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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... indicate " short duration , " " temporal limitation , " " punctuality , " " completion , " " inception , " " result " ( not to forget " telicness " ) , while the imperfective indicates iteration , " " durativity , " " conation ...
... indicate " short duration , " " temporal limitation , " " punctuality , " " completion , " " inception , " " result " ( not to forget " telicness " ) , while the imperfective indicates iteration , " " durativity , " " conation ...
Page 97
... indicates only that the time of the coming is later than the time of Tom's speaking . The reasoning here is sufficiently ... indicate " earlier to " the moment of coding , and thus behave differently from included preterits . ) Included ...
... indicates only that the time of the coming is later than the time of Tom's speaking . The reasoning here is sufficiently ... indicate " earlier to " the moment of coding , and thus behave differently from included preterits . ) Included ...
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... indicate that a state of affairs prevailed throughout some interval stretching from the past into the present ( Universal ) : I've known Max since 1960 . to indicate the existence of past events ( Existential ) : I have read Principia ...
... indicate that a state of affairs prevailed throughout some interval stretching from the past into the present ( Universal ) : I've known Max since 1960 . to indicate the existence of past events ( Existential ) : I have read Principia ...
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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