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ChronoNarratio-Graphen: Ein Modell chronologischer Beziehungen in Erzähltexten.

Langner, Peter; Marszk, Doris

In: Linguistische Berichte No. 147, pages 409-435. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1993.

Abstract: The present paper deals withchronological relations such as sequences, parallelisms and incidences (a punctual event meets with a background process) in narrative texts and their graphic representation based on a formalized model. These chronological relations are interesting insofar as if a given language has a verbal aspect, they may be expressed by means of verbal aspect only.

The main purpose of our formalized model, called the ChronoNarratio-Graph (which is based on Petri-Nets), is to capture the differences in the understanding of chronological relations in an aspect language text and its translation into a non-aspect language text. Thus, the ChronoNarratio-Graph serves as a tertium comparationis. The ChronoNarratio-Graph is conceived as an intensional model, and therefore it not only represents the pure chronological order of actions, but also distinguishes between the actors (persons and things), perspectives, fabula and sujet.

Keywords: linguistic Petri nets.


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