However, in order to answer this question, it turns out that a number of other more important
questions must be considered, such äs the nature of deixis. Thus, in a broader sense,
because of the interaction with other facets of the grammar of English, this question turns out
to be much more important. It is also important in another sense, namely that it forces the
linguist to sharpen bis concept of linguistic argumentation. A priori, there are at least two
reasons why one might think wasis in the past tense in (1): the first is because it has past …

One kind of Information that Speakers of a language want to be able to derive from a text in
that language, especially if it is a narrative, is the chronological structure of the text: when did
the various events referred to take place, both relative to one another and in reference to the
present moment? Many languages, one of them being English, have specific grammatical
categories, tenses, that relate directly to the time reference of events. One might therefore
imagine that the relation between the tenses occurring in a text and the Interpretation of that …

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Regional Meeting. Chicago Ling. Soc. Chicago, Ill. 1981, Num 17, pp 24-30 ; ref : 1 réf …