The grammar of the english verb phrase part 37 pot

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 6 potx

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 6 potx

... Introduction pairing of a meaning and a particular form of the verb. In English the second of these two elements is lacking when ingressive meaning is expressed. 1.22.3 The same is true where the expression of egressive’ ... describe the situation as characteristic of the referent of the subject NP over a certain period of time. English has a special form to ex...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 9 pot

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 9 pot

... of situation that is characteristic of the referent of the subject NP over an extended period of time Ϫ see 1.23). This static interpretation is due to the use of the nonprogressive form of the ... example, the features [( dynamic] and [( agentive] help to deter- mine the possibility of using the verb phrase in the progressive form. The distinction [( tel...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 15 pot

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 15 pot

... linguistically represents the time of the ‘working hard’ situation as anterior to the time of the saying situation and which is therefore a relative tense. Finally, part VI provides a summary of the chapter. 2.1 ... the temporal relation between the time of actualization of a situation and some other time, which may be the temporal zero-point (which is normally th...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 19 potx

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 19 potx

... is not the time of the full situa- tion: it is the time of the predicated situation, i. e. that part of the time of the full situation that coincides with the situation time of said. The claim ... So, even if the time of the full situation of Bill brooding does not completely coincide with the time of the full situation of John believ- ing, and the...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 37 pot

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 37 pot

... just met John in the street. I have this minute heard that the deal is off. This kind of present perfect sentence is rather special because of the nature of the adverbial. Adverbs like just refer ... section. V. More on the up-to-now reading of the perfect 251 V. More on the up-to-now reading of the perfect In this section we go into a number of characteristics of...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 38 potx

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 38 potx

... is conceived of as the time of the trip, the speaker can be said to be concerned with the situational constitution of the pre-present zone.) In each of these three cases (a)Ϫ(c), the speaker ‘looks ... ‘measuring’ 256 5. The absolute use of the present perfect separating two times. (In this case the times in question are the time of the accident, which is als...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 40 potx

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 40 potx

... at the end of the pre-present may include t 0 is not expressed by the perfect, which only expresses that the situation time of the hypersituation is contained in 270 5. The absolute use of the ... ‘situationwise’. The speaker thus focuses on the situational con- stitution of the pre-present zone and not only on the temporal location of a situation on the time...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 46 pot

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 46 pot

... not part of the topic of the clause, in the sense that it is not ‘what the speaker is talking about’ but forms part of what the speaker is saying about the topic, then for some speak- ers the ... the constitution of the pre-present, we speak of the unmarked 314 5. The absolute use of the present perfect 5.38.17 The semantics of the present perfect...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 47 potx

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 47 potx

... concerned with NOW or THEN can be clear from the way the sentence is used in context or from particular constitu- ents of the sentence. The impact of particular types of temporal adverbials was referred ... selec- tion of the one or the other of the two tenses, see chapter 12. In the present chapter, we first have a look at the central notion of ‘actualization fo...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 48 pot

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 48 pot

... look back over the pre-present Ϫ usually the question is in the second person and the pre-present is the period of the 6.4 The present perfect vs the preterite in wh-questions 325 all the examples ... presupposes the truth of ‘You sold x cars’, which implies actualization focus on the time of the selling. 6.4 The present perfect vs the preterite in wh-questio...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 58 pot

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 58 pot

... the existence of this type of shift of temporal perspective will be adduced in 9.9Ϫ12.) 8.26 Argument 4: the incompatibility of a punctual adverbial with a relative preterite The claim that there ... shorter than the time of the situation which is located at it. Our analysis therefore predicts the unacceptability of He said he wrote a long letter on the simultaneity...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 59 pot

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 59 pot

... unanchored punctual time-specifying adverbials that are added to the description of a dura- 17. The only exception is when the adverbial in the subclause is a pro-form for the adverbial in the head clause, as ... establishing a domain of its own. (The different adverbials make it clear that the central orientation time of the domain in question is interpreted as W-anter...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 60 potx

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 60 potx

... clause of the until-clause: the situation time of the arrival cannot be represented as T-posterior to the situation time of decided. The only pos- sibility is for the situation time of the until-clause ... is that the situa- tion time of an until-clause cannot be bound indirectly (by means of the use of the conditional tense) by the situation time which als...

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 66 potx

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 66 potx

... whether the binding orientation time is the central orientation time of the domain or an- other orientation time in the past domain (i. e. the central orientation time of a subdomain inside the ... use the relative past tense (preterite), irrespective of whether the binding orientation time is the central orientation time or an- other orientation time in the domain....

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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 67 potx

The grammar of the english verb phrase part 67 potx

... continue the active life, which was the only kind she knew. [The stairs of the old house defeated her.] (www) [The only problem was that they didn’t have the lightbulbs, the truck to take them there ... to the use of the present tense of be to for official arrangements regarding the future (see 7.15), the past tense of be to can be used to refer to a past official...

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