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Temporal reference: empirical and theoretical perspectives: converging evidence from English and Romance
Author
Grisot, Cristina
Director
Moeschler, Jacques
Defense Thèse de doctorat : Univ. Genève, 2015 - L. 839 - 2015/11/03
Abstract This thesis investigates the expression of temporal reference – the location of eventualities (states and events) in time – in natural languages by looking at four languages: English, French, Italian and Romanian. It is suggested that temporal reference is determined at the discursive level through a large variety of linguistic and pragmatic means. The current state of the art on temporal reference lacks of a comprehensive cross-linguistically valid model that holds for typologically different languages, which goes beyond language specificities and which permits consistent contrastive analyses. The present study aims at filling in this gap by proposing a model of temporal reference situated in-between Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Contrastive Analysis, Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation fields.
Keywords Temporal reference — Verbal tenses — Grammatical and lexical aspect — Pragmatics — Relevance Theory — Corpus-based analysis — Translation corpora — Experimental data — English — French — Italian — Romanian — Natural Language Processing — Machine Translation — Contrastive Analysis
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URN: urn:nbn:ch:unige-825839
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Faculté des lettres / Département de linguistique
Projects FNS: CRSI22_127510, 2010-2013
FNS: CRSII2_147653, 2013-2016
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(ISO format) 		GRISOT, Cristina. Temporal reference: empirical and theoretical perspectives: converging evidence from English and Romance. Université de Genève. Thèse, 2015. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:82583

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