Egetenmeyer, Jakob 
ORCID: 0000-0003-2394-9545
(2021).
Time updating uses of the French imparfait extending across genres.
In:
Aspects of tenses, modality, and evidentiality,
pp. 56-77.
Leiden / Boston:
Brill.
ISBN 978-90-04-46585-5
Abstract
This article takes a special stance on a family of uses of the French imparfait which are not usually described as being related. A common designation for some of them is narrative imparfait. However, we integrate a wider array of cases in our description. They share the property of being part of the narrative development of a text, more precisely, they update narrative time. By implementing a set of factors which concern their functioning in discourse, we are able to distinguish five types in a fine-grained manner. One of the factors is prominence, which has only recently been introduced into the study of tense and aspect. Finally, we address the relationship between the different uses and the text types they are expected to appear in.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
| Creators: | Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code |
| Editors: | Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Baranzini, Laura UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED de Saussure, Louis UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-377706 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1163/9789004468184_005 |
| Title of Book: | Aspects of tenses, modality, and evidentiality |
| Series Name: | Cahiers Chronos |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Page Range: | pp. 56-77 |
| Date: | October 2021 |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Place of Publication: | Leiden / Boston |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-46585-5 |
| Language: | English |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| Divisions: | Collaborative Research Centers > CRC 1252: Prominence in Language > TP C02 |
| Subjects: | Language, Linguistics |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Keywords Language Updating imparfait uses; Narrative imparfait; Temporal discourse structure; Prominence English |
| Funders: | DFG |
| Projects: | SFB 1252 Prominence in Language, Project-ID 281511265 |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/37770 |
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2394-9545Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Altmetric
Export
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |