Tense

Description

Bernard Comrie introduces readers to the range of variation found in tense systems across the languages of the world.

Get the book

Amazon.com

Search the book

eBay.com

Search the book

Similar books

• 

  Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad)

  By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary

  By challenging our long-held assumptions about anxiety, this book provides a concrete framework for how to reclaim it for what it has always been—a gift rather than a curse, and a source of inner strength, joy, and ingenuity.

• 

  Time and the Verb: A Guide to Tense and Aspect

  By Robert I. Binnick, Robert I Binnick

  This guide provides the reader with a broad perspective of grammar, from classical Greek and Latin to the latest proposals in formal semantics.

• 

  The Grammar of the English Tense System: A Comprehensive Analysis

  By Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed, Bert Cappelle

  pretation: John smokes a pipe, Bill can be very clever, She {will / would} often go to church, Karen used to like toads see also 1.23). In English, there are only two aspects that are systematically expressed by special verb markers, ...

• 

  Time, Tense, and Reference

  By Quentin Smith, Aleksandar Jokic

  I am also indebted to the editors of this book for close critical comments on an earlier draft . 1. M. Tooley , Time , Tense , and Causation ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1997 ) . 2. Tooley , Time , Tense , and Causation , chap .

• 

  The Grammar of the English Tense System: A Comprehensive Analysis

  4.9.1 A (full) situation which is located anterior to t0 is a bygone situation. (See further below). There are two absolute tenses that may be used to refer to such a situation: the absolute past tense and the present perfect tense.

• 

  Tense and Aspect in Korean

  By Sung-Ock Sohn

  ... tense indexing and binding , the two most significant syntactic notions in the present study . As discussed in previ- ous chapters , I maintain that there are only two ... Tense Indexing and Binding Two forms of tense -Ess: R-expression.

• 

  Tense, Attitudes, and Scope

  By T. Ogihara

  The book presents the view that the semantic contribution of tense is made in relation to structurally higher expressions (the `relative tense theory') and argues against the view that tenses are all indexicals.

• 

  The Development of Past Tense Morphology in L2 Spanish

  By M. Rafael Salaberry

  Nuria Lopez-Ortega, Howard Grabois and Anita Pavlenko were always willing to help with data collection or to discuss any facet of the research process. Finally, Maria José Tort helped me with all aspects of the project since the pilot ...

• 

  Present Tense: A Poetics

  By Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig

  that deny temporal meaning to the present tense but only mention them as background for the debate about the temporality of the present tense. In her Die Verbalkategorien des Deutschen [The Verbal Categories of German], Elisabeth Leiss ...

• 

  Tense and Aspect in Informal Welsh

  By Bob Morris Jones

  2.2.3 Non-concurrent situations In this section, we shall look at examples which describe situations which are not in periods of time which are traditionally associated with the tenses which the examples contain.