Note
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Member of
Contributors
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued
1972
Description
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.
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.
Language
Type
Form
Extent
59 p.
Subject (Topical)
Identifier
13483
Additional Information
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.
FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Date Backup
1972
Date Text
1972
Date Issued (EDTF)
1972
Extension
FAU
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IID
FADT13483
Issuance
monographic
Organizations
Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
Person Preferred Name
PRUCE, SUSAN MARILYN.
Graduate College
Physical Description
59 p.
application/pdf
Title Plain
CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPTS OF ASPECT IN THE VERB SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH AND SPANISH
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Origin Information
1972
monographic
Boca Raton, Fla.
Florida Atlantic University
Physical Location
Florida Atlantic University Libraries
Place
Boca Raton, Fla.
Sub Location
Digital Library
Title
CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPTS OF ASPECT IN THE VERB SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH AND SPANISH
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CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPTS OF ASPECT IN THE VERB SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH AND SPANISH