Coherence also involves the management of style; it consists of accuracy, clarity, originality, simplicity and fluency. To achieve a coherent paragraph the topic of the phrases must be tied, and in order to keep a logical relation it is important to pay attention to the verb tenses (Sierra,...
(The replace- ment would be optional, because whether this is done depends not on identity of expression but on identity of object, that is, again on real world context.) The statement that the generic determiner is "incompatible with the so- called 'perfect' verb tenses" (p. I60) is ...
Chapter Six Syntax (II) --- Phrase Structure Rules 0. Introduction i. Chapter 5 mentions that sentences may be studied in two ways: either statically or dynamically.ii. However, TG grammar claims that the static study of sentences only deals with one level of structure, that is, surface ...
In this book as well as in several articles (see Bibliography) he defined many grammatical categories: tenses, cases, the verbal morpheme led/ etc. The weakness of Poebels gram- mar, however, is perhaps due to the fact that he based his work on texts from different periods which cover a...
Bittner, M. (2011). Time and modality without tenses or modals. In R. Musan, & M. Rathert, (Eds.),Tense across languages(pp. 147–188). Tübingen: Niemeyer.http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/zliYmQxY/bittner11_tam.pdf. Bittner, M. (2012). Perspectival discourse referents for indexi...
Which tenses do authors use when describing procedures in methods sections (procedure-move)? To illustrate, Hyland and Tse, comparing abstracts written by novice and expert writers for use of the evaluative that in abstracts, showed that both novice and expert writers tend to use the that ...
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