Events, States and Times. An essay on narrative discourse in English

This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts. The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb ‘now’ and its interaction with the meaning of tense. The case study motivates an ontological distinction betwee...

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Main Author:	Altshuler, Daniel
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	De Gruyter 2021
Subjects:	P1-1091 narrative progression abduction discourse coherence rhetorical relations states attitude reports indexicality indirect speech times anaphora Events aspect sequence of tense tense adverbs deixis bic Book Industry Communication::C Language
Online Access:	20170
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