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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Tense-aspect"”.
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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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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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Corpus study of tense, aspect, and modality in diglossic speech in Cairene Arabic
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Tense, aspect and text : processes of grammaticalization in the history of the English auxiliary.
… their interaction with the deictic category of tense. The domain of inquiry is text. The major concern is the argument that a full description of these constructions' development involves consideration of both functional (semantic- pragmatic) and formal (morphosyntactic) change. The bases of the …
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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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Discourse-level instruction on the acquisition of English present perfect in academic writing
… in relation to other semantically neighboring tense-aspect forms. While PP is frequently used to discuss previous literature or introduce a research trend in academic writing (Gunawardena, 1989), it is considered one of the most difficult forms to acquire for its semantic overlap with other …
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Concept-Based Instruction for Enhancing Understanding and Use of English Tense and Aspect Markers by Algerian Learners of L2 English
… EFL learners’ understanding of the concept of tense/aspect in English and their use of associated forms; past simple, past continuous and present perfect. CBI was compared to a traditional grammar presentation model based on PPP. Two intact classrooms (total N = 45 participants) Arabic native …
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Aspects of modality
… explanation for the relative ordering of tense, aspect and the various modals in Cinque's (1999) hierarchy, based on evidence in French and Italian. To make sense of the relative scope of modals w.r.t. tense and aspect, I start with the empirical puzzle that aspect interacts differently …
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The Koh verbal system
… meanings. Special attention is given to the tense-aspect-mood (TAM) system. The formally marked categories of the TAM system are relatively few in Koh. In fact Koh is a "tenseless" language in the sense that temporal deixis does not appear as a formal category in the verbal system. Rather, it …
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Marking time : the acquisition of tense and grammatical aspect by French-speaking learners of English
… explore the relative influences of lexical asp aspect and first language (L1) knowledge on the second language (L2) acquisition of verb morphology. The participants were adult French-speaking learners of English who represented a wide range of proficiency in their knowledge of simple past. The …
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A study of the auxiliary in Sesotho
… categories of verb phrases, namely, Tense, Aspect and Modality. The next major step was to develop formal tests which we used as defining characteristics for auxiliaries. We had to do this because the formal tests developed for English, for instance, do not work for Sesotho. The data …
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The morphosemantics and morphosyntax of the Malayalam verb
… cross-linguistic variation in the verbal domain: tense, aspect, finiteness and the perfect. It uses data primarily from the Dravidian language Malayalam to explore these questions. Past work on tense and aspect in Dravidian languages (Amritavalli & Jayaseelan 2005) has claimed that Malayalam, …
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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Dohok: A Comparative Grammar
… and pragmatics of copula clauses and the tense-aspect-modal system. The final chapter is the first quantitative study of Neo-Aramaic word order and compares the dialect of the Jews of Dohok with that of Sanandaj (Iran).
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Ateso Grammar: A descriptive account of an Eastern Nilotic Language
… Inflectional categories such as person, number, tense, aspect and mood are marked on the verb either segmentally or supra-segmentally. Tense is expressed suprasegmentally by tone on the nucleus of verb roots, while different morphemes mark person, number, aspect and mood. The discussion of Ateso …
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Grammar and grammaticalization in Manda: An analysis of the wider TAM domain in a Tanzanian Bantu language
… focuses on the “wider” TAM domain, i.e. on how tense, aspect, mood but also modality and negation are expressed in the language, offering a description of the form and function of the various markers employed. In addition, this work sets out to unravel the historical background of these markers …
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A Diachronic Analysis of Western Armenian Verbal Morphology
… historical changes, the complexities of tense/aspect marker shifts, the development of particles and participles, and the interplay between synthetic and analytical forms. The historical development of WA dialects is framed in the context of the two Sprachbünde (Byzantine and Ottoman) and …
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Enhancing EFL teacher trainees’ cognition through Systemic Theoretical Instruction (STI)
… there is no exact correspondence of the forms of tense/aspect in English and Spanish, these grammatical features seem to be particularly difficult to attain for learners of L1 Spanish. Thus, following a methodological design of mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative), this study aimed to …
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A grammar of the Neverver language of Malakula (Vanuatu)
… for either realis or irrealis mood. Further tense/aspect distinctions can be indicated with optional verbal morphology. The basic word order of verbal predicates is SVO, and the language is both head-initial and head-marking. A number of complex constructions have been identified in the …
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Temporal and Aspectual auxiliaries in Maltese
… better understand the realisation of grammatical tense and aspect in Maltese. We first consider the different temporal and aspectual interpretations related with the verbal and participial morphology. The main focus will then be the identification of different sorts of auxiliaries that contribute …
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Marrithiyel : a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory
… the boundpronominal number markers, and the tense/mood suffixes. The bound pronominals of the auxiliary are identified, and their various functions (including person, number, core role, tense/mood, and transitivity marking) outlined. Three further sets of pronominals, able to appear at a …
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