Tense and Aspect in English Infinitives This article investigates the temporal and aspectual composition of infinitival complementation structures in English. I show that previous classifications... S Wurmbrand - 《Linguistic Inquiry》 被引量: 97发表: 2014年 The Interpretation of Temporal Relations in ...
2. The acts of a court of justice ought to be in the present tense; as, "praeceptum est," not "preaceptum fuit;" but the acts of, the party may be in the preterperfect tense, as "venit, et protulit hic in curia quandum querelam suam;" and the continuances are in the pret...
Tense and Aspect in English Infinitives This article investigates the temporal and aspectual composition of infinitival complementation structures in English. I show that previous classifications... S Wurmbrand - 《Linguistic Inquiry》 被引量: 98发表: 2014年 Temporality: Universals and Variation In ...
three verb tenses There are in the English language: Past, Present, and Future. These tenses are divided into four aspects: The Simple, Progressive, Perfect, and Perfect Progressive. The following tables explain all three tenses in each aspects: The "Simple Aspect" Tenses Examples The simple as...
The class of true modal verbs in English is usually understood to include auxiliary verbs conveying possibility and necessity (including predictive future) that lack non-finite morphological forms; from a syntactic perspective, these verbs ...
extraction, locality, selection, and interpretation, the book argues that the relevant construction types all involve surface variants of "infinitives in disguise"; infinitivals that agree with the matrix clause in tense/mood/aspect. Argumen... Anna-Lena Wiklund - The Syntax of Tenselessness: Tense...
in terms of how they interact with tense and aspect, as well as with lexical aspectual classes (aktionsarten). For example, Zagona (1990) notes that when the complement of an epistemic modal is stative, the eventuality-time (or the interval of ...
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All three groups are infinitives. Think back to our previous lesson when we talked about infinitives. Infinitives are the original form of the verb. In English infinitives are the verbs that have the auxiliary “to” before the verb: to walk, to read, to open, etc. ...
optional infinitivesThe Aspect-First Hypothesis observes that children tend to associate the lexical semantics of predicates with grammatical aspect marking and tense, and children with SLI are known to have problems with tense. A theoretical question raised by these facts is whether the SLI difficulty...