Jakob Egetenmeyer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jakob Egetenmeyer is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 26. Hierarchical discourse structure in spoken narratives The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 724–754 | Chapter
Under-described languages may present diverse strategies of structuring narrative discourse. Investigations into the structure of narratives of such languages, in particular ones with a predominantly oral tradition, are still scarce, and even more so studies that relate the structure with the… read more
2020 Chapter 7. Temporal prominence demotion in updating imparfait uses in L’Étranger The Expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus’s L'Étranger and Its Translations / L'Étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME): An empirical study / Etude empirique, Corre, Eric, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao (eds.), pp. 117–142 | Chapter
We investigate certain time updating uses of the French Imparfait in Camus’ L’Étranger which express ongoing eventualities but also update narrative time. Our focus lies on progressives with narrative features without an explicit marking of the update. We apply the prominence-based temporal… read more

