Tense (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

✍ Scribed by Bernard Comrie

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The overall structure of this book is very similar to "Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)", by the same author, and that's exactly why I think it is a great textbook. "Tense" is a very well organised textbook about tense systems, and Bernard Comrie always makes sure to add examples from the widest possible range of languages.

Once again, I rate it 4 simply because of the glossing problems (not all examples are properly glossed), but the book is amazing.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Contents
......Page 6
Preface
......Page 8
1.1 Scope of the work......Page 12
1.2 Time and language
......Page 13
1.3 Location in time
......Page 18
1.4 Tense as grammaticalised location in time
......Page 20
1.5 Tense and deixis......Page 24
1.6 Basic and secondary meanings
......Page 29
1.7 Meaning and implicature
......Page 34
1.8 Tense, grammar, and discourse
......Page 37
2.1 Present tense
......Page 47
2.2 Past tense
......Page 52
2.3 Future tense
......Page 54
2.4 Binary tense systems
......Page 59
2.5 Tenseless languages
......Page 61
2.6 Combinations of absolute tenses
......Page 64
3.1 Pure relative tense
......Page 67
3.2 Absolute-relative tense
......Page 75
4. Degrees of remoteness......Page 94
5.1 Tense neutralisation
......Page 113
5.2 Sequence of tenses
......Page 115
5.3 Indirect speech in English and Russian
......Page 118
5.4 Future time reference in English subordinate clauses
......Page 128
6.1 Absolute tense
......Page 133
6.2 Relative tense
......Page 135
6.3 Combined absolute-relative tense
......Page 136
6.5 Tense combinations
......Page 140
6.6 Conclusion
......Page 141
References
......Page 142
Index of Languages
......Page 145
Index of Names
......Page 147
Index of Subjects
......Page 149

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Грамматика (общая теория);