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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 36
Page 111
... specific analyses of the English tense - system as a whole , or at least those subparts which bear on our central issue . These analyses attempt to place each tense in its proper relation to the others in terms of an abstract semantic ...
... specific analyses of the English tense - system as a whole , or at least those subparts which bear on our central issue . These analyses attempt to place each tense in its proper relation to the others in terms of an abstract semantic ...
Page 190
... specific presupposition that the surface subject must refer to someone who is alive ( as Chomsky had it ) , but because the subject's being alive . is merely inferrable from the presupposition [ ' present possibility " ] of the sentence ...
... specific presupposition that the surface subject must refer to someone who is alive ( as Chomsky had it ) , but because the subject's being alive . is merely inferrable from the presupposition [ ' present possibility " ] of the sentence ...
Page 194
... specific time , we can claim that the meaning of the perfect is derivable from the fact that it is an embedded past . ( ibid.:15 ) If embedded Pasts " lose their ability to refer to a specific time , " this explains why embeddings are ...
... specific time , we can claim that the meaning of the perfect is derivable from the fact that it is an embedded past . ( ibid.:15 ) If embedded Pasts " lose their ability to refer to a specific time , " this explains why embeddings are ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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