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A Comparative Study of Tense between " Dayi Jan Napoleon" and "Don Quixote" Novels [PDF]
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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English future tense revisited [PDF]
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]
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
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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A proposal to deal with French tenses in the frame-work of Discourse Representation Theory is presented, as it has been implemented for a fragment at the IMS. It is based on the theory of tenses of H. Kamp and Ch. Rohrer.Instead of using operators to express the meaning of the tenses the Reichenbachian point of view is adopted and refined such that the
Kurt Eberle, Walter Kasper
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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]
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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The Enigma of The Turkish Morpheme –(y)AcAk: A Disquisition on Tense-Aspect-Modality Interpretations
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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Past tense in children with focal brain lesions [PDF]
In this study, 22 children with early left hemisphere (LHD) or right hemisphere (RHD) focal brain lesions (FL, n ¼ 14 LHD, n ¼ 8 RHD) were administered an English past tense elicitation test (M ¼ 6:5 years).
Konstantinopoulou, Paul +4 more
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Perspective and the future-in-the-past
The paper investigates the future-in-the-past (FiP) as in Peter would (later) see the Fujiyama. FiP can convey an outlook on events that, as the speaker knows, took place later (“objective sense”).
Regine Eckardt
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Quelques réflexions à propos de olim
The aim of this paper is to propose a hypothesis on the linguistic operation brought about by olim. A corpus-based approach shows that this adverb in association with the past, present, and future tenses marks a rupture with nunc and creates a distance ...
Guillaume Gibert
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