When-Clauses and Temporal Structure

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-15488-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Declerck, Renaat H. C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Renaat H. C. Declerck