The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier EnglishWalter de Gruyter, 11. 7. 2011 - Počet stran: 447 The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. |
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25 Different thematic functions of the present perfect and the preterite | 45 |
26 Aspectual character | 50 |
27 Tense logic | 54 |
35 Summary | 229 |
Chapter 4 The perfect and the preterite in the history of English | 237 |
43 Contextual analysis of the present perfect and the preterite in the history of English | 253 |
44 Summary of historical investigation and attempted explanation | 339 |
Chapter 5 Summary and conclusion | 349 |
Notes | 363 |
References | 381 |
Appendix I Symbols used in quotations from text categories in CONTCORP made up of transcripts of spoken sources | 400 |
28 Comparison with other theories of the opposition between the present perfect and the preterite | 66 |
29 Summary | 76 |
Chapter 3 The use of the perfect and the preterite in presentday English | 79 |
33 Contextual analysis of the present perfect and the preterite in CONTCORP | 94 |
34 The elicitation test | 215 |
Appendix II Composition of CONTCORP | 402 |
Appendix III Composition of HISTCORP | 414 |
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adverbial American English AMPRINT aspect aspectual aspectual character BBC radio British and American British English BRPRINT Chapter clause structure clearly separate coded CONTBRE CONTAME CONTBRE Figure CONTCORP context corpus current relevance deictic zero-point denoting difference discourse topic distinction drunk elicitation test English Early MidEng examples express frequencies of main function higher HISTCORP John language lexical linguistic LOB and BUC LOB/BUC located wholly London-Lund Main verb forms major past-referring verb McCawley Middle English NONPRINT object that-clauses occur Old English Early passive past-referring verb forms past-time anchor perfect/preterite pluperfect predicate present perfect constructions present perfect forms Present perfect Preterite present perfect verb present tense present-day English preterite constructions preterite verb form pronouns proportion ratio relative clauses Relative frequencies seen semantic sentence specifiers statistically significant syntactic Table temporal location temporal reference temporal specification tense logic text categories verb forms according verb phrases verbal situation Vertical percentages when-clauses Wycliffite