Keyword

tense

Description: A grammatical category that locates an event or state in time relative to the moment of speaking or another reference point.

Primary topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (48%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q177691

OpenAlex ID: keywords/tense

The evolution of grammar: tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world

1995 · Bybee, Joan L. and Perkins, Revere and Pagliuca, William · Choice Reviews Online · 3,820

Verbs and Times

1957 · Zeno Vendler · The Philosophical Review · 2,516

The Parameter of Aspect

1991 · Carlota S. Smith · Studies in linguistics and philosophy · 2,397

Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing

1994 · Wallace Chafe · 2,108

Tense and aspect systems

1985 · Östen Dahl · 1,964

Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems

1976 · Bernard Comrie · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1,856

Tense

1985 · Bernard Comrie · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1,285

The Logical Form of Action Sentences

2001 · Donald Davidson · 1,030

The Creation of Tense and Aspect Systems in the Languages of the World

1989 · Joan L. Bybee, Östen Dahl · Studies in Language · 970

Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English

1973 · Barbara Hall Partee · The Journal of Philosophy · 945

Meaning and the English Verb

2014 · Geoffrey N. Leech · Routledge eBooks · 932

Production of subject-verb agreement, tense, mood, and negation in Italian agrammatic aphasia.

2015 · Fyndanis Valantis, Semenza Carlo, et al. · Frontiers in Psychology · 872

Missing Surface Inflection or Impairment in second language acquisition? Evidence from tense and agreement

2000 · Philippe Prévost, Lydia White · Second language Research · 864

The Grammatical Ingredients of Counterfactuality

2000 · Sabine Iatridou · Linguistic Inquiry · 814

Meaning and grammar: An introduction to semantics. By Gennaro Chierchia and Sally McConnell-Ginet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 460. $29.95.

1991 · Greg N. Carlson · Language · 807

A Neural Dissociation within Language: Evidence that the Mental Dictionary Is Part of Declarative Memory, and that Grammatical Rules Are Processed by the Procedural System

1997 · Michael T. Ullman, Suzanne Corkin, et al. · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · 805

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Tense And Aspect From Semantics to Morphosyntax

1997 · Alessandra Giorgi, Fabio Pianesi · 803

Semantics and cognition

2016 · Giosuè Baggio, Keith Stenning, et al. · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 755

Time in language

1994 · Wolfgang Klein · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 752

Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe

2000 · Dahl, Östen · 712

The Geometry of Grammatical Meaning: Semantic Maps and Cross-Linguistic Comparison

2003 · Martin Haspelmath · Psychology Press eBooks · 599

Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems

1978 · Michael K. Launer, Bernard Comrie · The Slavic and East European Journal · 599

More Structural Analogies Between Pronouns and Tenses

1998 · Angelika Kratzer · Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory · 573

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The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect

2012 · Binnick, Robert I. · Oxford University Press eBooks · 546

Imperatives and Commands

2010 · Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald · ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) · 528

Works count: 20,630

Citation count: 134,500