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Aspect and temporal relations. Experimental studies on Spanish as a native and a second language

Luigi Palumbo
https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0703

This thesis investigates how native and second language (L2) speakers establish temporal relations in Spanish, integrating formal linguistic theory with experimental evidence. Part I examines temporal interpretation in complex (two-clause) sentences such as Mary said that John was sick. In this so-called ‘past-under-past’ construction, John’s illness may be understood as simultaneous with or anterior to Mary’s report. Competing accounts have attributed the availability (or lack thereof) of these readings either to Grammatical Aspect, contrasting perfective and imperfective aspect forms in the embedded clause, or to Lexical Aspect, distinguishing between stative and eventive predicates. The studies reported in this part of the thesis provide a systematic experimental test of these accounts with adult native speakers of Spanish. This language explicitly marks perfective and imperfective aspect across both stative and eventive predicates, offering an optimal setting for disentangling the respective contribution of Grammatical and Lexical Aspect to temporal interpretation. Part II turns to L2 acquisition, investigating L1 English learners of Spanish. The experiments presented here conceptualise the acquisition task as the reassembly of perfective and imperfective features, and introduce temporal interpretation in complex sentences as a novel testing ground of the extent to which learners have acquired the ordering function of Grammatical Aspect. By assessing interpretation in both simple (one-clause) and complex sentences within the same participants, this work further examines learners’ ability to distinguish aspect meanings across syntactic structures, providing a comprehensive account of the challenges that Grammatical Aspect poses in L2 acquisition.

Mehrsprachigkeit im deutsch-französischen Kontext / Le plurilinguisme dans le contexte germano-français

Johannes Müller-Lancé & Eric Castagne (Hrsg.)
https://doi.org/10.25521/maconf.2026

Ausgewählte Beiträge einer internationalen Tagung an der Universität Mannheim, 19.-20.6.2024, organisiert im Rahmen der Forschungsgruppe Mehr­sprachigkeit und Interkomprehension der Universitäten Reims Champagne-Ardenne und Mannheim.

Der hier vorliegende Sammelband vereint Beiträge des zweiten gleichnamigen Kolloquiums, das wieder in Zusammenarbeit der beiden Herausgeber im Rahmen der Kooperation der Universitäten Reims Champagne-Ardenne und Mannheim organisiert und durchgeführt wurde und sich wiederum Fragen des grenz­überschreitenden Sprach- und Kulturkontakts stellte.

In einem ersten Schwerpunkt widmet sich der Band dem Status des Deutschen und Französischen im jeweiligen Nachbarland sowie dem konkreten grenz­überschreitenden Kommunikationsbedürfnis in Gesundheits- und Sicherheits­kontexten. Den zweiten Schwerpunkt bilden Beiträge zum (bedrohten) Unterricht der jeweiligen Nachbarsprache bzw. zur Nutzung von KI-Anwendungen im Französischunterricht.

Tense and Aspect in Multilingual Romance Language Education

Camilla Bardel, Anna Bergström, Anna Gudmundson & Francesco Vallerossa (Hrsg.)
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111347998

This book brings together multilingualism, tense and aspect, and Romance language education. The chapters present theoretical and empirical research on the teaching and learning of French, Spanish, Italian, and Catalan in different educational contexts with data collected in Europe, the Americas, and Asia from learners with various linguistic backgrounds. With its clearly delineated sections on learning, teaching, and sociolinguistic variation, the volume makes an important contribution to the rich field of inquiry of second and third languages that is of significance to researchers, teachers, and learners alike.