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Verbal aspect in discourse [electronic resource]

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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 re

Title Verbal aspect in discourse [electronic resource] : contributions to the semantics of time and temporal perspective in slavic and non-slavic languages / edited and introduced by Nils B. Thelin.
Publisher Amsterdam
Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
Creation Date 1990
Notes Some papers first presented at the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies in Washington, DC, 10/30-11/4/85.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English
Content VERBAL ASPECT IN DISCOURSE
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Preface
List of contributors
Introduction
Verbal aspect in discourse: on the state of the art
1. Developmental properties of aspect and tense
On the concept of time:Prolegomena to a theory of aspect and tense in narrative discourse
The functional evolution of aspect in Russian
Discourse functions of tense-aspect in French: dynamic synchrony
2. Ideo-pragmatic and conceptual-semanticcorrelates of aspect and the perspectivalorganisation of discourse
Notes on the ""Metaphysics"" of Russian aspect
Verbal aspect, discourse saliency, and the so-called ""Perfect of result"" in modern RussianDiscourse analysis of aorist and imperfect in Bulgarian and French
Narrative context and Russian aspect
Temporal and semantic factors affecting Russian aspect choice in questions
Russian aspect in questions: information and invariance in discourse
3. Aspect, case and discourse
The aspectual case of predicative nouns in Lithuanian texts
On Finnish ""aspect"" in discourse
4. Aspect in Russian literary discourse
Aspectin textual deep structure (On the message theme of Puskin's The Bronze Horseman)
Narrative description or descriptive narration: problems of aspectuality in CechovIndex of proper names
Index of languages
Index of topics
Series Pragmatics & beyond
new ser. 5
Extent 1 online resource (506 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010705761405171
MARC RECORDS
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