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Tense as a Grammatical Category in Sinitic: A Critical Overview
Languages, 2023 Sinitic languages are very often described as tenseless, since they are generally seen as lacking ‘true’ grammatical markers of tense: thus, the interpretation of time reference relies on other factors, such as aspect, modal verbs, and the use of time ...
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia
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Actuality and fake tense in conditionals
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 Sabine Iatridou (2000) and Katrin Schulz (2014) defend accounts of the past tense in subjunctive conditionals according to which the past tense has a modal reading that excludes the world of utterance or some set of epistemically possible worlds. I argue
John Mackay
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Future in Jowshaqani, the form and function [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 While most new Iranian languages do not have a separate construction to express the future time, Jowshaqani a central Iranian language in northern Isfahan shows a triple construction for future time: a near future referring to immediate future and future
Esfandiar Taheri
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Sentence Reading: Do We Make Use of Orthographic Cues in Homophones? [PDF]
, 2000 Starting from the finding that currently phonological models of visual word processing predominate, we examined what happened when important morphological information is disclosed in the orthography but not in the phonology.
Brysbaert, Marc +2 more
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Temporal deixis in early child Romanian [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2012 This paper investigates the contrastive use of tense-aspect inflections in early childRomanian. It focuses on the use of the prezent, perfect compus and the periphrastic futuremorphologies. It finds evidence of the ability to inflect a significant number
Ioana Stoicescu
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2019 This paper has one main goal: to provide a first description of the tense-aspect system of Mengaka. The paper indicates that Mengaka shows various tenses (past tenses, a present tense, a future tense) and aspects (perfective, habitual, progressive ...
Eliane Sonkoue Kamdem
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Processing of regular and irregular past tense morphology in highly proficient second language learners of English: a self-paced reading study [PDF]
, 2012 Dual-system models suggest that English past tense morphology involves two processing routes: rule application for regular verbs and memory retrieval for irregular verbs (Pinker, 1999).
Marinis, Theodoros, Pliatsikas, Christos
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1984 This paper examines the different properties of what we have termed "auxiliary focus": the interaction between focus and the semantic features of tense. aspect, mood. and polarity.
Larry M. Hyman, John R. Watters
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A Comparative Study of Tense between " Dayi Jan Napoleon" and "Don Quixote" Novels [PDF]
ادبیات تطبیقی, 2023 Introduction Comparative studies, in addition to showing the overlap between culture and literature, can lead to the identification of national literature as much as possible and reveal the position of each work in comparison with its international ...
Arezoo Sabzevar Ghahfarokhi +1 more
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From Display to Labelled Proofs for Tense Logics [PDF]
, 2018 We introduce an effective translation from proofs in the display calculus to proofs in the labelled calculus in the context of tense logics. We identify the labelled calculus proofs in the image of this translation as those built from labelled sequents ...
A Chagrov +14 more
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