Background
Fleischman, Suzanne was born on October 25, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Edward and Reva Ruth (Ganansky) Fleischman.
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In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language. Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the foundation for all narratological study, since it offers insight into how narratives are constructed in their most primary context: everyday speech. She uses a linguistic model designed for "natural" narrative to explicate the organizational structure of "artificial" narrative texts, primarily from the Middle Ages and the postmodern period, whose seemingly idiosyncratic use of tenses has long perplexed those who study them. Fleischman develops a functional theory of tense and aspect in narrative that accounts for the wide variety of functions—pragmatic as well as grammatical—that these two categories of grammar are called upon to perform in the linguistic economy of a narration.
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Questions about the development of the Romance future have engaged scholars since Thielmann's classic statement of 1885, yet a century later a number of the fundamental issues remain unresolved. Professor Fleischman suggests that this is in part due to the narrow sense in which the question has traditionally been formulated - as simply the history of the 'future-tense' slot in the grammar - and in part the result of the investigative approach, which until recently has taken little account of important advances in general linguistics in the field of diachronic syntax. The present volume examines 'future' as a conceptual category and discusses the various strategies that have been used to map this conceptual category on to grammar in Romance. The data are taken in the main from Western Romance languages, particularly French, and frequent parallels are drawn with English. To account for the evolution of the future, Professor Fleischman proposes a network of interrelated, often cyclical developments in syntax and semantics, and seeks to place the individual diachronic events within a broader framework of syntactic typology and universal patterns of word-order change.
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researcher French and Romance philology educator
Fleischman, Suzanne was born on October 25, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Edward and Reva Ruth (Ganansky) Fleischman.
Bachelor, University Michigan, 1969. Certified language competency, University Lisbon, Portugal, 1970. Master of Arts, University California, Berkeley, 1971.
Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1975.
Lecturer Spanish,, Mills College, Oakland, California, 1974-1975; assistant professor, associate professor French and Romance philology, University of California, from 1975; assistant professor French and Romance philology, University of California, Berkeley, 1978-1980; associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1980-1986; professor, University of California, Berkeley, since 1986.
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Member Modern Language Association (executive committee), Linguistic Society of America, International Society for History Linguistics (executive committee 1990-1995), International Pragmatics Association.