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From the ordinary speaker's perspective, register is perhaps as remote a concept as language system: in everyday life we encounter neither system nor register but text.
"To understand a speaker's intention, one must take the speaker's perspective.
The speaker's perspective is at first that of a young boy.
JFS has received a speaker's honorarium from Fresenius Kabi.
Read from a reader's perspective.
View yourself from an outsider's perspective.
For other (including nonclinical) staff a talk was given from the patient's perspective by a speaker from Diabetes UK, a talk on the diabetic clinic was given by a local specialist diabetic nurse and a practical session looking at computer data, risk assessment and routine procedures, for example in reception, was given.
Classical music flows from a speaker.
Thus, it is worth emphasizing here that adding reng and hai transforms the a sentences in 18, 20, and 21 from an epistemic reading to a metaphysical reading, rather than merely changing the temporal perspective from the speaker's utterance time to a past time.
Though unembedded keneng in both uses have a present temporal perspective by default, the metaphysical use, but not the epistemic use, allows operators such as reng and hai to shift the temporal perspective from the speaker's utterance time to a past time.
The semantics in 29e can only give rise to an epistemic reading, for it is about a possible past event seen from the perspective of the speaker's utterance time (i.e., a present temporal perspective with a past temporal orientation).
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