The grammar of the english verb phrase part 114 ppt
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 114 ppt
... to
all the members of the set. For example, in I cleared away the glasses after the
party, the reference to the set of glasses is (by implicature) interpreted as refer-
ence to all the glasses of the ... with the implicit
orientation time (lexicalized by the time in the paraphrase ‘before the time
at which’).
Implicit pre-present: said of the length of the...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 10 pptx
... make the situation durative.)
One after the other, the ramblers reached the top of the hill. (The idea of repetition
is induced by the plurality of the subject NP and the duration-implying phrase ... ashes.]
The fact that the transition cannot form part of the ‘middle part of the situa-
tion referred to by the progressive form is due to the fact tha...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 13 ppt
... a telic
VP, but since the progressive form only refers to a portion of the middle part
of the actualizing situation, the sentence does not represent the actualization
of the situation as bounded, ... for us, the VP will be that part of the predicate constituent that does not
contain optional adverbials (the predicate constituent of a clause being every-
thing bu...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 16 ppt
... Apart from the fact that they do not involve a particular inflectional
tense morpheme, the present perfect and the future tense are often excluded
from the English tense system on the basis of ... relation
they express is or is not that of anteriority. The same is true of the other
nonfinite forms, viz. infinitives and gerunds. (In other words, verb forms are
only tens...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 21 ppt
... some
middle part of the Adv-time.
(b) coincidence: the contained orientation time coincides with the Adv-time.
In other words, the boundaries of the Adv-time coincide with the bound-
aries of the contained ... Thursday.” (The
adverbial specifies the time as well as the duration of the predicated situation. Be-
cause the adverbial gives the information that i...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 22 pptx
... Paris.]” (The
situation time is that part of the time of the speaker’s being in Rennes that coincides
with t
0
. The adverbial until six indicates the duration of the remaining part Ϫ the
part following ... hours’.)
2.31.2 There are a couple of cases in which the situation time coincides with
the time of the full situation. In these cases a pure duration adv...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 27 ppt
... homogeneous), the pres-
ent tense does not say anything about the length of the (actualization of the)
full situation in the real world. It can therefore be used irrespective of whether
the full situation ... formulaic
usage may use the present tense to refer to the reproduction rather than to the original
176 3. The absolute use of the present tense
II. The pr...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 29 ppt
... received, the source of the news (e. g.
the telling or the hearing) can be referred to with the help of a verb in the
nonprogressive present tense: I hear you’re going to buy a new car.
3.12.6 The ... time is punctual is due to the fact that the durative
(actualizations of the) situations (of being in the process of a making a
wheelchair or of being in the...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 33 ppt
... concern the relation between the time of
the ‘full situation’ (see 2.16.1) and t
0
. Such a temporal W-interpretation de-
pends in part on the semantics of the tense (i. e. on the location of the ... and the time of the predicated situation
(ϭ situation time). In these examples there is nothing triggering the marked
interpretation that the situation time is onl...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 41 pptx
... reading)
In these examples, the length of the pre-present period is to be inferred from
the pragmatics of the context. In the following, it is indicated by the bifunc-
tional adverbial for the last ... 276 5. The absolute use of the present perfect
on the irritation of being kept waiting, of standing around doing nothing (or
rather on the minimal amount of su...