Similarly, present tenses shift to past if they are reported by a past-tense verb: She said she liked me (reporting: I like you.) This pattern is called backshift, and is likely to cause problems of consistency at KS3. Is would really a past-tense verb? The word would is the past ...
If a synthetic form that combines perfective aspect and present tense is grammatically possible at all, it gives rise to the so-called 'present perfective paradox' (Malchukov 2009, 2011; De Wit 2016; Koss et al. 2022), triggering a shift in interpretation, resulting, for example, in a ...
More recently, Velázquez (2019) has also documented “low ethnolinguistic vitality” of Spanish in a less urban community, with a similar pattern of the language being maintained at the community level but with families struggling to maintain the Spanish language as their children shift to ...
Today, not everyone who identifies as Pomak is also a speaker of Pomak, as a strong language shift is taking place in each country toward the locally socially dominant language. Adamou (2011) is the first study to refer to nominal tense in Pomak, discussing evidence from a variety spoken ...
When that happens, the shift is clearly due to discourse pragmatic reasons: the PST.PRF is often a clear indication directed at the addressee that a narrative mode of discourse is in force, whereas the PRS.PRF points to a currently relevant past event that is topical at the Speech time. ...