In:
Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 13, No. 1 ( 1977-03), p. 43-52
Abstract:
Poutsma (1926: 441–447) says of sentences like: (I) I could have got the money easily enough. that ‘the notion of completed action in this combination [is expressed] not in the finite verb, where it logically belongs, but in the following infinitive’. He speaks of this phenomenon as ‘tense-shifting’; I have preferred ‘past tense transportation’ (PTT) in order to make it clear that it is only the Past Tense that is involved, I and to avoid confusion with the quite different but more frequent use of ‘tense- shifting’ in accounts of the ‘sequence of tenses’ in indirect speech, etc., where a direct speech non-Past is commonly said to be ‘backshifted’ to a Past Tense (She is ill ∽ He said she was ill ).
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0022-2267
,
1469-7742
DOI:
10.1017/S0022226700005193
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1977
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3073-9
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1466491-4
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7,11
