tailieunhanh - The grammar of the english verb phrase part 64

As far as the spoken corpus examples are concerned, sometimes very minor alterations have been made in the interests of easier intelligibility. These include the insertion of commas, some suppression of hesitation signals such as er^ and 'correction' of small production errors where the intended utterance is obvious, such as the amendment of you'll only buy able to buy to you'll only be able to buy. | 434 8. Temporal domains and relative tenses theoretical foundations VI. Summary of chapter 8 Terminology We started out this chapter with a review of some terms and concepts that had already been introduced in previous chapters especially in chapter 2 time of the full situation vs situation time time of the predicated situation only the latter of which is located in time by the tense form used homogeneous L-nonbounded situations for which every subpart is representative of the whole situation vs nonhomogeneous L-bounded situations for which the situation as a whole is different from any subpart of it several types of orientation time which is a time possibly a situation time with respect to which another orientation time usually a situation time is represented by a tense form as either T-simultaneous coinciding T-anterior or T-posterior similar temporal relations not expressed by tense forms referred to as W-relations the use of absolute tenses to locate a situation time in any of the four absolute zones i. e. portions of the time line defined relative to t0 either in the past zone coinciding with the past time-sphere or in any of the three present timesphere zones the pre-present the present or the post-present zone the use of relative tenses to relate a situation to i. e. make it temporally subordinated to or T-bound by an orientation time other than t0 and thereby expand a temporal domain set up by an absolute tense form. The one orientation time that is not T-bound by any other in a domain is the central orientation time. The absolute zone in which it is located determines the overall temporal nature of the domain. Thus in He said he would do it tomorrow the situation time referred to by would do forms part of a past domain established by the past tense form in He said or in the absence of such a past tense head clause by an unspecified central orientation time located in the past zone . There is a certain correlation between temporal .