Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages
Title | Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Dalila Ayoun |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2005-08-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027294356 |
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.
Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages
Title | Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Dalila Ayoun |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027241405 |
LC number: 2005050068
Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe
Title | Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Östen Dahl |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 865 |
Release | 2008-08-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 311019709X |
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Tense and Aspect
Title | Tense and Aspect PDF eBook |
Author | Alessandra Giorgi |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1997-12-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0195357884 |
The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework. They compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones.
Basque and Romance
Title | Basque and Romance PDF eBook |
Author | Ane Berro |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2019-05-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004395393 |
Aligning Grammars: Basque and Romance offers a theoretically-informed in-depth description of several linguistic structures of Basque and surrounding Romance languages. Its goal is to shed some light on the linguistic systems of these languages and their interactions.
Tense and Aspect : From Semantics to Morphosyntax
Title | Tense and Aspect : From Semantics to Morphosyntax PDF eBook |
Author | Alessandra Giorgi Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics University of Bergamo |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 1997-11-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198025238 |
The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework. They compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones.
Tense and Aspect in Italian Interlanguage
Title | Tense and Aspect in Italian Interlanguage PDF eBook |
Author | Zuzana Toth |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2020-11-23 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 3110626497 |
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.