In phase II, the project includes argumentative orientation into its account of temporal discourse structure. Argumentative relations strengthen, weaken or contrast inferences. They determine the orientation of discourse and guide the expectations of the listener. The project investigates their interaction with temporal discourse structure with respect to the prominence of propositions. It analyses the interplay of argumentative connectors and tense-aspect forms in the Romance languages French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. The project combines corpus research and experimental methods.

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Publications

To appear

• 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.
• Becker, Martin. To appear. Free indirect discourse, quotative readings and the Romance imperfect. Italian Journal of Linguistics.
• 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. Zeit, Tempus und Erzählperspektive in Kebir Ammis Sur les pas de Saint Augustin. Romanische Forschungen.

2021

• Becker, Martin, Jakob Egetenmeyer & Stefan Hinterwimmer. 2021. Perspective in German and French: Divergences in formal marking and temporal anchoring. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (LiLi) 51(2). 321–356.
• Egetenmeyer, Jakob. 2021. Genre determining prediction: Non-standard TAM marking in football language. Frontiers in Communication 6. 1–18. 
• Egetenmeyer, Jakob. 2021. Temporal relations of free indirect discourse events. Linguistics 59(4). 1057–1102.
• Egetenmeyer, Jakob. 2021. Time updating uses of the French imparfait extending across genres. In Laura Baranzini & Louis de Saussure (eds.), Aspects of tenses, modality, and evidentiality (= Cahiers Chronos; 31), 56–77. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

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. Experiment: Prominent anchor time of French FID [Data set]. Zenodo. zip
• 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. 
• Egetenmeyer, Jakob. 2020. The prominence value of the temporal anchor of free indirect discourse: A comparison with the perspectival center. Discours 27. 3–40.

2018

• Becker, Martin & Jakob Egetenmeyer. 2018. A prominence-based account of temporal discourse structure. Lingua 214. 28-58. pdf
• Becker, Martin & Ludwig Fesenmeier (eds.). 2018. Configurazioni della serialità linguistica - prospettive italoromanze. Berlin: Frank & Timme.
• Becker, Martin & Giovanni Pairotti. 2018. Le frasi presentative dal latino all'italiano antico: le categorie aspettuali. In Antonelli, Roberto, Martin Glessgen & Paul Videsott (eds.), Atti del XXVIII Congresso internazionale di linguistica e filologia romanza. Roma 18-23 luglio 2016 (=Bibliothèque de Linguistique Romane 15), 363-374. Strasbourg: ELIPHI, Éditions de linguistique et de philologie.
• Donazzan, Marta & Martin Becker. 2018. Deissi e relazioni di coerenza testuale. Il caso di «ora». In Becker, Martin & Ludwig Fesenmeier (eds.), Configurazioni della serialità linguistica. Prospettive italoromanze (= Romanistik 28), 153-182. Berlin: Frank & Timme.

2017

• Becker, Martin & Marta Donazzan. 2017. Or, ora, maintenant: perspective temporelle et perspective argumentative. Discours 20/2017. Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique. 1-33. pdf 
• Müller, Lukas. 2017. Die zentralen und peripheren Lesarten des portugiesischen Perfekts - eine explorative Studie für ein integratives Modell. Masterarbeit, Universität zu Köln.

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).