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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Temporal adverbials"”.
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The ability of second language learners to assign tense at the sentence level: A crosslinguistic study
… tense at the sentence level: lexical items (temporal adverbials), gestures (indicating temporal references), and/or verb morphology. Data are reported for 169 learners of Italian, French, and Spanish at the first and third semester levels of L2 study at the University of Illinois at …
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A contextual analysis of definite and indefinite interpretations of tense
… In a discourse, times denoted by tenses and temporal adverbials are added to the context as salient. There may be multiple time intervals that are contextually salient, and these are available for the interpretation of subsequent temporal elements. That is, they may work as an antecedent of …
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Subatomic Semantics and the Active Participle in Egyptian Arabic
… predicates license past, present, and future adverbials even though these sentences encode only the present tense. In this dissertation, I argue that the logical forms of sentences with active participle predicates involve existential quantification over the states denoted by active participle …
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Discourse-level instruction on the acquisition of English present perfect in academic writing
… STEM field where PP predicates appeared without temporal adverbials and the other related tense-aspect forms (PR, PT) as well as the PP forms were highlighted. The sentence-level instruction group, on the other hand, read individual sentences, carrying those three target forms, from the same …