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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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The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World
, 1994 Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar.
Joan L. Bybee +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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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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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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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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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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