Theoretical English Grammar. Part 1. Morphology. Бочарова М.В. - 18 стр.

  Meaning            At/around the     Before the moment      After the mo-
                    moment of speech           of speech     ment of speech
  Type of op-                    3 – member equipollent
  position
o Each of the three members of the tense forms paradigm is represented by a
whole set of forms which also give info about the aspect (continuous / non-
continuous) and correlation (perfect / non-perfect).


o In the periphery of the functional semantic field of Temporality you can find
lexical means (adverbs and adverbials) and syntactic means (phrases; subordinate
clauses of time).


o The problem of the Future tense in English
 – 1 point of view: shall & will are auxiliary verbs � …


 – Another point of view: shall & will are modal verbs � …
    a binary opposition Past – Non-Past


 – shall & will are a case of grammatical homonymy.


 – shall & will are syncretic elements.


 – + the future meaning is often expressed by non-morphological means – Pre-
 sent Simple, Present Continuous and be going to forms.


THE MORPHOLOGICAL CATEGORY OF ASPECT OF THE VERB


o the central means in the functional semantic field of Aspectuality. The
general meaning of the field is the ‘temporal distribution of the action / event’
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