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Prominence in Language

C02 - Tense and aspect in discourse

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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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

Deputy Postdoc representative, 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

Lisa Gerks

Doctoral student C02

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

Name

Anja Doveren

Student Assistant C02

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.04
E-Mail: adovere2@uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89919

Name

Vanessa Reibaldi

Student Assistant C02

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.04
E-mail: vreibal1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89919

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

2020

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).