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Tense and Aspect

John Hewson

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John Hewson

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Much has been written in recent years on the verbal categories of tense and aspect, and writers such as Dahl (1985) and Comrie (1976, 1985) have had many interesting insights into the distinction between tense and aspect, but without being able to give definitive explanations of either category. Although critical of Reichenbach (1947), they tend to follow Reichenbach’s example of treating verbal morphology as a nomenclature for events in the real world. Guillaume, on the other hand, has coherent definitions of these two categories as early as (1929), defining tense as a representation of the time that contains the event, and aspect as a representation of the time contained in the event. These two representations were later entitled Universe Time (container) and Event Time (content) by Valin (1965). These definitions are successful because they treat verbal morphology as marking representations of events rather than the events themselves. The purpose of this paper is to show how every tense form has its own Immanent Aspect, since all tenses are necessarily based on the two contrasting representations of ascending and descending Universe Time.

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7e Colloque de psychomécanique du langage

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7e Colloque de psychomécanique du langage

Hôte : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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