Thursday, 17 August 2023

The Univariate Structure Of The Unmarked Simple Past Tense

Matthiessen (1995: 730):
Examples:

positive & finite: temporal: past & unmarked focus & no secondary & active

 

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To be clear, the tense of this verbal group is the simple past, realised structurally by V-ed, which is realised phonologically and graphologically by vowel change in this irregular verb:

fell

α past

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