tailieunhanh - The grammar of the english verb phrase part 65

The book falls roughly into three parts: chapters 1 and 2 provide essential background to the study of tense; chapters 3 to 11 gradually build up a picture of the function of tenses in discourse in English; finally, chapters 12 to 14 provide a more detailed analysis of some of the interactions between tenses and time advcrbials in English. | 9. Temporal subordination in the various time-zones I. Temporal subordination in a past time-sphere domain 444 A. The expression of T-anteriority in a past domain 444 The past perfect 444 Further remarks 446 B. The expression of T-simultaneity in a past domain 448 The relative past tense 448 Theoretical remark 449 C. The expression of T-posteriority in a past domain 450 The conditional tense 450 The past versions of futurish forms 451 D. The T-relation expressed by the conditional perfect tense 457 The conditional perfect tense 457 II. Temporal relations in a pre-present domain 459 The relevance of the W-interpretation of the present perfect clause 459 T-relations in a domain established by an indefinite perfect 460 T-relations on an up-to-now reading of the head clause 474 Shifting the domain after a continuative perfect 478 Temporal subordination after a continuative perfect 483 Pre-present domains and use of tenses summary 484 III. Present domains 485 Head clauses referring to a nonrepetitive present situation 485 Head clauses referring to a present repetitive hypersituation 487 IV. T-relations in a post-present domain 488 A. Definition of post-present domain 488 What counts as a post-present domain 488 B. T-relations in a post-present domain 488 Expanding a post-present domain 488 C. Expressing T-anteriority in a post-present domain 491 The past tense expressing T-anteriority in a post-present domain 491 The present perfect expressing T-anteriority in a post-present domain 493 D. The expression of T-simultaneity in a post-present domain 494 Coincidence with the central orientation time of a post-present domain 494 T-simultaneity with an orientation time coinciding with the central orientation time 498 E. The expression of T-posteriority in a post-present domain 499 T-posteriority in a post-present domain 499 The theoretical status of pseudo-absolute tense .