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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828028203321

Autore

Schmiedtova Barbara

Titolo

At the same time .. : the expression of simultaneity in learner varieties / / by Barbara Schmiedtova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2004

ISBN

1-283-39651-3

9786613396518

3-11-019748-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Studies on language acquisition ; ; 26

Disciplina

400

Soggetti

Language acquisition - Research

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"SOLA, Studies on language acquisition"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Simultaneity in native speaker and learner language -- Chapter 2. The notion simultaneity and its categorization -- Chapter 3. The expression of simultaneity in English, German and Czech -- Chapter 4. Experimental part -- Chapter 5. Coding and Analysing data -- Chapter 6. Results: native speakers -- Chapter 7. Results: learners -- Chapter 8. Some explanatory factors -- Chapter 9. Conclusions -- Back matter

Sommario/riassunto

The study endeavors a detailed and systematic classification of linguistic simultaneity expressions. Further, it aims at a well described survey of how simultaneity is expressed by native speakers in their own language. On the basis of real production data the book answers the questions of how native speakers express temporal simultaneity in general, and how learners at different levels of proficiency deal with this situation under experimental test conditions. Furthermore, the results of this study shed new light on our understanding of aspect in general, and on its acquisition by adult learn