When-Clauses and Temporal Structure

ISBN-13: 9781138987098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 300 str.

Renaat H. C. Declerck

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Renaat H. C. Declerck