Be going to: an exercise in grounding  

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Brisard, Frank

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Linguistics (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST & JSTOR) vol. 37 no. 2 (Jun. 2001), page 251-285.
Fulltext: 251-285.pdf (316.05KB)

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This paper investigates the semantics of be going to, starting from a schematic de®nition which interprets temporal meanings in terms of referential and epistemological attributes. The analysis is framed within the model of cognitive grammar, taking deictic syntactical constructions as instances of grounding predications and differences between them as triggered by aspects of construal and pro®ling. On the basis of corpus material from American and British English texts, it is concluded that be going to features a paradoxical but pragmatically plausible interpretation of the future as non-given yet present, with a pending event's being signaled or announced at the time of speaking.`

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