Tense category

Author: Komli
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Bernard Comrie possesses a remarkable talent: what might be considered worthless material by ordinary scholars, once collected by him, forms a highly valuable systematic framework. Under the author's highly theoretical and exploratory discussions, not only are the corresponding variants in various languages discovered from these materials, but the conditions that constrain these variations are also revealed, demonstrating the author's extraordinary sensitivity and insight. Most of the narration in this book does not follow a certain pattern and is not within the framework of any contemporary theory. However, as the author states, a theoretical framework can be established from the arguments themselves. Mr. Comrie's fluent and elegant exposition reveals that even a language as "thoroughly" studied as English can still be further researched in terms of tense, let alone others?