Discourse Pragmatics and the Verb

Suzanne Fleischman, Linda R. Waugh

Contributors; 1 Introduction Suzanne Fleischman and Linda R. Waugh 2 The temporal structure of discourse: setting, change, and perspective Co Vet 3 Verb tense and point of view in narrative Suzanne Fleischman 4 Tense switching in Italian: the alternation between passato prossimo and passato remote in oral narratives Giulia Centineo 5 Multivalency: the French historical present in journalistic discourse Monique Monville-Burston and Linda R. Waugh 6 The statis of imperatives as discourse signals Béatrice Lamiroy and Pierre Swiggers 7 A contextual reconsideration of the Spanish –ra "indicative" Patricia V. Lunn and Thomas D. Cravens 8 Losing ground: a discourse-pragmatic solution to the history of –ra in Spanish Flora Klein-Andreu 9 The pragmatics of Spanish mood in complements of knowledge and acquisition-of-knowledge predicates Jorge M. Guitart 10 Verbs of cognition in spoken Spanish: A discourse profile Elizabeth G. Weber and Paola Bentivoglio; Index of subjects; Index of names