Readers’ Reaction to Tense Switching in Hrafnkels saga freysgoða: Combining Corpus-Linguistic and Experimental Methods

Abrupt switches between different tenses (past-to-present, present-to-past) are known from oral narratives and medieval literature in Romance languages, but there is little consensus about their function and interpretation. In this study, we combine corpus-linguistic tools with experimental methods...

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Main Authors: Viola Miglio, Stefan Th Gries
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 2017-06-01
Series:International Journal of Literary Linguistics
Online Access:https://journals.linguistik.de/ijll/article/view/100