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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... happened , or is presently happening , or has already happened , or happened long ago ; but we cannot identify starting or stopping points -- we cannot strictly answer the question " when ? " Examples are events like growing old getting ...
... happened , or is presently happening , or has already happened , or happened long ago ; but we cannot identify starting or stopping points -- we cannot strictly answer the question " when ? " Examples are events like growing old getting ...
Page 125
... happened , as if it occurred in the time he can call " present " or ' most recent past , " then the perfect is used , regardless of whether it happened today , yester- day , or the day before . ( p . 728 ) Of course the choice is not ...
... happened , as if it occurred in the time he can call " present " or ' most recent past , " then the perfect is used , regardless of whether it happened today , yester- day , or the day before . ( p . 728 ) Of course the choice is not ...
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... happened historically in other languages ? Is the preterit weakening , as it has generally toward the center of Europe , or growing stronger ? 6.6 . Where are we headed ? Though the current English opposition between preterit and ...
... happened historically in other languages ? Is the preterit weakening , as it has generally toward the center of Europe , or growing stronger ? 6.6 . Where are we headed ? Though the current English opposition between preterit and ...
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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