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Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig is Professor and Chair of Second Language Studies at Indiana University. Her primary research interests are second-language temporality and tense-mood-aspect systems and interlanguage pragmatics. She has served as President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (2008) and former editor of Language Learning (2002-2005). Major publications include Themes in SLA Research (John Benjamins! 2006) and Interlanguage Pragmatics: Exploring Institutional Talk (Erlbaum! 2005). Klappentext This book explores the acquisition of tense and aspect by adult second language learners of nine target languages. The author focuses on the association of form and meaning in learners' emerging system of temporal expression. The book provides a survey and synthesis of studies from five perspectives: the meaning-oriented approach, acquisitional sequences, the aspect hypothesis, the discourse hypothesis, and the effect of instruction. In addition, original longitudinal and cross-sectional studies on the acquisition of English by the author illustrate each of the perspectives and explore the importance of research design and analysis in acquisition research. Zusammenfassung This book explores the association of form and meaning in the acquisition of tense and aspect by adult learners of nine target languages. The book provides a survey and synthesis of studies from five perspectives: meaning-oriented approaches! acquisitional sequences! the aspect hypothesis! the discourse hypothesis! and the effect of instruction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. The Study of Time Talk in Second Language Acquisition. Early Studies of Verbal Morphology. Phonetic Constraints. Investigating the Expression of Temporality. Methods of Research and Analysis. Overview of the Book. Chapter 2. Meaning-Oriented Studies of Temporality. Expressing Temporality. Pragmatic Means for Expressing Temporality. Lexical Means for Expressing Temporality. Comprehension of Verbal Morphology. Limitations of Lexical Expression. Morphological Means for Expressing Temporality. Multiple Means for Expressing Temporality. Two Examples. Study 1: Adverbials and the Acquisition of Simple Past Morphology. Study 2: adverbials and Morphology in Reverse-Order Reports. Chapter Summary. Chapter 3. The Emergence of Verbal Morphology. Tense-Aspect Morphology in European Languages. Tense-Aspect Morphology Related to past in English. The acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology. Longitudinal Studies of the Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology. Cross-Sectional Studies of the Acquisition of Tense-aspect Morphology. A Study of the Emergence to Tense-Aspect Morphology Related to Past in English. Method. Analysis and Results. Comparing Meaning-Oriented and Form-Oriented. Approaches. Chapter Summary. Chapter 4. The Aspect Hypothesis. The Aspect Hypothesis. In Primary Language Acquisition. In Secondary Language Acquisition. Grammatical and lexical Aspect. Investigations of the Aspect Hypothesis in Second Language Acquisition. The Spread of Perfective Past. The Spread of Imperfective Past. The Spread of Progressive. Overgeneralization of Progressive in States. Sample Study: the Distribution of Verbal Morphology in Learner Narratives. Assessing the Influence of Lexical Aspect Challenges to the Aspect Hypothesis. Chapter Summary. Chapter 5. The Role of Discourse. The Interlanguage Discourse Hypothesis. Narrative Analysis. Studies of L2 Temporality and Narrative Structure. A Cross-Sectional Study of Tense-Aspect in L2 Narratives. Comparing Theoretical Frameworks. Empirical Evidence in Support of the Discourse and Aspect Hypotheses. Integrating the Analysis. Other Discourse Contexts. Realis and Irrealis: The Imaginary in Narrative. Personal and Impersonal Narrative: The Case of "Personalized" Narratives. Conversational and Elicited Narratives. Chapter Summary. Chapter 6. The Influence of Instruction. E...
