Tense and Aspect in English: What Did We Learn by Cooperating?

Niels Davidsen-Nielsen

Tense and Aspect in English: What Did We Learn by Cooperating?

Niels Davidsen-Nielsen

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Abstract

In the 1990's the author cooperated with Carl Bache on a grammar of English. It turned out that the views they had previously arrived at individually on tense and aspect could be combined by operating with a fused system involving four ordered choices resulting in sixteen tense-aspect forms. In accounting for the meanings of these forms they also agreed to operate with a functional-instructional view. As a result, their analysis of tense and aspect differs from those proposed in other grammars. If that constitutes a step forward, it illustrates that cooperation may lead to
insights that it would be difficult to reach in splendid isolation.

Original language	English
Journal	RASK – International journal of language and communication
Issue number	38
Pages (from-to)	145-159
ISSN	0909-8976
Publication status	Published - Aug 2013

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Davidsen-Nielsen, N. (2013). Tense and Aspect in English: What Did We Learn by Cooperating? RASK – International journal of language and communication, (38), 145-159. http://sfx-45cbs.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/45cbs?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info:sid/sfxit.com:azlist&sfx.ignore_date_threshold=1&rft.object_id=110992357369454&rft.object_portfolio_id=&svc.holdings=yes&svc.fulltext=yes

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