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  • ...ce of R can be seen most clearly in the different representation of simple past and present perfect: simple past I saw John
    1 KB (167 words) - 08:36, 28 September 2014
  • ...t E corresponds to the categories ‘anterior’ (E-R), ‘posterior’ (R-E) and ‘simple’ (E,R; cf. Reichenbach 1947: 296f). |1. || E–R–S || Anterior Past || Past Perfect || I had passed the exam by the end of the winter.
    2 KB (368 words) - 06:42, 22 April 2014
  • [[absolute tense]] -- [[absolute-relative tense]] -- [[future tense]] -- [[past tense]] -- [[present tense]] -- [[relative tense]] ...] -- [[Present Perfect]] -- [[Progressive aspect]] -- [[Simple Past]] -- [[Simple Present]] -- [[will-future|''will''-future]]
    3 KB (318 words) - 18:17, 21 October 2009
  • ...i.e. the time of utterance. The three [[absolute tense]]s are 'present', 'past' and 'future'. [[Relative tense]]s are defined relative to an additional re |2. ||E before S ||past tense || Five minutes ago John was in the garden.
    2 KB (339 words) - 17:44, 21 October 2009
  • ...''-en'' (also the past meaning of some of the forms, which were originally past tense, was lost) among other changes. ...y of historical syntax" (McMahon 1994:116) in reference to his idea that a simple modification in the speakers' internal grammars can cause all the syntactic
    3 KB (419 words) - 17:09, 29 October 2007
  • ...t or relative tense is indicated by the relationship between E and R (E,R: simple, E-R: anterior, R-E: posterior). By combining the relation between R and S |Anterior Past
    6 KB (863 words) - 20:49, 23 May 2010
  • ...etween the markers of future time references and other tenses. In English, past tense is marked with a suffix while the future is marked by an auxiliary ve While English expresses past and present tense with affixes, future time reference is often encoded with
    9 KB (1,339 words) - 22:00, 19 September 2009
  • ...to some other time. This other time may be the moment of speech, e. g. the past and future designate time before and after the moment of speech, respective ...ombination of both are recognized. In particular, the present perfect, the past perfect and the future perfect defy easy categorization.” Linguists' diff
    26 KB (4,208 words) - 16:34, 27 July 2014
  • Many simple [[morpheme]]s are exclusively segmental and consist of a single affix. Ther | '''3nsA-1nsP-NEG'''-see-NEG-PAST
    8 KB (1,138 words) - 12:47, 25 June 2007
  • ...some forms being ''yoł'' (present), ''ānu'' (present negative), ''zow-'' (past), etc. There are 4 morphological groups, according to the final letter of t ! past unwitnessed
    50 KB (8,020 words) - 17:31, 2 March 2018
  • ...es when languages get into contact. The reason for language contact is the simple need of communication between human beings with different linguistic backgr ...l and prestigious communities, like, for instance, Latin and France in the past, and English today. Moreover, there are languages that are characterized by
    18 KB (2,684 words) - 16:51, 22 May 2013
  • each C = simple C or Nasal + C each V = simple V from series 1 resp. 2 or V from 1a/b + V from 1.
    28 KB (3,744 words) - 12:54, 2 March 2018
  • ...ich was addressed to an uneducated social class and therefore written in a simple manner, produced an N limit of ca. 45 words, while that for the more diffic ...jdzińska, A. & Krzyżanowski, P.. ''Przeszłość w językowym obrazie świata: [Past in the linguistic image of the world]''. Lublin: wyd. UMCS, 81-99.
    26 KB (3,899 words) - 14:02, 28 November 2007