Date: 01-Mar-2007 From: Juan Zamorano <juanrafaelzmyahoo.es> Subject: La Generación de Tiempo y Aspecto en Inglés y Español: Un estudio funcional-contrastivo general; Generating Tense and Aspect in English and Spanish: A functional-contrastive analysis
Institution: Universidad Complutense Madrid
Program: Estudios lingüísticos y literarios de lengua inglesa
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2006
Author: Juan Rafael Zamorano
Dissertation Title: La Generación de Tiempo y Aspecto en Inglés y Español: Un estudio funcional-contrastivo general; Generating Tense and Aspect in English and Spanish: A functional-contrastive analysis
Linguistic Field(s):
Computational Linguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
This thesis offers a corpus-based contrastive analysis of the tense and aspect systems of English and Spanish. The corpora employed were the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA) for Spanish and the British National Corpus (BNC) for English, and the theoretical framework used in the analysis of data was that of the Systemic-Functional Grammar. The results of the analysis were applied to the design of linguistic resources for the automatic generation of tense and aspect in English and Spanish texts. These linguistic resources were developed with the grammar development environment KPML.