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Tendolkar, Indira – Language Learning, 2008
In his article, Chris Burt focuses on the relationship between time and autobiographical memory. The question Burt puts forward is whether temporal markers in reports on autobiographic memories reflect specific temporal information or result from rather complex cognitive processing of time-relevant knowledge. The aspect of time is inherent to the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Familiarity, Long Term Memory, Semiotics
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Klein, Wolfgang – Language, 1995
Discusses the characterization of the meaning of the Russian perfective-imperfective opposition and concludes that these characterizations fail. The article maintains that aspects are temporal relations between the time at which some situation obtains and the time for which an assertion is made by the utterance that describes the situation. (33…
Descriptors: Russian, Semantics, Speech Communication, Tenses (Grammar)
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Matthews, Richard – Language Sciences, 1996
Compares the English modals "could,""might,""should,""ought to" and others with German "konnte,""durfte,""sollte,""mubte," referring to the diachronic perspective and using Reichenbach's (1947) grid of times and worlds. The article suggests that the variety of use of…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Cognitive Structures, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics