Tense

By (author): "Bernard Comrie"
Genres:Nonfiction books  Science books  Language books  Linguistics books  Academic books  Humanities books  
Publish Date: 1985
Tense
ISBN0521281385
ISBN139780521281386
AsinTense
Original titleTense (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
SeriesCambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
An introduction to the kinds of tense distinctions made by different languages. Defines tense as the grammatical expression of location in time and attempts to capture the potential range of tense distinctions possible in natural language with examples drawn from a wide range of languages.