Martin Becker
Professor of Romance Linguistics
Department of Romance Studies
Universitätsstr. 41
50937 Cologne
Germany
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.313
Phone: +49-(0)221-470-2832
Fax: +49-(0)221-470-6734
Email: martin.becker1
uni-koeln.de
Recent publications
- Einführung in die spanische Sprachwissenschaft. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2013.
- Welten in Sprache. Zur Entwicklung der Kategorie «Modus» in romanischen Sprachen. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. 2014 (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 386).
- Becker, Martin & Jakob Egetenmeyer: "A prominence-based account of temporal discourse structure", in: Lingua 214 (2018), 28-58.
- "O Pretérito Composto (PPC) na história do português no Brasil", in: Ilaro, Rodolfo/Basso, Renato (eds.): História Semântica do Português Brasileiro (Series: História do português brasileiro, ed. by Ataliba T. de Castilho (Coordenador geral). Editora Contexto: São Paulo, 38 Seiten (in press).
Main research topics
- Tense, aspect and mood in a synchronic and diachronic perspective
- Modality and its realisation in language
- Theory of language change
- History of the Language Sciences: history of linguistic theories
Research project
Project C02 "Tense and aspect in discourse" as a part of SFB 1252 Prominence in Language
Office hour
Office hour during winter semester 2018/19: Tuesday, 16:30-17:30.
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