You are here

FAU Collections » FAU Research Repository » FAU Theses and Dissertations

CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPTS OF ASPECT IN THE VERB SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH AND SPANISH

Download pdf | Full Screen View

Date Issued:
1972
Summary:
The Spanish verb is obligatorily inflected for aspect in the past tense: the speaker must indicate by his use of either a preterite or an imperfect form whether an action is perfective or imperfective. Because no such obligatory morphological distinction exists in English, the English-speaking student of Spanish may not always make the proper distinction between tense and aspect in the forms of the target language. The problem, then, is to teach the student to express the aspect of any past verbal action so that he will be able to choose correctly between the preterite and the imperfect. A contrastive analysis of the role of aspect in all tenses of the verb systems of English and Spanish is presented for the purpose of ultimately formulating the best possible set of rules for differentiating between perfective and imperfective past actions.
Title: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPTS OF ASPECT IN THE VERB SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
106 views
33 downloads
Name(s): PRUCE, SUSAN MARILYN.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Resnick, Melvyn C., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1972
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 59 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The Spanish verb is obligatorily inflected for aspect in the past tense: the speaker must indicate by his use of either a preterite or an imperfect form whether an action is perfective or imperfective. Because no such obligatory morphological distinction exists in English, the English-speaking student of Spanish may not always make the proper distinction between tense and aspect in the forms of the target language. The problem, then, is to teach the student to express the aspect of any past verbal action so that he will be able to choose correctly between the preterite and the imperfect. A contrastive analysis of the role of aspect in all tenses of the verb systems of English and Spanish is presented for the purpose of ultimately formulating the best possible set of rules for differentiating between perfective and imperfective past actions.
Identifier: 13483 (digitool), FADT13483 (IID), fau:10328 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.
Subject(s): Spanish language--Aspect
English language--Aspect
Spanish language--Grammar, Comparative--English
English language--Grammar, Comparative--Spanish
Held by: Florida Atlantic University Libraries
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13483
Sublocation: Digital Library
Use and Reproduction: Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder.
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Host Institution: FAU
Is Part of Series: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections.