Sentence examples for tense system from inspiring English sources

Its tense system is similar to that of Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, and its use of periphrastic verb forms (i.e., longer forms with several elements) with the auxiliary meaning "to do" goes further than either of these, especially in its final stages.

In his shadow, others made a whole range of imaginative claims about the supposed power of language, from the assertion that Native American languages instill in their speakers an intuitive understanding of Einstein's concept of time as a fourth dimension to the theory that the nature of the Jewish religion was determined by the tense system of ancient Hebrew.

Chinese never had a grammaticalized tense system comparable to that in the Indo-European languages (e.g. Schuessler 2007).

By using examples of the progressive/nonprogressive distinction in the English tense system, Bache offers a proposal for how features can be identified and how their systemic relation can be described.

Strangely enough, although we had some grammar at school and I studied linguistics, many facets of English grammar such as its tense system were relatively unfamiliar to me initially.

In addition to subject and object (agent and patient), the Mayan verb has affixes signalling aspect, tense, and mood as in the following example: Tense systems in Mayan languages are generally simple.

The suspension mechanism is supported by an elastomeric self-tensing system, which enables the cable/arm hinge to be precisely adjusted and the dilatation effects, compensated.

Malotki argues that in the Hopi language the system of tenses consists of future and non-future and that the single difference between the three-tense system of European languages and the Hopi system, is that the latter combines past and present to form a single category.

The Proto-Indo-European tense-aspect system (present, imperfect, aorist, perfect) was reshaped to a single tense contrast between present and past.

But while the game does its best to mimic Far Cry's tense stealth systems, it lacks the same basis in rich, procedural physics so the potential for flair and spontaneity are absent.

However, from a philosophical point of view, such a claim has had no serious role to play in the debate, even though the assumption of all future contingents being true is in fact what holds in the early tense-logical systems, Kt and Kb, introduced in (Prior 1967, p. 187) and in (Rescher and Urquhart, p. 68 ff).