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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      June 1985
      ISBN:
      9781139165815
      9780521281386
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139165815
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.23kg, 152 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
      Subjects:
      Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
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    Series:
    Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Subjects:
    Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
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    Bernard Comrie defines tense as the grammaticalisation of location in time. In this textbook he introduces readers to the range of variation found in tense systems across the languages of the world, bringing together a rich collection of illustrative material that student and specialist alike will find invaluable. This systematic account of the data is carefully integrated with a theoretical discussion of tense that is sensitive both to the range of tense oppositions found cross-linguistically and also to the constraints on that variation. For the most part the book is written without formalism, nor is it written within the framework of any specific current theory of linguistics. Nevertheless, as the final chapter makes clear, a formal theory of tense can build upon the insights gained here. For all readers, Dr Comrie's coherent and characteristically elegant account of this complex grammatical category will provide a solid basis for further research on tense, even in a language as thoroughly studied as English.

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