Los verbos de estado en la construcción de los planos narrativos en español como L2

Abstract

When a speaker produces narrative discourse; he/she makes a distinction between the events that move the time of the store forward: foreground; and the situations that set the scene of the store: background. This paper presents an analysis of narrative texts produced by Spanish native speakers and Spanish L2 advanced students; where the use of tense/aspect verbal morphology to distinguish grounding in narration is described. The analysis focused specifically on the use of state verbs with preterit and imperfect in order to identify the similarities and differences between texts in Spanish L1 and Spanish L2.