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The tense system in English relative clauses : a corpus-based analysis /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Depraetere, Ilse, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1996, ©1995.
Colección:Topics in English Linguistics TiEL.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Definition of the concepts bounded-unbounded and telic-atelic
  • 1.1. Definition
  • 1.2. Tests to distinguish unboundedness from boundedness and atelicity from telicity
  • 1.3. Factors influencing (un)boundedness and (a)telicity
  • 1.4. Zero-boundedness and zero-telicity
  • 1.5. Left boundedness and right boundedness
  • 1.6. General conclusion
  • Chapter 2. Declerck (1991a): tense in discourse (part 1)
  • 2.1. Declerck (1991a): basic concepts
  • 2.2. Methodology and aim
  • Chapter 3. The expression of temporal relations in past sector RCs.
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. (W- )anteriority in past sector (N)RRCs
  • 3.3. Simultaneity in past sector (N)RRCs: relative and absolute past tenses?
  • 3.4. W-posteriority in past sector (N)RRCs
  • 3.5. General conclusion
  • Chapter 4. The expression of (W- )anteriority in pre-present sector RCs
  • 4.1. The use of tense in the pre-present sector RCs: Declerck (1991a)
  • 4.2. Constraints on the expression of (W- )anteriority in pre-present sector RCs
  • 4.3. The tense system in the pre-present sector: some modifications
  • 4.4. RRCs and NRRCs: different tense system?
  • 4.5. General conclusion.
  • Chapter 5. The expression of (W- )anteriority and (W- )simultaneity in post- present sector RCs
  • 5.1. The use of tense in the post-present sector: Declerck (1991a)
  • 5.2. RRCs vs. NRRCs: different tense system?
  • 5.3. Factors determining interpretation of verb forms in RRCs
  • 5.4. General conclusion
  • Chapter 6. Difference in contextual effects between mutually substitutable verb forms
  • 6.1. General procedure vs. implementation of general procedure
  • 6.2. Prediction vs. fact
  • 6.3. Explicit location in time
  • explicit indication of temporal relation
  • 6.4. Resultativeness.
  • 6.5. Gradual development vs. quick succession
  • 6.6. Recent vs. distant situation
  • Chapter 7. The principle of unmarked temporal interpretation
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. The PUTI (Declerck 1991a): theory
  • 7.3. The PUTI in other works
  • 7.4. The PUTI for embedded clauses (Declerck 1991a): examples
  • 7.5. The PUTI ((a)-part) and RCs
  • 7.6. General conclusion
  • Chapter 8. Choice of binding TO in RCs
  • 8.1. TO for (N)RRC situations
  • 8.2. (In)direct binding in (N)RRCs
  • General conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.