Glimpses of English Tempoaspectual Blends

Abstract

The present contribution investigates in a first section what its author took the liberty to call ‘transposition of temporal reference’, including: Simple Present for past/future time, Present Progressive for future time, Past Simple/Progressive for present time, Past Perfect Simple/Progressive for hypothetical past, hypothetical Simple Past for future time, and  Past Progressive for future time in the past. The second and final section submits to the reader four types of extended structure featuring tempoaspectual blends – with two, three, four and five modal and/or passive and/or lexical auxiliaries – , some of them bona fide ill-conceived lexematic monstrosities.

Cuvinte-cheie: transpunere, referinţă temporală, forme temporale, cititor, tip, structură, interferenţe temporal-aspectuale

REZUMAT

În prima parte a articolului, autoarea cercetează aşa-numita „transpunere a referinţei temporale”. Dânsa analizează prezentul simplu cu sens de trecut sau viitor, prezentul continuu cu sens de viitor, trecutul simplu sau continuu cu sens de prezent, mai-mult-ca-perfectul sau perfectul continuu cu sens de trecut ipotetic, trecutul simplu ipotetic cu sens de viitor şi trecutul continuu cu sens de viitor în trecut. A partea a doua şi cea finală a articolului, autoarea analizează patru tipuri de structuri verbale extinse cu două, trei, patru şi chiar cinci verbe modale şi/sau verbe la diateza pasivă şi/sau unităţi auxiliare.

LANGUAGE OF PUBLICATION

English (main text and corpus)

UDC: 811.111`367.625

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Trask, R. L. (1993). A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. Routledge.

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Received: March 10, 2011 | Reviewed: March 22, 2011 | Accepted for publication: March 25, 2011

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