the grammar of the english tense system pdf
Grammar of the english verb phrase, the grammar of the english tense system, vol I
... required to 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 ... between the adverbial clause situation and the head clause situation. The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase Volume 1: The Grammar of the English Tense System A Comprehensive Analysis by Renaat ... 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...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 1 pdf
... Table of contents Acknowledgements V Table of contents VII Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Chapter 2. Towards a theory of tense and time 91 Chapter 3. The absolute use of the present tense 171 Chapter ... ANSI to ensure permanence and durability. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Declerck, Renaat. The grammar of the English tense system : a comprehensive analysis / by Renaat Declerck ... draft of one or more chapters. In alphabetical order they are: Griet Beheydt, Ilse Depraetere, Raphael Salkie, Elizabeth Traugott, Naoaki Wada, and Christopher Williams. The Grammar of the English...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 5 pdf
... would, which is the past tense form of will.) 1.15 The formation of the present tense The forms of the present tense of all verbs except be and have are homopho- nous with the stem of the verb (e. ... absolute tenses but the function of relative tenses. 1.19 Special uses of tenses 1.19.1 In modal sentences, some of the indicative tenses (viz. the past, the past perfect, the conditional tense and the ... In their default use these tense forms are absolute tense forms: they relate the time of the situation referred to directly to the temporal zero-point. However, the same forms can also relate the...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 12 pdf
... implicature of the past tense is due to the Gricean Maxim of Relation (better known as the Maxim of Relevance). Other things being equal Ϫ more specifically: if the clause is not couched in a piece of ... allow both readings: The miner walked through the tunnel inspecting the seam. This sentence may or may not be taken to mean that the miner reached the end of the tunnel. The interpretation is ... was in the library suggests that the proposition ‘John be in the library’ only applies in the past and not in the present, i. e. that the situation is no longer actualizing at the time of speech. 74...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 17 pdf
... different from the semantic structure of any other tense. The above view is consistent with the fact that the past tense, the present perfect tense and the present tense differ as to their compatibility ... different from that of the present tense or the past tense, we consider it to be a tense in its own right. The present perfect locates a situation in the 106 2. Towards a theory of tense and time not ... realizations of the future tense. However, 110 2. Towards a theory of tense and time The choice between locating a situation in the past and locating it in the pre-present is determined by whether the...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 2 doc
... forms 22 A. Tense 22 1.14 Introduction 22 1.15 The formation of the present tense 23 1.16 The formation of the past tense 23 1.17 The formation of the other tenses 24 1.18 The meanings of tenses: ... over- view of tense and two other areas of meaning that can be expressed by the use of verb forms in English and that interact with tense: the sys- tem of grammatical aspect and the system of mood ... introductory remarks 5 account for tense in English, rather than a comparative study of other analyses or a comparison of our analysis with the analyses of other authors. Because of this, unless a particular...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 3 docx
... the foundation proper of our description of tense in English. There is a brief discussion of what is meant by tense , with reference to the main issues surrounding the number and nature of tenses ... whether a clause refers to the performance of an action, the happening of an event, the development of a process or the existence of a state, we can say that the clause in question refers to the actualization ... situation time can be related by a tense. The elements of the framework of the tense theory used in this book are outlined here. These include, centrally, the notions of ‘time spheres’, ‘time zones’,...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 4 docx
... The point is that the time of orientation to which they relate the time of their situation does not have to be the temporal zero-point. It is criterial of tensed forms that they encode information ... concern- ing the relation of the time of a situation to the temporal zero-point t 0 (which is usually the time of speech Ϫ see 2.4), whether that relation is direct (as in absolute tenses) or indirect ... infinitives are tensed in the same way as the present tense, the present perfect, the past perfect etc. are tensed: infinitives are tenseless Ϫ see 1.10.4. However, it is true that the present and perfect...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 6 potx
... describe the situation as characteristic of the referent of the subject NP over a certain period of time. English has a special form to express habituality in the past: the semi-auxiliary used to. The ... 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’ ... meaning, i. e. to focus on the middle of the situation or on some (punc- tual or durative) part of the middle of the situation. In English, progressive aspect does exist, since there is a progressive...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 7 pps
... 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 ... utterance) a referent. The meaning (or denotation) of the noun phrase results from a combination of the lexical meaning of boy and the grammatical meaning of the definiteness marker the. The referent (which ... irrelevant whether a clause refers to the performance of an action, the happening of an event, the existence of a state, etc. we can say that the clause in question refers to the actualization of a situation. In...
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