The English Perfect: Tense-choice and Pragmatic InferencesNorth-Holland Publishing Company : sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier North-Holland, 1978 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 279 pages |
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Page 47
... speaker is communicating in good faith , the hearer will generate whatever ideas he deems necessary to fill in unstated details or make unstated connections so as to make the speaker's utterances accord with the conversational maxims ...
... speaker is communicating in good faith , the hearer will generate whatever ideas he deems necessary to fill in unstated details or make unstated connections so as to make the speaker's utterances accord with the conversational maxims ...
Page 48
... speaker is talking about his wife , then the hearer will conclude that the speaker is deliberately flouting the maxims for some reason or another : either he is being cagey , or perhaps someone else is listening who isn't supposed to ...
... speaker is talking about his wife , then the hearer will conclude that the speaker is deliberately flouting the maxims for some reason or another : either he is being cagey , or perhaps someone else is listening who isn't supposed to ...
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... speaker certainly ' ' belongs ' ' -- may be subdivided mentally into various subparts to which the speaker is attending ( " earlier today , " " during the lunch hour , " etc. ) . A similar understanding is expressed by Brinkmann ( 1906 ...
... speaker certainly ' ' belongs ' ' -- may be subdivided mentally into various subparts to which the speaker is attending ( " earlier today , " " during the lunch hour , " etc. ) . A similar understanding is expressed by Brinkmann ( 1906 ...
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actually adverbs Aktionsart Allen ambiguity analysis anteriority appears argued argument aspect aspectual atelic auxiliary Bauer chapter clause co-occurrence consider context contrast CR theory current relevance definite Defromont deixis discussed distinction Diver earlier EB theory Einstein embedded past English perfect equivalent examples existential experiential expressions fact fect function future gone grammar Huddleston ibid ID theory identified imperfective indefinite indicate inferences interpretation iterative Jespersen John language later lexical linguistic markedness McCawley McCawley's meaning Middle English morpheme normally noun phrases opposition participle particular past event past perfect past tense perfect tense perfective aspect period periphrastic possible Poutsma pragmatic predicates present perfect present tense preterit and perfect preterit/perfect problem reading recently reference point Reichenbach relation relationship seems semantic sense sentence simple simultaneous speaker speaking specific stative structure syntactic telic temporal tense forms types underlying unmarked usage verb forms verb phrase Visser XN theory yesterday Zandvoort