Sentence examples for analysis of tense from inspiring English sources

For a defense of the quantificational over the operator analysis of tense, see King (2003).

The next section will show that for an adequate analysis of tense and aspect the semantics of verbs, verb phrases and whole sentences has to be taken into account.

A Guardian analysis of Tensing's body-camera footage released by the Hamilton County prosecutor on Wednesday shows that on two occasions immediately after DuBose is shot, Kidd reinforced Tensing's claim he was dragged: "Yeah, I saw that," Kidd said in the aftermath of a split-second killing of DuBose, as Tensing recounted how he was dragged.

(Prior himself was critical of Reichenbach's analysis of the tenses, and described it as having been 'in some ways a hindrance rather than a help to the construction of a logic of tenses' (Prior 1967a: 13, Reichenbach 1948).) Scott's tense logic was rather different in style from Prior's.

(See, however, Cummings (2015) analysis of the evolution of tense in English from an SFL perspective).

An important contribution of this work is the extension of two different existing theoretical frameworks Hornstein's 1990 theory of tense analysis and Allen's 1984 theory on event ordering and the combination of both into a unified system for representing and constraining combinations of different event types (points, closed intervals, and open-ended intervals).

Subsequently much work has been done to refine the analysis, not only of tenses but also other temporal expressions in language such as the temporal prepositions and connectives ("before", "after", "since", "during", "until"), using the many varieties of temporal logics presented here.

A sequence-of-tenses problem.

After the past-tense "said," sequence-of-tense rules require "had been continuing" or "was continuing".

Sequence-of-tense rules demand a regular past-tense verb: "a sales agent asked whether the kiss was needed".

Still, Reichenbach's analysis is inadequate to account for the full range of tense usage in natural language.