Alexandra Vraciu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexandra Vraciu plays a role.
Articles
2015 Chapter 10. The simple present and the expression of temporality in L1 English and L2 English oral narratives: When form meets discourse The Acquisition of the Present, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 289–334 | Article
The simple/progressive aspectual contrast is fundamental in present-based narratives in English: the simple present encodes temporally sequenced events whereas the progressive creates a close-up effect and introduces a perspective “from within”, often associated with the subjective viewpoint of the… read more
2013 Exploring the upper limits of the Aspect Hypothesis: Tense-aspect morphology in the advanced English L2 variety Language, Interaction and Acquisition 4:2, pp. 256–290 | Article
This paper explores coalitions between tense-aspect morphology and the aspectual class of predicates in second language acquisition (the Aspect Hypothesis) on the basis of 36 oral narratives elicited with a picture book from French L1 adult learners of English. The observed distributional patterns… read more