[B-Greek] Greek narrative
Daniel Riaño
danielrr at eresmas.net
Mon Dec 22 13:12:17 EST 2003
All this from a functional perspective. It is a bit random, and not
very updated. Givón may be left as a last lecture:
Givón, T. (1987). Beyond foreground and background. In R. S. Tomlin
(Ed.), Coherence and grounding in discourse (pp. 175-188).
Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Hopper, P. J. (1979). Aspect and foregrounding in discourse. In T.
Givón (Ed.), Discourse and Syntax. New York: Academic Press.
Kalmar, I. (1982). Transitivity in Czech folk tale. In P. J. Hopper &
S. A. Thompson (Eds.), Studies in transitivity (pp. 241-259). New
York: Academic Press. --This is a sample work done in a small text,
following the principles of Hopper 1979
Martín-Asensio, G. (2000). Transitivity-based foregrounding in the
Acts of the Apostles : a functional-grammatical approach to the Lukan
perspective. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
Wallace, S. (1982). Figure and Ground: The interrelationships of
linguistic categories. In P. J. Hopper (Ed.), Tense-aspect: Between
semantics and pragmatics (pp. 201-223). Amsterdam - Philadelphia:
John Benjamins.
>I am interested in doing some studies on the use of tense in
>narrative material in the gospel. My particular interest is in
>estalishing what is in the foreground vs. background material based
>on tense. Are there any material that would be helpful?
>
>Sheldon R. Bryan
>
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