... temporaladverbials 589Chapter 13. Adverbial when-clauses and the use oftenses 635Chapter 14. Adverbial before-clauses and after-clauses 685Glossary 759References 831Index 833Topics in English ... Renaat.The grammar of the English tense system : a comprehensiveanalysis / by Renaat Declerck in cooperation with Susan Reedand Bert Cappelle.p. cm. − (The grammar of the Englishverb phrase ; ... a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin.Țȍ Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI to ensure permanence and durability.Library of Congress...
... forms.Such tense forms have the form of 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, thepast ... cutThe listof strong verbs is to be found in most standard grammars and diction-aries.61.17 The formation of the other tenses 1.17.1 Many people hold that there are only two tenses in English, ... oftenses have different semantic structures.1.18.5 Apart from this, it should be noted that tenses that are basically usedas absolute tenses can sometimes fulfil the function of relative tenses. ...
... duration adverbials1.46.1 A formal test to distinguish between bounded and nonbounded clausesis the addition of a particular type of duration adverbial. Anoninclusiveduration adverbial(answering ... durationadverbial. If in an hour measures the temporal distance between a contextually giventime of reference and the beginning of John’s speaking, it is not an inclusive durationadverbial and ... structure of a particu-lar situation is grammatically represented, but rather with a distinction be-tween two possible ways of representing or interpreting a particular instance of actualization of...
... future actualization of a situation toa present state.(c) The prototypical realization of the future tense is by means of will / shall.A secondary, less prototypical realization of the future tense ... associated with the lexical verb Ϫ is actually referred to.Such verb forms establish a future domain but are not future tense forms. We call themfuturish forms. ‘Be going to ϩ verb may be a futurish ... choice, not only of tempo-ral location of a situation relative to another time, but also of point of view(temporal focus). Predictability will can be explained similarly as a result of putting the...
... is not) expressed by tenses Here we have discussed absolute and relative tenses, semantically expressedand pragmatically implied temporal relations, and special uses of tenses. 2.54.1 As we ... zero-point’).2.56 Types of temporal adverbials2.56.1 We have distinguished three types of adverbial that give temporal in-formation. Time-specifying adverbials (e. g. at six o’clock) temporally locatean ... point of one full situation coincides in time withany point of another full situation: strict coincidence of the times of the entiresituations is not necessary.2.55 Special uses of tenses 2.55.1...
... at night. Normal Verb He sees something others cannot see. For example ghosts, aura, a vision of the future, etc.to smell:• The coffee smells good. Non-Continuous Verb The coffee has a good ... Normal Verb I am sniffing the flowers to see what their smell is like.to taste:• The coffee tastes good. Non-Continuous Verb The coffee has a good taste.• I am tasting the cake. Normal Verb I ... Non-Continuous Verb The table is heavy.• She is weighing herself. Normal Verb She is determining her weight.Some Verbs Can Be Especially Confusing:to be:• Joe is American. Non-Continuous Verb Joe...
... the study of tense; chapters 3 to 11 gradually build up a picture of the function oftenses in discourse in English; finally, chapters 12 to 14provide a more detailed analysis of some of the interactions ... aware of the factI. General introductory remarks 7COB-W Cobuild Corpus ofEnglish (UK, written)LOB the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen CorpusSEU the Survey ofEnglish Usage Corpus of Written English. TLS ... expressions of habitual aspect (which is a pairing of form and meaning)11. (Non)habitual aspect is a form of grammatical aspect because it is expressed by means of the form of the verb (viz . the use of...
... formation of the present tense 231.16 The formation of the past tense 231.17 The formation of the other tenses 241.18 The meanings of tenses: expressing temporal relations 251.19 Special uses oftenses ... remarks 5account for tense in English, rather than a comparative study of other analysesor a comparison of our analysis with the analyses of other authors. Because of this, unless a particular ... most of them, in order to avoidpossible misunderstandings.Part III (ϭ sections 1.14Ϫ1.27) is a brief over-view of tense and two other areas of meaningthat can be expressed by the use of verb...
... the study of tense; chapters 3 to 11 gradually build up a picture of the function oftenses in discourse in English; finally, chapters 12 to 14provide a more detailed analysis of some of the interactions ... remarks 7COB-W Cobuild Corpus ofEnglish (UK, written)LOB the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen CorpusSEU the Survey ofEnglish Usage Corpus of Written English. TLS a corpus of articles that appeared in ... proper of our description of tense in English. There is a brief discussion of what is meant by ‘tense’, with reference to themain issues surrounding the number and nature oftenses in English...
... a verb form’. A verb form consists either of a verb (in the form of a participle or infinitive) plus one or more auxiliaries(e. g. will see, would have seen) or of a (usually inflected) verb ... expressed by other lexical items. Phrasal verbs (particle verbs), espe-cially, provide a rich source of contributions to the expanding lexical stock of English, as testified by recent creations ... full verbs like want are on the way to becoming auxiliaries in that theyhave a contracted form (I wanna go to Italy), which is characteristic of auxiliaries, not of full verbs. The full verbs...