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 31
... relevance of said past event ( s ) to the context of coding -- the " now " of the speaker or writer . The preterit , in contrast , appears when the event in hand is past but lacks the connection of relevance to the present . What is ...
... relevance of said past event ( s ) to the context of coding -- the " now " of the speaker or writer . The preterit , in contrast , appears when the event in hand is past but lacks the connection of relevance to the present . What is ...
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... relevance ; hence current relevance fails ultimately to have any explanatory power as a theory . 1 Proponents of the theory are not generally very worried about the fuzziness of relevance as an abstract concept , since they can offer ...
... relevance ; hence current relevance fails ultimately to have any explanatory power as a theory . 1 Proponents of the theory are not generally very worried about the fuzziness of relevance as an abstract concept , since they can offer ...
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... relevance " to the particular occasion of utterance . Yet it is true that even great real - world relevance , however defined , is not by itself sufficient to promote many examples to acceptability . There is no external measure of ...
... relevance " to the particular occasion of utterance . Yet it is true that even great real - world relevance , however defined , is not by itself sufficient to promote many examples to acceptability . There is no external measure of ...
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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