Tense Switching in English Narratives: an FDG Perspective
The functions of the simple past and the present perfect appear to be well delimited in English according to prescriptive grammars. However, in actual use their distribution is still a challenging area of English linguistics since there are fuzzy cases in which this distinction is blurred. For examp...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0032 |