Wolfgang Klein – författare

This book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express time, but linguists have tended to concentrate on tense and aspect, rather than discourse principles. Klein considers the four main ways in which language expresses time - the verbal categories of tense and aspect; inherent lexical features of the verb; and various types of temporal adverbs. Klein looks at the interaction of these four devices and suggests new or partly new treatments of these devices to express temporality.

This book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express time, but linguists have tended to concentrate on tense and aspect, rather than discourse principles. Klein considers the four main ways in which language expresses time - the verbal categories of tense and aspect; inherent lexical features of the verb; and various types of temporal adverbs. Klein looks at the interaction of these four devices and suggests new or partly new treatments of these devices to express temporality.

This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the principles that underlie second language acquisition for the light these throw on how human language processing functions in general. Moreover, it is only through an understanding of these principles that foreign language teaching can become maximally effective. In the first part of his book, Wolfgang Klein provides a critical assessment of the state of the art at the time. The second part, 'from the learner's point of view', is devoted to four central problems which anyone learning a second language (either through everyday communication or in the classroom) is faced with, and whose solution constitutes the acquisition process. This accessible introduction provides students of linguistics and applied linguistics and anyone concerned with foreign language teaching with a real understanding of the fundamental issues in the field.

This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the principles that underlie second language acquisition for the light these throw on how human language processing functions in general. Moreover, it is only through an understanding of these principles that foreign language teaching can become maximally effective. In the first part of his book, Wolfgang Klein provides a critical assessment of the state of the art at the time. The second part, 'from the learner's point of view', is devoted to four central problems which anyone learning a second language (either through everyday communication or in the classroom) is faced with, and whose solution constitutes the acquisition process. This accessible introduction provides students of linguistics and applied linguistics and anyone concerned with foreign language teaching with a real understanding of the fundamental issues in the field.

Time is the most fundamental category of human cognition and action, and all human languages have developed many devices to express it. These include verbal categories, such as tense and aspect, but also adverbials, particles, and principles of discourse organisation. This book is intended as a tutorial for the study of how time is expressed in natural languages. Its chapters take the reader through a number of foundational issues, such as the various notions of time and the various means to express it; other chapters are devoted to more specific questions, such as the acquisition of time, its modelling in formal semantics and in computational linguistics, or how its expression can be empirically investigated.

Time is the most fundamental category of human cognition and action, and all human languages have developed many devices to express it. These include verbal categories, such as tense and aspect, but also adverbials, particles, and principles of discourse organisation. This book is intended as a tutorial for the study of how time is expressed in natural languages. Its chapters take the reader through a number of foundational issues, such as the various notions of time and the various means to express it; other chapters are devoted to more specific questions, such as the acquisition of time, its modelling in formal semantics and in computational linguistics, or how its expression can be empirically investigated.

The volume presents an essential selection collected from the essays of Wolfgang Klein. In addition to journal and book articles, many of them published by Mouton, this book features new and unpublished texts by the author. It focuses, among other topics, on information structure, the expression of grammatical categories and the structure of learner varieties.

Die in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze - erschienen zwischen 1978 und 2008 in der Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik - beweisen, dass die Erforschung der menschlichen Sprache und ihrer verschiedenen Hervorbringungen eine spannende Sache sein kann. Den Beiträgen, die auf oft überraschende Weise, aber stets sorgfältig begründet, eine Fülle von Themen behandeln, ist eines gemeinsam: Es geht ihnen um die Beschaffenheit der menschlichen Sprache, der gesprochenen oder geschriebenen Texte, die mit ihrer Hilfe hervorgebracht werden, und der Traditionen und Denkweisen, die von in diesen Texten getragen werden und sie tragen.

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes fokussieren methodische und theoretische Probleme in sprachwissenschaftlichen Bereichen, in denen Norbert Dittmar in seiner wissenschaftlichen Laufbahn gearbeitet hat. Es werden methodische und korpuslinguistische Fragen diskutiert; in der Soziolinguistik wird der Bogen von Kontaktanzeigen in der DDR über ‘Türkendeutsch’ bis zur Migrationssituation in Italien gespannt; Fragen des Sprachgebrauchs und der Sprachbeschreibung reichen von Deixis bis zur Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion. Aus der Zweitspracherwerbsforschung werden zentrale Themen wie Lexikerwerb, Wortstellung, Finitheit, Interrogation, Topik oder Aktionalität sowie Befunde zum Altersfaktor diskutiert, wobei neben dem Erwerb anderer europäischer Sprachen insbesondere der Erwerb des Deutschen als Zweit- und Fremdsprache Berücksichtigung findet.