Discursive role of past tenses : a text analysis
The article discusses the meaning and usage of the principal past tense forms in English from a discursive perspective. Analysing short excerpts from a fictional narrative, the author argues that English past tenses in narratives have, besides their primary temporal-aspectual function, an impor ta...
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| Language: | deu |
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2002-12-01
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| Series: | Acta Neophilologica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/6454 |