The Tense System in English Relative Clauses
A Corpus-Based Analysis
1st Edition
Published on 17. August 2011
XVI, 434 pages
978-3-11-086903-3 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2011
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English
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Berlin/Boston
Germany
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de Gruyter Mouton
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US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Content
- Intro
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Definition of the concepts bounded-unbounded and telic-atelic
- 1.1. Definition
- 1.2. Tests to distinguish unboundedness from boundedness and atelicity from telicity
- 1.3. Factors influencing (un)boundedness and (a)telicity
- 1.4. Zero-boundedness and zero-telicity
- 1.5. Left boundedness and right boundedness
- 1.6. General conclusion
- Chapter 2. Declerck (1991a): tense in discourse (part 1)
- 2.1. Declerck (1991a): basic concepts
- 2.2. Methodology and aim
- Chapter 3. The expression of temporal relations in past sector RCs
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. (W-)anteriority in past sector (N)RRCs
- 3.3. Simultaneity in past sector (N)RRCs: relative and absolute past tenses?
- 3.4. W-posteriority in past sector (N)RRCs
- 3.5. General conclusion
- Chapter 4. The expression of (W-)anteriority in pre-present sector RCs
- 4.1. The use of tense in the pre-present sector RCs: Declerck (1991a)
- 4.2. Constraints on the expression of (W-)anteriority in pre-present sector RCs
- 4.3. The tense system in the pre-present sector: some modifications
- 4.4. RRCs and NRRCs: different tense system?
- 4.5. General conclusion
- Chapter 5. The expression of (W-)anteriority and (W-)simultaneity in post- present sector RCs
- 5.1. The use of tense in the post-present sector: Declerck (1991a)
- 5.2. RRCs vs. NRRCs: different tense system?
- 5.3. Factors determining interpretation of verb forms in RRCs
- 5.4. General conclusion
- Chapter 6. Difference in contextual effects between mutually substitutable verb forms
- 6.1. General procedure vs. implementation of general procedure
- 6.2. Prediction vs. fact
- 6.3. Explicit location in time - explicit indication of temporal relation
- 6.4. Resultativeness
- 6.5. Gradual development vs. quick succession
- 6.6. Recent vs. distant situation
- Chapter 7. The principle of unmarked temporal interpretation
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. The PUTI (Declerck 1991a): theory
- 7.3. The PUTI in other works
- 7.4. The PUTI for embedded clauses (Declerck 1991a): examples
- 7.5. The PUTI ((a)-part) and RCs
- 7.6. General conclusion
- Chapter 8. Choice of binding TO in RCs
- 8.1. TO for (N)RRC situations
- 8.2. (In)direct binding in (N)RRCs
- General conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index
