he Double System of Tense Forms Referring to Future Time in English  

Oleh:

Declerck, Renaat

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 12 no. 3 (Mar. 1995), page 269-310.
Topik: clauses; independent clauses; tense forms
Fulltext: vol 12, no 3, p 269-310.pdf (1.78MB)

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As is well known, some types of subclause in English differ from independent clauses in that they require a different tense form when the reference is to the future. We say Iwill be happy if the weather is nice tomorrow, but not *lam happy ifthe weather is nice tomorrow or *Iwill be happy ifthe weather will be nice tomorrow. As is clear from these examples, the two ways of referring to the future are subject to different conditions, and each has a distribution of its own. This article investigates the two systems in detail. It shows how they fit into a more general theory of tense, offers an explanation for their different distributions and examines the subtle semantic differences between their uses in clauses that allow both (e.g. resmcdve relative clauses).

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