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Verbal Aspect in Discourse
Editor
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.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 5] 1990. xvi, 490 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 July 2011
Published online on 7 July 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- PrefaceNils B. Thelin | p. vii
- List of Contributors | pp. xvii–xvi
- Introduction: Verbal Aspect in Discourse$$On the State of the ArtNils B. Thelin | p. 3
- 1. Developmental properties of aspect and tense
- On the Concept of Time: Prolegomena to A Theory of Aspect and Tense in Narrative DiscourseNils B. Thelin | p. 91
- The Functional Evolution of Aspects in RussianKyril T. Holden | p. 131
- Discourse Functions of Tense-Aspect in French: Dynamic SynchronyLinda R. Waugh | p. 159
- 2. Ideo-pragmatic and conceptual-semantic correlates of aspect and the perspectival organisation of discourse
- Notes on the “Metaphysics” of Russian AspectBoris Gasparov | p. 191
- Verbal Aspect, Discourse Saliency, and the So-Called “Perfect of Result” in Modern RussianCatherine V. Chvany | p. 213
- Discourse Analysis of Aorist and Imperfect in Bulgarian and FrenchJean-Pierre Desclés and Zlatka Guentchéva | p. 237
- Narrative Context and Russian AspectGrace E. Fielder | p. 263
- Temporal and Semantic Factors Affecting Russian Aspect Choice in QuestionsPatricia R. Chaput | p. 285
- Russian Aspect in Questions: Information and Invariance in DiscoursePeter T. Merrill | p. 307
- 3. Aspect, case and discourse
- The Aspectual Case of Predicative Nouns in Lithuanian TextsAlan Timberlake | p. 325
- On Finnish “Aspect” in DiscourseHannu Tommola | p. 349
- 4. Aspect in Russian literacy discourse
- Aspect in Textual Deep Structure: On the Message Theme of Puškin’s The Bronze HorsemanAndre G.F. van Holk | p. 367
- Narrative Description or Descriptive Narration: Problems of Aspectualityt in ČechovPeter Alberg Jensen | p. 383
- Index of proper names | pp. 411–415
- Index of Languages | pp. 416–417
- Index of Topics | pp. 418–490
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