When-Clauses and Temporal StructureRoutledge, 2003 M09 2 - 300 pages Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and has been the focus of much attention in recent years. In this book, Declerck offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the conjunction when. |
Contents
1 INTRODUCTION | 1 |
2 A TYPOLOGY OF WHENCLAUSES | 7 |
3 THE TEMPORAL CONJUNCTION WHEN | 51 |
4 A MODEL OF THE ENGLISH TENSE SYSTEM | 64 |
5 WHENCLAUSES AND TEMPORAL STRUCTURE | 113 |
6 CANONICAL WHENCLAUSES AND THE EXPRESSION OF TEMPORAL RELATIONS | 151 |
7 SPECIAL RELATIVE TENSE USES IN CANONICAL WHENCLAUSES | 180 |
8 CANONICAL WHENCLAUSES ESTABLISHING A TEMPORAL DOMAIN | 196 |
9 THE INTERPRETATION OF CANONICAL WHENCLAUSES | 205 |
10 NARRATIVE WHENCLAUSES | 233 |
11 WHENCLAUSES OTHER THAN CANONICAL OR NARRATIVE WHENCLAUSES | 254 |
12 CONCLUSION | 293 |
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Common terms and phrases
absolute tense form actually Adv-RRCs adverbial WCs Aktionsart arrived canonical WCs case-specifying WCs central Chapter Colin Dexter common conditional perfect conditional tense config configuration conjunction epistemic modal establish a domain five o’clock free relative Full Situation Future Perspective System future tense going habitual-repetitive HC-situation HC-STO HC-TFS heterogeneous homogeneous imperfective aspect implicature includes t0 indefinite perfect indirect binding John John’s located means narrative WCs NP-RRC NRCs past domain past perfect past tense past time-sphere Perspective System form possible post-present domain pre-present domain Predicated Situation present domain present perfect Present Perspective System present tense preterite punctual reading relative clause relative tense form sector semantic shift of domain shift the domain sloppy W-simultaneity speaker specify subclause temporal interpretation temporal relations temporal structure temporally subordinated tense form expressing tense structure time-specifying TO-adverbial types of WC unbounded verb form W-posterior W-system WC-TFS WHEN-CLAUSES when/at when/by þonne