Tense and aspect in Romance languages / / edited by Dalila Ayoun, M. Rafael Salaberry

• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, PA, : J. Benjamins, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 316 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 440/.045
• Soggetto topico: Romance languages - Tense; Romance languages - Aspect; Second language acquisition
• Altri autori: AyounDalila <1963-> SalaberryM. Rafael
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the contributors -- The development of L2 tense-aspect in the Romance languages -- 1. The acquisition of tense-aspect morphology in the Romance languages -- 1.1. The problem space -- 1.2. Defining and delimiting the concept of aspect -- 2. Theoretical approaches to the analysis of aspect in L2 acquisition -- 2.1. Pragmatic factors: Non-morphological marking of past tense aspect -- 2.2. Semantic factors: The Lexical Aspect Hypothesis -- 2.3. Contextual factors: The Discourse Hypothesis -- 2.4. Input-based factors: The Distributional Bias Hypothesis -- 2.5. Cognitive processing factors: The Default Past Tense Hypothesis -- 2.6. Syntactic factors: The UG-Minimalist Hypothesis -- 3. Towards a comprehensive model of tense-aspect development -- 3.1. Classification of lexical aspectual classes -- 3.2. Overlap in theoretical predictions -- 3.3. Conflating lexical and grammatical aspect -- 3.4. Research design factors -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- The acquisition of perfective and imperfective morphology and the marking of discourse grounding in Catalan -- 1. Tense and aspect in Catalan -- 1.1. The Catalan verbal system -- 1.2. Tense -- 1.3. Grammatical aspect -- 2. Discourse grounding: Foreground and background -- 3. Distribution of morphology and discourse grounding -- 3.1. The discourse hypothesis -- 3.2. Research regarding the relationship of verbal morphology and discourse structure -- 3.3. L2 research in the acquisition of verbal morphology and discourse grounding -- 4. The study -- 4.1. Participants -- 4.2. Tasks and procedure -- 4.3. Data analysis -- 4.4. Results -- 4.5. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix: Transcription codes. ; The acquisition of tense and aspect in L2 French from a Universal Grammar perspective -- Introduction -- 1. Tense and aspect in French and English -- 1.1. Tenses in French and English -- 1.2. Aspect in French and English -- 2. Tense/aspect and minimalism -- 3. Selected literature review -- 4. Learnability issues -- 5. The study -- 5.1. Participants -- 5.2. Procedure -- 5.3. Results of the pre-test -- 5.4. Results of the personal narratives -- 5.5. Results of the cloze task -- 6. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Appendix A -- Morphological encoding by lexical class and group -- Appendix B -- Summary of L2 minimalist studies -- Italian tense-aspect morphology in child L2 acquistion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tense-aspect in Italian -- 2.1. The passato prossimo -- 2.2. Lexical aspect and auxiliary selection in Italian -- 2.3. The imperfetto -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1. Participants -- 3.2. Data collection procedure -- 4. Analyses -- 4.1. Across-category analysis -- 4.2. Within-category analysis -- 4.3. Summary -- 5. Discussion -- Notes -- Evidence for transfer of knowledge of aspect from L2 Spanish to L3 Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Past tense aspectual contrasts in Portuguese-Spanish and English -- 3. Tracking the development of past tense morphology -- 3.1. The (important) role of lexical semantics in L2 development -- 3.2. A default marker of past tense -- 3.3. The effect of three research design factors -- 3.4. Past tense marking on statives: Incomplete acquisition? -- 4. The present study -- 4.1. Subjects -- 4.2. Procedure and materials -- 4.3. Operational tests of lexical aspect -- 5. Data analysis -- 6. Discussion -- 6.1. Potential explanatory factors -- 6.2. A unified account -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- From empirical findings to the teaching of aspectual distinctions -- Introduction. ; 1. The 'problem space' of Romance aspect -- 1.1. Linguistic complexity -- 1.2. Reliability -- 1.3. Metalanguage -- 1.4. L1/L2 contrast -- 1.5. Frequency -- 1.6. Redundancy -- 1.7. Saliency -- 2. Pedagogical principles derived from SLA research -- 2.1. Developmental stages -- 2.2. Visual perception and viewpoint aspect -- 2.3. Task and genre effects on tense-aspect production -- 3. Focusing learner attention on aspectual forms in context -- 3.1. Processing instruction and structured input -- 3.2. Output processing: Dictogloss -- 3.3. Input enhancement -- 3.4. Recasts -- 3.5. Task-essential language -- 4. Pedagogical applications of discourse analysis -- 5. Some illustrative materials -- 6. Conclusion -- Note -- Appendix -- Towards a comprehensive model of the acquisition of L2 tense-aspect in the Romance languages -- 1. Tense/aspect differences and learnability implications -- 2. Summary of empirical findings from this volume -- 2.1. Chapter 2: L3 Catalan -- 2.2. Chapter 3: L2 French -- 2.3. Chapter 4: L3 Italian -- 2.4. Chapter 5: L3 Portuguese -- 3. Critical review of empirical findings -- 3.1. Chapter 2: L3 Catalan -- 3.2. Chapter 3: L2 French from a minimalist perspective -- 3.3. Chapter 4: L3 Italian -- 3.4. Chapter 5: Spanish/Portuguese -- 4. Towards a comprehensive model of tense-aspect acquisition -- 4.1. Determinant factors and processes in tense-aspect marking -- 4.2. Developmental stages -- 4.3. Assessing the generalizability of the comprehensive model -- 5. The relevance of a developmental model on a pedagogical model of tense-aspect acquisition -- 5.1. The effect of instruction on tense-aspect marking -- Notes -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series Studies in Bilingualism.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume presents a state-of-the-art descriptive and explanatory analysis of the second language development of Romance tense-aspect systems. It contains new experimental data from adult French, Catalan, Portuguese learners, and Italian children learners. Standing research questions are addressed and pedagogical implications for foreign language classrooms are proposed arguing that there are possible commonalities in the instructional sequences of tense-aspect development in Romance languages. The first chapter presents an overview of current theoretical approaches and a summary of empirical findings. The following four chapters introduce new empirical data from a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., the Aspect Hypothesis, the UG/Minimalist framework). Chapter 5 proposes practical pedagogical approaches for the foreign language classroom based on empirical findings. The last chapter summarizes and discusses these findings in order to start elaborating a more comprehensive model of the development of tense-aspect marking in the Romance languages.
• Titolo autorizzato: Tense and aspect in Romance languages
• ISBN: 1-282-15664-0; 9786612156649; 90-272-9435-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810832503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in bilingualism ; ; v. 29.