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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... ambiguous with respect to its orientation : It was believed that John admires / admired Spiro Agnew ( section 1.4 ... ambiguity of He will lose everything he has at present ( Huddleston 1969 : 796 ) . 26- The ability of now to " shift ...
... ambiguous with respect to its orientation : It was believed that John admires / admired Spiro Agnew ( section 1.4 ... ambiguity of He will lose everything he has at present ( Huddleston 1969 : 796 ) . 26- The ability of now to " shift ...
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... ambiguity ? According to Lakoff's ( 1970a ) test for ambiguity versus vagueness , the latter example is vague , not ambiguous : we can say John has completed his encyclopedia and so has Harry without implying that either both had help ...
... ambiguity ? According to Lakoff's ( 1970a ) test for ambiguity versus vagueness , the latter example is vague , not ambiguous : we can say John has completed his encyclopedia and so has Harry without implying that either both had help ...
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... ambiguity is considerably less , but Shakespeare's language , which in so many other ways is close to the present - day pattern , surprises us with : Macduff : Your royal father's murdered . Malcolm : 0 , by whom ? ( Macbeth , 11 , iii ...
... ambiguity is considerably less , but Shakespeare's language , which in so many other ways is close to the present - day pattern , surprises us with : Macduff : Your royal father's murdered . Malcolm : 0 , by whom ? ( Macbeth , 11 , iii ...
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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