Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1972

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Resnick, Melvyn C.

Abstract

The Spanish verb is obligatorily inflected for aspect in the past tense: the speaker must indicate by his use of either a preterite or an imperfect form whether an action is perfective or imperfective. Because no such obligatory morphological distinction exists in English, the English-speaking student of Spanish may not always make the proper distinction between tense and aspect in the forms of the target language. The problem, then, is to teach the student to express the aspect of any past verbal action so that he will be able to choose correctly between the preterite and the imperfect. A contrastive analysis of the role of aspect in all tenses of the verb systems of English and Spanish is presented for the purpose of ultimately formulating the best possible set of rules for differentiating between perfective and imperfective past actions.

Extent

59 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13483

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