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Remarks on Salkie and Reed's (1997) ‘pragmatic hypothesis’ of tense in reported speech

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 1999

Renaat Declerck
Renaat Declerck
Affiliation:
Catholic University of Leuven
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Abstract

Salkie & Reed (1997) offer a ‘pragmatic hypothesis’ of tense in reported speech which runs counter to Jespersen's & Comrie's quotative or ‘sequence of tenses’ analysis as well as to the more semantically based analysis proposed by Declerck (1990b, 1991a). In doing so they also cast doubt on the model of the English tense system which was proposed by Declerck (1991a) and has since been further refined and elaborated in a number of articles and in Declerck (1997).

The present article goes into the many arguments that S&R advance, refutes them, and adduces additional evidence for D's theory and against S&R's ‘pragmatic hypothesis’.

Type
Research Article
Information
English Language & Linguistics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , May 1999 , pp. 83 - 116
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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