The linguistic category of tense captures the human experience of time. As a grammatical means of expressing the conceptual domain of temporality, time specifies when a situation occurs through a set of forms and relations. In most languages, different verbal tenses denote present, past, and future events, which are ordered according to a point of reference and located along a timeline. Yet, large-scale typological surveys reveal the formal diversity and functional variation of tense systems and markers across languages and language families.
Magni, E. (2025). Tense. Amsterdam : Elsevier [10.1016/b978-0-323-95504-1.01079-6].
Tense
Magni, Elisabetta
2025
Abstract
The linguistic category of tense captures the human experience of time. As a grammatical means of expressing the conceptual domain of temporality, time specifies when a situation occurs through a set of forms and relations. In most languages, different verbal tenses denote present, past, and future events, which are ordered according to a point of reference and located along a timeline. Yet, large-scale typological surveys reveal the formal diversity and functional variation of tense systems and markers across languages and language families.File in questo prodotto:
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