Present temporal reference and aspect in English
Imperfect Aspect in English and Indonesian Verbs
... imperfect aspect in English and Indonesian ...this aspect, which frequently appears in various English texts for junior and senior high school students in the current Indonesian ...this ...
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A contrastive study of aspect in Japanese and English
... The purpose of this thesis is twofold: 1) to analyze the aspect systems of Japanese and English; and 2) to make suggestions for the effective teaching of aspect t[r] ...
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Tense and Aspect in English and Kiluba: The Role of Suffixation and Prosody
... the English language and in other languages but has hardly tackled the problem of tone, a suprasegmental feature, in determining tense or aspect in Bantu ...and aspect have been discussed, there is ...
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Dominant concepts of English lullabies in the cultural linguistic aspect
... of English lullabies in the linguocultural ...of English lullabies, presented in authentic folklore texts, was ...the English language in the preparation of translators in Russian universities and in ...
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Contrasting tense and aspect in English and Chinese: A corpus based perspective
... using English and Chinese ...situation aspect than previous ...situation aspect in a more structured way and provide a clearer account of the composition of situation ...
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A corpus based approach to tense and aspect in English Chinese translation
... to present an activity in its entirety, the perfectivity needs to be marked ...In English, when the progressive aspect combines with tense, the past progressive, present progressive and future ...
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The Interpretation of Tense and Aspect in English
... Thus, the interpretation of each sentence involves a number of relevant times: the beginning and end of the event described by the main verb for all sentences, the[r] ...
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Picking Reference Events from Tense A Formal, Implement able Theory of English Tense Aspect Semantics Trees:
... We propose a simple structure called a tense tree (or a set of connected tense trees) as a basis for interpreting tense-aspect constructions and some time adver[r] ...
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Pragmatic Aspect of Phraseological Units in the English Language
... «To assert» is more intense than «to suppose», that’s why in order to achieve the illocutionary point of supposition, expressed by an adverb «probably» which is generally used «to s[r] ...
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On the interpretation of aspect and tense in Chiyao, Chichewa and English.
... Chapter two explores the parameters for the interpretation of mainly aspect and probably any other "covert" grammatical category which might be said not to "exist" overtl[r] ...
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Sentence comprehension of event structure in English and Japanese : an evaluation of the interaction between grammatical aspect and lexical aspect
... 淳は/ 昨日/ 二時間/ 彼の部屋で/ 眠った。/ Gloss: Atsushi-Top/ yesterday/ for {12/2} hours/ in his room/ {sleep-tei-ta/ sleep-ta}./ English Translation: ‗Atsushi was sleeping/slept in his room for 12/2 hours yesterday.‘ Filler ...
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Tense and Aspect Constructions Among Arabic L1 Learners of English
... the present progressive, in that the construction requires two transformations to move from the simple past to the past ...the present progressive saw a higher rate of copula deletion than substitution of a ...
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The Present Perfect and Definite Temporal Adverbials: Reference Grammars and Corpus Evidence
... time reference represents one of the notorious areas of English grammar, and the present perfect (in its standard form realized as have + V–en, henceforth PP) in particular seems to represent an ...
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Tense, Aspect and Temporal Homogeneity
... the temporal trace of the particular ...and English, we have to compare the meaning of English progressive forms to ongoing interpretations conveyed by Romance Tempora ...
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Alyawarr children's variable present temporal reference expression in two, closely related languages of Central Australia
... 5.5 Accounting for the variation: Factor groups and factors Now that I have established what data is excluded from analysis on definitional grounds, and prior to that outlined how the three main variants operate in ...
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The Investigation of Mandarin Aspect: With Special Reference to the Ba-Construction
... I am indebted to my friends for their companionship, their understanding and their help. I would like to thank Chen-Ju Chen, Chien-Yang Huang, Hsiu-Hung Chen, Tai- Jung Lu and You-Chen Jhang for their contribution to the ...
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How and Where do People Fail with Time: Temporal Reference Mapping Annotation by Chinese and English Bilinguals
... in temporal infor- mation annotation. One important temporal relation distinction that human beings make is the temporal reference dis- tinction based on relative positioning between the ...
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Events, discourse representations and temporal reference
... the English original before a wider public today are in large part ...the present version for publication because I hope that this may help to straighten out a misunderstanding of which I have seen a ...
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Segmenting Temporal Intervals for Tense and Aspect
... The present section links that choice to aspect, stepping from a fluent ϕ to a set L of strings of finite sets of fluents, without requiring that L hold at every seg of every interval satisfying ...of ...
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Variation in tense and aspect, and the temporal interpretation of complement clauses
... In connection with the categorical vs. gradable nature of these parameters, it is interesting to note that not all −SoT languages with obligatory tense marking behave like Japanese, but that some have been reported to ...
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