Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introductory Chapter
- 2 How to Deal with the Long Tradition of Going Ternary?
- 3 Binary Tense Structure
- 4 Naive Physics and Aspectual Composition
- 5 Levels of Interaction between Aspect and Tense
- 6 Binary Tense Structure and Adverbial Modification
- 7 How to Deal Binarily with ...?
- 8 Tense, Mood and Aspect
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
3 - Binary Tense Structure
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introductory Chapter
- 2 How to Deal with the Long Tradition of Going Ternary?
- 3 Binary Tense Structure
- 4 Naive Physics and Aspectual Composition
- 5 Levels of Interaction between Aspect and Tense
- 6 Binary Tense Structure and Adverbial Modification
- 7 How to Deal Binarily with ...?
- 8 Tense, Mood and Aspect
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Chapter 3 presents an updated version of the tense system of Verkuyl (2008) organized on the basis of the three binary oppositions. The update is needed in view of a number of improvements – substantively and notationally – due to later work. The main ingredient of this chapter is the strict distinction between the notion of present domain and the notion of the fleeting point ??, which has a counterpart in the distinction between past domain and then-fleeting point ??’. The parallelism in a binary tense system is argued to be a dominant force in its organization.
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- The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect , pp. 48 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021