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(0)Lydia Momma
Author
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Die Arbeit behandelt auf der Grundlage einer ausführlichen diachronen Korpusanalyse die formale und funktionale Entstehung und Entwicklung der französischen progressiven Verbalperiphrase être en train de + Infinitiv von ihrem ersten Auftreten im 15. Jahrhundert bis heute. Untersucht werden dabei insbesondere die Fragen nach der Entwicklung der verschiedenen Bedeutungen der Periphrase sowie nach den Veränderungen der Restriktionen, denen die Verbalperiphrase...
2) Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads: Mirativity, Exclamativity and Cooptation in Romance Languages
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Pub. Date
[2025]
Description
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or -expressed differently- to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic devices. The different contributions included in the book point to revealing conclusions concerning the status of surprise in Romance as well as the place that mirativity occupies (if any) in the grammar of these languages. In...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Tense and aspect are crucial devices of sentence meaning. They interact with Aktionsart, but also with verb types and adverbs when indicating temporal relations and building temporal discourse structure. On the discourse level, they are co-determined by narrative functions, enhancing the complexity of their description. The volume depicts this vast field. It unites twelve contributions which elaborate on three thematic cores: 1) the context-sensitivity...