Temporal relations of free indirect discourse events

Egetenmeyer, Jakob

doi:10.1515/ling-2021-0085

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“…Therefore, there is a corresponding reference time in the temporal structure (R 3 ). More specifically, in line with Verine (2007: 83) and our interpretation in Egetenmeyer (2021a: 1066, 1071, with reference to Pustejovsky 1991, the speech verb in [3] is co-specified by the direct speech event. The subsequently introduced longer string of direct speech ([4]) follows the speech event of [3].…”

Section: The Updating Imperfecto With Speech Verbssupporting

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“…However, in addition to the mentions they receive in the literature, the fact that there is a French counterpart to such usage begs the question of whether it occurs in Spanish. In French, the updating imperfect is pervasive in football match reports, as shown, for instance, in Labeau (2004Labeau ( , 2007 and investigated in depth in Egetenmeyer (2021aEgetenmeyer ( , 2021b. As Egetenmeyer (2021a: 2) notes, "the French imperfective may in fact appear as the only inflected verb form in entire newspaper articles on football".…”

Section: The Updating Imperfecto In Football Match Reportsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Therefore, in French, the use of the updating imparfait found in football match reports is the most diverse sub-type (see Egetenmeyer 2021b). It occurs with verbs of different Aktionsart, may but does not have to co-occur with different kinds of adverbs, and the corresponding reference times may realize a varied set of prominence values (see Egetenmeyer 2021aEgetenmeyer , 2021b.…”

Section: The Updating Imperfecto In Football Match Reportsmentioning

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The The time updating imperfecto in Spanish

Egetenmeyer

2024

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The Spanish imperfecto may be used to update time in a narrative or a report. We take this phenomenon as a core property in order to account for a set of uses of the imperfective past tense-aspect form. We delimit these uses and sub-classify them according to their roles in the more abstract temporal structure. In order to do so, we apply the prominence-based account of temporal discourse structure by Becker & Egetenmeyer (2018). The findings of our analysis of the Spanish imperfecto are tripartite. First, we show that the typical narrative imperfect is only one instantiation of the updating imperfect and that there are also other interesting uses. Second, not all uses classified as cases of the narrative imperfecto in the research literature fall into our class of updating uses. Third, although there are unquestionable parallels with respect to the French updating imparfait, the assumption that the two forms have the same usage potential needs to be dismissed. We show that, within our more fine-grained categories, there are important differences between the two languages

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Section: The Updating Imperfecto With Speech Verbssupporting

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Section: The Updating Imperfecto In Football Match Reportsmentioning

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Section: The Updating Imperfecto In Football Match Reportsmentioning

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The The time updating imperfecto in Spanish

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2024

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Perspective in German and French: Divergences in Formal Marking and Temporal Anchoring

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Hinterwimmer

2021

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In narratives, either a narrator or a protagonist may be the perspective taker. Importantly, shifts between the two are possible. German and French differ with respect to the means which indicate that the perspective is shifted. While German may use a specific pronoun to indicate that the perspective is shifted from the protagonist to the narrator, French may display tense-aspect forms deviating from the expected ones. In our analysis, we take into account larger strings of context, thus committing to the discourse level. We apply a staged translation approach. This allows us to determine more precisely the diverging functioning of the language-specific means of perspective marking. The comparison of the means indicating perspective shifts opens a second question. If French allows for deviating tense-aspect forms, may the temporal anchoring diverge between the two languages? We confirm this on the grounds of a comparison of translations of German free indirect discourse to French.

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The Prominence Value of the Temporal Anchor of Free Indirect Discourse: A Comparison with the Perspectival Center

Egetenmeyer¹

2020

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Free indirect discourse (FID) is a kind of speech or thought representation that lacks specific marking. The entity to whom the speech or thought is attributed (the perspectival center) has been shown to be a contextually available prominent protagonist (see Hinterwimmer, 2019). A shortcoming of the literature is that it ignores the problem of the temporal anchoring of FID events. The present article is dedicated to such anchors. It focuses on their prominence value and discusses their relevant properties. It shows that FID has a strong tendency to be temporally anchored to a prominent time point. Thus, the protagonist and the anchor time point share the trait of prominence.

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Temporal relations of free indirect discourse events

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The The time updating imperfecto in Spanish

The The time updating imperfecto in Spanish

Perspective in German and French: Divergences in Formal Marking and Temporal Anchoring

The Prominence Value of the Temporal Anchor of Free Indirect Discourse: A Comparison with the Perspectival Center

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