Tense and Aspect in a Spanish Literary Work and Its Translations by Gijs Mulder, Gert-Jan Schoenmakers, Olaf Hoenselaar, Helen de Hoop

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Transitive and Intransitive Selection Processes and Their Effects by Donason Addy D.

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Reported Speech as a Supraphrasal Unity by Zara Kostanyan

“…The analysis of supraphrasal indirect speech reveals that the paradigm of the given syntactic unit in the language system is formed in accordance with its structural-semantic characteristics which make it possible to distinguish it in the flow of speech. The lexical, grammatical, tense and stylistic factors prove to be important in the distinction of the supraphrasal indirect speech.…”
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‘If Our Love Existed in Chinese Tense’: Temporal Tensions in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Carissa Foo

“…Her uncertain command of temporality transposes from the context of grammatical tense to her love life, where her desire to forever be with her English partner conflicts with his belief that the future is not in the present. …”
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Understanding Temporal Relations in Mandarin Chinese: An ERP Investigation by Lijuan Chen, Yiyi Lu, Xiaodong Xu

“…Although existing studies have shown that sentence comprehension can be modulated by temporal connectives, they have mainly focused on languages with grammatical tense such as English. It thus remains unclear how temporal information is processed in tenseless languages. …”
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A Comparative Study of Tense between " Dayi Jan Napoleon" and "Don Quixote" Novels by Arezoo Sabzevar Ghahfarokhi, Mohammadreza Haji aghababai

“…In this research, a comparative comparison of one of the narrative elements (grammatical Tense) in two novels, “Don Quixote” and “Dayi Jan Napoleon”, has been done. …”
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A interacção dos tempos verbais e dos adverbiais circunstanciais na construção de um valor aspectual by Barbara Hlibowicka-Węglarz

“…In this paper we will analyze semantic relations between various types of adverbials and grammatical tenses. As we shall see, it is necessary that adverbials which occur in statements do not come into contradiction with essential values represented by morphemes of verbal flexion. …”
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Figures du temps discursif by Monique Sassier

“…Time in discourse, or time internal to discourse, is the result of having staged a supposedly external time (« real » – measurable or experienced in real life –, fictional or otherwise), by way, more specifically, of grammatical tenses. This article does not linger on the philosophical or perceptive problems connected to external time, nor on the technical question of how grammatical tenses operate ; the accent is placed rather on the complexity of the temporal anchoring represented by the discursive present and shows how its interpretation depends on the situation of utterance, distinct from the situation of production, as well as on the way a text is inscribed in the world (whether in daily exchanges, in the press, in a scientific opus, etc.). …”
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Mental Representations of Persian and English Absolute and Relative Tenses: A Contrastive-Psycholinguistic Approach by Masoumeh Mehrabi, Behrooz Mahmoodi- Bakhtiari

“…B) What were the mental representations of grammatical tenses based on the data from Persian language? …”
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