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First published in 1990, this collection investigates grammatical
categories associated with the verb as they are used by speakers
and writers in real discourses and texts. Focusing on tense,
aspect, mood, and voice in French, Spanish, and Italian, each
chapter underscores the importance of context in our understanding
of how grammatical categories work. Above and beyond their basic
'grammatical functions', categories of the verb are shown to
operate in such capacities as structuring information in discourse,
establishing point of view in a text, and creating textual
cohesion. Importantly, this volume reflects the crucial role
discourse-pragmatics factors play in our interpretation of the
meanings of categories of grammar.
First published in 1990, this collection investigates grammatical
categories associated with the verb as they are used by speakers
and writers in real discourses and texts. Focusing on tense,
aspect, mood, and voice in French, Spanish, and Italian, each
chapter underscores the importance of context in our understanding
of how grammatical categories work. Above and beyond their basic
'grammatical functions', categories of the verb are shown to
operate in such capacities as structuring information in discourse,
establishing point of view in a text, and creating textual
cohesion. Importantly, this volume reflects the crucial role
discourse-pragmatics factors play in our interpretation of the
meanings of categories of grammar.
In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together
theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new
light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and
universal device for translating our experiences into language.
Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the foundation for all
narratological study, since it offers insight into how narratives
are constructed in their most primary context: everyday speech. She
uses a linguistic model designed for "natural" narrative to
explicate the organizational structure of "artificial" narrative
texts, primarily from the Middle Ages and the postmodern period,
whose seemingly idiosyncratic use of tenses has long perplexed
those who study them. Fleischman develops a functional theory of
tense and aspect in narrative that accounts for the wide variety of
functions-pragmatic as well as grammatical-that these two
categories of grammar are called upon to perform in the linguistic
economy of a narration.
Questions about the development of the Romance future have engaged
scholars since Thielmann's classic statement of 1885, yet a century
later a number of the fundamental issues remain unresolved.
Professor Fleischman suggests that this is in part due to the
narrow sense in which the question has traditionally been
formulated - as simply the history of the future-tense' slot in the
grammar - and in part the result of the investigative approach,
which until recently has taken little account of important advances
in general linguistics in the field of diachronic syntax. The
present volume examines 'future' as a conceptual category and
discusses the various strategies that have been used to map this
conceptual category on to grammar in Romance. The data are taken in
the main from Western Romance languages, particularly French, and
frequent parallels are drawn with English. To account for the
evolution of the future, Professor Fleischman proposes a network of
interrelated, often cyclical developments in syntax and semantics,
and seeks to place the individual diachronic events within a
broader framework of syntactic typology and universal patterns of
word-order change.
Questions about the development of the Romance future have engaged
scholars since Thielmann's classic statement of 1885, yet a century
later a number of the fundamental issues remain unresolved.
Professor Fleischman suggests that this is in part due to the
narrow sense in which the question has traditionally been
formulated - as simply the history of the future-tense' slot in the
grammar - and in part the result of the investigative approach,
which until recently has taken little account of important advances
in general linguistics in the field of diachronic syntax. The
present volume examines 'future' as a conceptual category and
discusses the various strategies that have been used to map this
conceptual category on to grammar in Romance. The data are taken in
the main from Western Romance languages, particularly French, and
frequent parallels are drawn with English. To account for the
evolution of the future, Professor Fleischman proposes a network of
interrelated, often cyclical developments in syntax and semantics,
and seeks to place the individual diachronic events within a
broader framework of syntactic typology and universal patterns of
word-order change.
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