When-Clauses and Temporal Structure
1st Edition
Published on 13. February 1997
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-415-15488-8 (ISBN)
Description
Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and has been the focus of much attention in recent years. In this book, Declerck offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the conjunction when.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-15488-8 (9780415154888)
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Content
AcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: A typology of when-clausesChapter 3: The 'temporal conjunction' whenChapter 4: A model of the English tense systemChapter 5: WCs and temporal structureChapter 6: Canonical WCs and the expression of temporal relationsChapter 7: Special relative tense uses in canonical WCsChapter 8: Canonical WCs establishing a temporal domainChapter 9: The interpretation of canonical WCsChapter 10: Narrative WCsChapter 11: WCs other than canonical or narrative WCsChapter 12: ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex