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C02 - Temporality and modalization in discourse structure

The project investigates mood and modalization applying a prominence-based conception of discourse structure. The categories capture for instance, how certain an assertion is or what relationship it holds with respect to reality. Thereby, the project complements its insights in temporal discourse structure (phase I) and argumentative orientation (phase II). The aim is to gain a better understanding of TAM (tense-aspect-mood) categories and world reference. The phenomena investigated in detail are (1) propositional attitudes like individual beliefs or evaluations of events, (2) dream contexts and their distinction from the real world, and (3) free indirect discourse (FID) with its different “voices”. The project focuses on two Romance languages, Spanish and Italian. It combines corpus research and experimental methods.

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Team

Prof. Dr. Martin Becker

Project Leader C02

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.313
E-Mail: martin.becker1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-2832

Dr. Jakob Egetenmeyer

Project Leader C02

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.04
E-Mail: j.egetenmeyer(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89919

Viktoria Henn

Doctoral Student C02

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.04
E-Mail: viktoria.henn(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89919

Luca Leppert

Doctoral Student C02

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.04
E-Mail: luca.leppert1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89919

Isabel Zimmer (geb. Fuhrmann)

Doctoral Student C02

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.04
E-Mail: ifuhrma2(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89919

Student Assistants


Julian Franken | jfrank22(at)uni-koeln.de

Dimitrios Sagredos | dsagred1(at)uni-koeln.de

Publications

To appear

  • Becker, Martin. To appear. Due profile discorsive in contrasto: il caso di “poiché” e “dal momento che” in sincronia e diacronia. Cuadernos di Filologia Italiana. 1–23.
  • Becker, Martin. To appear. Sprachdiskurse in Brasilien. In Peter Schulze (ed.), Brasilianistik: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven.

2026

  • Compes, Isabel, Jakob Egetenmeyer & Katja Hannß. 2026. Hierarchical discourse structure in spoken narratives. In Sonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl & Birgit Hellwig (eds.), The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations (Studies in Language Companion Series 240), 724–754. John Benjamins.

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