The grammar of the english verb phrase part 122 pps

... variable verb complement see complement verb form 15Ϫ17, 19 verb of creation 298Ϫ300 verb of state see state verb verb phrase 12Ϫ13, 15, 20, 41Ϫ45, 47Ϫ52, 57Ϫ68, 77Ϫ78, 81 W W-anteriority 122, 126, ... 733Ϫ 734 situation time of the until-clause 407, 739Ϫ741 situation time of the when-clause 122, 143, 393, 638, 641, 643Ϫ661, 664Ϫ 667, 670Ϫ672, 675, 677Ϫ678, 681 Inde...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 00:20

... situation-template denoted by walk .The denotation of such a complex predicate constituent is determined in the first instance by the meanings of the verb and of the other components of the predi- cate constituent ... as consisting of a subject NP and a predicate constituent. The latter consists of the verb phrase (VP) and the optional adverbial(s), if any....

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... though the expression of grammaticalized habituality is restricted to verb forms involving one of the auxiliaries will, would or used to. 1.51.3 The third system of the verb phrase introduced in part ... However, apart from the fact that the nature of the subject NP may affect the interpretation of the actualization of a situation as homogeneous or not, i...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... may either coincide or overlap: one situation may have started at, before or after the beginning of the other situation, and either of them may have ended at, before or after the end of the other ... length of the corresponding full situation. Thus in Meg watched the elephant from six to eight, the temporal adverbial locates the situation time (the time of the pre...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... the situation time in the post-present. As noted in 2.13, the situation time is the time of the actualization of the predicated situation, not the time of anticipa- tion of that actualization.) 2.36 ... as consisting of two time-spheres. The dotted line in the middle of the time line is meant to represent the fact that there is felt to be a break between the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... past domain. The semantics of the absolute past tense is: The situation time is located in the past time-sphere (defined relative to t 0 )’; the semantics of 160 2. Towards a theory of tense and ... it relates the situation time of the bike having loads of gears to the situation time of Meg’s buying a bike. Specifically, it locates the having simultaneous to the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... unclear whether the judge- ment implicit in the adverb is attributable to the subject referent or to the speaker. 3.10.1 Constraint 1: Since the basic meaning of the present tense is location of a ... this time of the day / etc.}?’) In most of these examples the reference is to a regular pattern which results from a timetable repeating itself. The same is true of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... time of the predicated situation, the time of the full situ- ation and the time of the pre-present time zone. In section 5.6 we then provide an interim sum- mary of the core meaning of the present ... it. 212 5. The absolute use of the present perfect I. The semantics of the present perfect The present perfect locates the situation time in the pre-pre...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... on the up-to-now reading of the perfect 259 subsituations in the pre-present’, which allows the hypersituation to involve gaps in between the actualizations of the subsituations or to consist of ... constitution reading is that the speaker expresses the result of scanning the entire pre-pres- ent for situations actualizing within that period. Whether the result of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... of a period requires considering it from beginning to end. The situation of a 286 5. The absolute use of the present perfect As noted in 5.21.3, the temporal interpretation of the clause in the ... illustrate the following: (a) In spite of the fact that there is a situation of watching in process at t 0 , the present tense cannot be used in Standard English (wh...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20