Norbert Vanek

List of John Benjamins publications in which Norbert Vanek is involved.

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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 15 (2015)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Kevin McManus, Norbert Vanek and Danijela Trenkic

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 15] 2015. ix, 163 pp.

Articles

Vanek, Norbert 2017 ‘It starts to explode.’ Phasal segmentation of contextualised events in L2 English Tense-Aspect-Modality in a Second Language: Contemporary perspectives, Howard, Martin and Pascale Leclercq (eds.), pp. 145–182 | Article

En route to acquiring novel principles of temporal information organisation in the target language, second language (L2) learners exhibit a capacity to build temporal constructions of their own, which are not necessarily fixed in the principles of either their source or their target language system. read more

Vanek, Norbert 2013 Event linearization in advanced L2 user discourse: Evidence for language-specificity in the discourse of Czech and Hungarian learners of English EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 13 (2013), Roberts, Leah, Anna Ewert, Miroslaw Pawlak and Magdalena Wrembel (eds.), pp. 47–80 | Article

Within the functionalist approach to SLA, this study examines the interaction of event linearization patterns in L2 with the ways temporal information is typically structured in learners’ source and target languages. Specifically, film verbalisations and picture descriptions by Czech and Hungarian… read more

Vanek, Norbert 2012 7. Language-specific perspectives in reference to time in the discourse of Czech, English, and Hungarian speakers Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 135–156 | Article

This chapter investigates patterns exhibited in the way native speakers of Czech, English, and Hungarian organise temporal information for the expression of events in context. Cross-linguistic contrasts have been identified with respect to four discourse dimensions: levels of granularity, degrees… read more