of a wandering Galilean. The latter is a Hellenistic Jewish narrative influenced by Greek romances and Jewish novellas. It expands the laconic account of Joseph's marriage to Aseneth in Genesis 41 into a full-fledged love and adventure story. Despite these differences, Elder finds remarkable similarities that the texts share. Elder uses both texts to examine media and modes of composition in antiquity, arguing that they were both composed via dictation from their antecedent oral traditions. Elder's volume offers a fresh approach to the composition of both Joseph and Aseneth and Mark as well as to many of their respective interpretive debates.

Author : Suzanne Keen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137439598

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Narrative Form by Suzanne Keen Pdf

This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.

Author : Suzanne Fleischman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780292786554

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Tense and Narrativity by Suzanne Fleischman Pdf

In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language. Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the foundation for all narratological study, since it offers insight into how narratives are constructed in their most primary context: everyday speech. She uses a linguistic model designed for "natural" narrative to explicate the organizational structure of "artificial" narrative texts, primarily from the Middle Ages and the postmodern period, whose seemingly idiosyncratic use of tenses has long perplexed those who study them. Fleischman develops a functional theory of tense and aspect in narrative that accounts for the wide variety of functions—pragmatic as well as grammatical—that these two categories of grammar are called upon to perform in the linguistic economy of a narration.

Author : David R. Bogdan,William Joseph Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Polish language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132478376

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The Tense-aspect System of Polish Narrative by David R. Bogdan,William Joseph Sullivan Pdf

Author : Katherine Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674023633

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Narratives from the Crib by Katherine Nelson Pdf

This classic psychological case study focuses on one talkative child's emerging ability to use language, her capacity for understanding, for imagining, and for making inferences and solving problems. In wide-ranging essays, scholars offer multifaceted linguistic and psychological analyses of two-year-old Emily's bedtime conversations with her parents and pre-sleep monologues, taped over a fifteen-month period. In a foreword written for this new edition, Emily, now an adult, reflects on the experience of having been a research subject without knowing it.

Author : Irmtraud Huber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137562135

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Present Tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction by Irmtraud Huber Pdf

In this book, Irmtraud Huber considers a wide range of contemporary novels to explore the variety of possibilities and effects of the use of the present tense, as well as investigating the reasons for its popularity. By illustrating the complexity and sophistication of four different types of contemporary usage, Huber’s discussion goes some way towards refuting those critical voices which consider present-tense narration a passing fad and stylistic affectation. As a tense of narration, the present can serve to tell different stories than the past tense, or can tell them differently. By no means a passing fad, it is an important characteristic of contemporary literature.

Author : Dalila Ayoun,M. Rafael Salaberry
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294357

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Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages by Dalila Ayoun,M. Rafael Salaberry Pdf

This volume presents a state-of-the-art descriptive and explanatory analysis of the second language development of Romance tense-aspect systems. It contains new experimental data from adult French, Catalan, Portuguese learners, and Italian children learners. Standing research questions are addressed and pedagogical implications for foreign language classrooms are proposed arguing that there are possible commonalities in the instructional sequences of tense-aspect development in Romance languages. The first chapter presents an overview of current theoretical approaches and a summary of empirical findings. The following four chapters introduce new empirical data from a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., the Aspect Hypothesis, the UG/Minimalist framework). Chapter 5 proposes practical pedagogical approaches for the foreign language classroom based on empirical findings. The last chapter summarizes and discusses these findings in order to start elaborating a more comprehensive model of the development of tense-aspect marking in the Romance languages.

Author : Arjan A. Nijk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781316517154

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Tense-Switching in Classical Greek by Arjan A. Nijk Pdf

Explores the relationship between the present tense and the conceptualisation of 'presence' in Greek from a cognitive perspective.