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Showing 1 to 20 of 308 for “"Tense"”.
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Dual Tense
This thesis is a description and analysis of work I produced at the University of New Orleans during my Graduate studies. My work centers on the theme of tension, human interaction, and the vulnerability and dominance of those interactions. I create paintings, drawings, and prints to articulate my …
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Past Tense Route Priming
… biased by experimental list context in past tense verb inflection in younger and older adults. During each trial, participants produced the past tense verb from a present tense verb. List context was manipulated across blocks such that context trials consisted of either regular past tense …
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Tense and temporal order
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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Tense and time in Japanese
This study deals with questions of tense and aspect in present-day Japanese, such as whether Japanese is an aspect language or a tense language or something else, what kinds of temporal relationships there are between the times indicated in the superordinate and subordinate clauses in the complex …
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Interlanguage variability in verb tense/aspect
… of interlanguage variability in the use of three tense/aspect forms: the simple present, simple past, and the present perfect. The need for research in this area comes from the problems encountered in the classroom. Language performance in one task sometimes does not reflect that in another. How …
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TEMPORAL PROPERTIES IN JAPANESE (TENSE, CONDITIONALS).
… with the relationship between morphological tense forms of Japanese, such as (r)u ("non-past") and ta ("past"), and their temporal interpretation. The goal of the research reported here is to establish a simple overall theory. The analysis focuses on the following sentence types: simple …
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Past tense marking in Chinese-English interlanguage.
This data study concentrates on the past tense marking in the interlanguage (IL) of Chinese speakers of English. Following the assumptions of Hawkins & Lizska, (2003), it is assumed that unlike native speakers of English, Chinese speakers of English have a higher level of optionality within the …
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An event restriction interval theory of tense
This dissertation presents a novel theory of tense and tense-like constructions. It is named after a key theoretical component of the theory, the event restriction interval. In Event Restriction Interval (ERI) Theory, sentences are semantically evaluated relative to an index which contains two key …
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Distributed exponence: The Construction of Remote Tense Phrases
… Island Kiwai and Urama. It is focused on remote tenses, a phenomenon found in both languages. Remote tenses involve locating events within subdivisions of the past and future and typically involve periods of time such as today, yesterday or any time before yesterday. One aim of the study is to …
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“Who Breaked the Rule?”: Rethinking English Past Tense Overregularizations
… around 3 years of age. These forms, called past tense overregularizations, show that children have implicitly discovered the past tense formation rule: namely, “add ‘–ed’ to a verb to create the past tense.” But does it take children until age 3 to discover such rules? This dissertation combines …
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The Tense-Mood-Aspect System of Hawai`i Creole English
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_376435305.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)
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An Integrated Analysis of the Hindi Tense and Aspect System
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:12:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7624094.pdf: 9680329 bytes, checksum: 18e3602dfbe179143944a6c20d51edc8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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A contextual analysis of definite and indefinite interpretations of tense
This dissertation analyzes tense, in particular the past tense, within English in the framework of formal semantics. Previous tense theories are either indexical or quantificational—whether tenses refer to time or an existentially quantified time interval prior to the time of utterance suffices for …
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Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese: Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Perspectives
… thesis is to describe the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese. Japanese grammarians studying the tense/aspect morphology of Old Japanese usually identify four suffixes (?(ye)ri, ?tari, ?tu, and ?nu) as kanry? ?perfect? markers and two suffixes (?ki and ?kyeri) as past tense …
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Future tense : an analysis of science fiction as secular apocalyptic literature
Religious apocalyptic literature appears to have been written in response to a situation of crisis in which the believers found themselves. It is the catalyst which provided the energy which the society needed in order to withstand that crisis, and it did this by radically inverting the dimensions …
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Tense, aspect and time concepts in English and Bahasa Indonesia: Pedagogical implications
… approaches to the teaching of English tense-aspect complexes to EFL teacher trainees in Indonesian tertiary institutions can be based. The study investigates how expression of time and related concepts in English and Bahasa Indonesia (BI) can be compared with particular regard to …
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Description and contrastive analysis of tense and time in English and Arabic
Summary available; p. xxxi - xxxiii
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A comparative study of the future subjunctive tense in Spanish and Portuguese.
A Comparative Study of the Future Subjunctive Tense in Spanish and Portuguese includes the classification of 634 examples of the future subjunctive taken from Cervantes' El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. The classification falls into three main groups: conditional sentences introduced …
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