solute tenses, even though the moment of speech is variable and constantly changes. The term situation covers events and states in the broad sense of those terms and they are generally signaled by the presence of a verb. In other cases, the temporal location of a situation cannot be defi...
In this section, we present our CHILDES corpus results on past tense formation in English, starting with the methodology and the overall results in Sect.2.1. For each error type we provide examples, focusing on redundant errors in Sect.2.2, periphrastic errors in Sect.2.3, and distributive er...
Comrie includes a third category, namely ‘absolute–relative’ tense, i.e., when topic time is located with respect to a reference point different from speech time, but the reference time is also located with respect to speech time, as in, e.g., the English pluperfect (‘past in the ...
Comrie includes a third category, namely ‘absolute–relative’ tense, i.e., when topic time is located with respect to a reference point different from speech time, but the reference time is also located with respect to speech time, as in, e.g., the English pluperfect (‘past in the ...
Comrie includes a third category, namely ‘absolute–relative’ tense, i.e., when topic time is located with respect to a reference point different from speech time, but the reference time is also located with respect to speech time, as in, e.g., the English pluperfect (‘past in the ...
2 The translator made a few changes in this passage: he chose not to mention an explosion, as in the original, but instead presented the event as a car crash. Excerpt (e) literally reads: 'in the end there has been someone making her car crash.' 3 The two authors do not say ...