Universität zu Köln

Egetenmeyer, Jakob ORCID: 0000-0003-2394-9545 (2020). Temporal prominence demotion in updating imparfait uses in L'Étranger. In: 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 empiri, pp. 118-142. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

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Abstract

We investigate certain time updating uses of the French Imparfait in Camus’ L’Étranger which express ongoing eventualities but also update narrative time. Our focus lies on progressives with narrative features without an explicit marking of the update. We apply the prominence-based temporal account of Becker & Egetenmeyer (2018) and concentrate on the level of relations between time points. Using this approach, we determine the prominence value of the reference points the imparfaits introduce. In the described uses, the prominence value is demoted to minimally prominent within its domain. This has important consequences for the temporal structure of the passage they occur in as the prominence demoted reference point is not available as an anchor for following temporal updates. A comparison with two Spanish translations of L’Étranger supports our analysis.

Item Type:	Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Egetenmeyer, Jakob j.egetenmeyer@uni-koeln.de orcid.org/0000-0003-2394-9545 UNSPECIFIED
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Corre, Eric UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Do-Hurinville, Danh Thành UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Dao, Huy Linh UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-377695
Title of Book:	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 empiri
Series Name:	Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa
Volume:	35
Page Range:	pp. 118-142
Date:	2020
Publisher:	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of Publication:	Amsterdam/Philadelphia
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 temporal discourse structure; prominence; tense; imparfait; L’Étranger; French; Spanish UNSPECIFIED
Related URLs:	https://benjamins.com/catalog/lis.35.07e...
Funders:	DFG
Projects:	SFB 1252 Prominence in Language, Project-ID 281511265
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/37769