ABSTRACT

Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and has been the focus of much attention in recent years. In this book, Declerck offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the conjunction when.

chapter 1|6 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 2|44 pages

A TYPOLOGY OF WHEN-CLAUSES

chapter 3|13 pages

THE ‘TEMPORAL CONJUNCTION’ WHEN

chapter 4|49 pages

A MODEL OF THE ENGLISH TENSE SYSTEM

chapter 5|38 pages

WHEN-CLAUSES AND TEMPORAL STRUCTURE

chapter 8|9 pages

Historic Present System

chapter 10|21 pages

NARRATIVE WHEN-CLAUSES

chapter 12|4 pages

CONCLUSION