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Prominence in Language

C02 - Tense and aspect in discourse

Project C02 investigates the temporal structuring of discourse, i.e. the aspectual shaping, temporal anchoring, ordering and perspectivizing of eventualities. This kind of prominence structure is based on tense-aspect categories in interplay with situation types, co-textual information (e.g. adverbs) and interpretational mechanisms (e.g. coherence relations). We compare French and Spanish corpus data. Additionally, Italian is treated. A doctoral subproject investigates Portuguese. We verify our findings through experimental methods such as acceptability studies and forced-choice tests.

See list of publications

Team

Name

Prof. Dr. Martin Becker

Principal Investigator C02

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.313
E-mail: martin.becker1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-2832
Web: Prof. Dr. Martin Becker

Name

Dr. Jakob Egetenmeyer

Postdoc C02

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

Name

Lukas Müller

Doctoral student

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.04
E-mail: lukas.mueller(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89919
Web: Lukas Müller

Name

Laila López Armbruster

Student Assistant C02

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.04
E-mail: llopeza1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89919

Name

David Wick

Student assistant C02

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.04
E-mail: dwick1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89919

List of publications

To appear

  • Becker, Martin. To appear. Zeit, Tempus und Erzählperspektive in Kebir Ammis Sur les pas de Saint Augustin. Romanische Forschungen.
  • Becker, Martin. To appear. More about the PPC – the PPC and its interaction with quantifiers in a diachronic perspective. In David Paul Gerards, Benjamin Meisnitzer & Albert Wall (eds.), Micro-Variation and its impact on the system(s) of Portuguese (= special issue of PhiN, Philologie im Netz). 
  • Becker, Martin. To appear. A tradição do pensamento universalista e a Grammatica Philosophica de Lingua Portugueza de João Soares Barbosa. In Benjamin Meisnitzer & Yvonne Hendrich (eds.), Lingua e identidade no mundo lusófono - Sprache und Identität in der lusophonen Welt. Ibidem.

2020

  • Becker, Martin. 2020. Das Pretérito Perfeito Composto - ein Perfekt? Zur Semantik und Diachronie der ter + Partizip-Konstruktion. In Benjamin Meisnitzer & Elissa Pustka (eds.), Zwischen Sprechen und Sprache, 83-110. Frankfurt am Main: Lang. 
  • Becker, Martin. 2020. O Pretérito Perfeito Composto (PPC) na história do português no Brasil. In Rodolfo Ilari & Renato Basso (eds.), História Semântica do Português Brasileiro, 146-203. São Paulo: Editora Contexto.
  • Becker, Martin. 2020. The pluperfect and its discourse potential in contrast – a comparison between Spanish, French and Italian. Revue Romane.
  • Becker, Martin & Giovanni Pairotti. 2020. L’imperfetto narrativo in italiano. In Antje Lobin, Sarah Dessì Schmid & Ludwig Fesenmeier (eds.), Ibridità e norma, 179–203. Berlin: Frank & Timme.
  • Egetenmeyer, Jakob. 2020. Temporal prominence demotion in updating imparfait uses in L’Étranger. In Eric Corre, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville & Huy Linh Dao (eds.), 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 (=Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa 35), 118-142. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 

2018

2017

Event organization

  • Organization of the workshop "Ways of Reference in Romance Languages" held from 27th-28th September 2018, joint work with C03 and B04.
  • Section 12: "Tempus, Aspekt und Diskursstruktur" at the 36th Romanistentag from 29.09. to 02.10.2019 in Kassel (Jakob Egetenmeyer, Sarah Dessì Schmid and Martin Becker).