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The Enigma of The Turkish Morpheme –(y)AcAk: A Disquisition on Tense-Aspect-Modality Interpretations
Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 This paper investigates how future temporal reference is established in the presence of the Turkish morpheme –(y)AcAk, a widely debated element in the linguistic literature that is traditionally labeled as a future tense marker.
Halil İbrahim İskender
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, 2020 Nature - Humans - Past - Future - Presence - Absence These familiar terms are the stepping stones of thought that went into my thesis work. While some may pair these words together as dichotomies, I concentrate on the balancing act that exists between
Troyer, Denise
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English future tense revisited [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2018 Tense is the typical grammatical marker of the semantic category of temporality. However, there is rarely a clear-cut distinction among temporal, aspectual and modal meanings.
Radovanović Aleksandra M.
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Analyzing Verbs in the Discussion Section of Master's Theses Written by Iranian Foreign Language Learners [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2019 This study reports on the way nonnative Iranian writers make use of verbs in the discussion section/chapter of their master theses in the field of English Language Teaching. Although verbs have been studied extensively in academic writing, there has been
Farzaneh Khodabandeh, Ahmad Kasir
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L’expression du futur en créole haïtien
Études Créoles, 2022 This article discusses the different (modal) values of the future morphemes ap, pral and a(va) in Haitian Creole. Taking available semantic assumptions as a starting point— namely, that ap expresses certainty, a(va), uncertainty, and pral, temporal ...
Moles Paul
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Positional Effects on the Characterization of Ejectives in Waima’a [PDF]
, 2008 This paper presents results from an ongoing investigation into stop consonants in Waima’a, focusing on the issue of tense v. lax ejectives. Sources tend to describe ejectives in a given language as either tense or lax; however ejectives in Waima'a, do ...
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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The origins of the Romance analytic passive : evidence from word order [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter argues that despite formal resemblances, Latin perfect tense BE-periphrases of the type amatus sum ‘I was loved’ are not the historical source of Romance present tense passives like Italian sono amato and French je suis aimé (both meaning ‘I
Danckaert, Lieven
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The Hausa perfective tense-aspect used in wh-/focus constructions and historical narratives: a unified account [PDF]
, 2006 In this paper I revisit and elaborate some of the ideas I outlined in the earlier paper, concentrating on the semantic characteristics of the paired Perfective tense-aspects in a major (universal) discourse context—spontaneously-produced past-time ...
Jaggar, Philip J.
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, 2016 Our focus in this chapter is the semantics of tense, one of the main devices for encoding time in language. The grammatical category of tense is used to locate a situation or event in time, typically in interaction with aspect. When tense relates the speaker's temporal focus, what is normally called the reference time, to the speech time, we have ...
Depraetere, Ilse, Salkie, Raphael
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