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Non-deictic tenses in conditionals
The English tenses are often claimed to be deictic, i.e. to make reference to the utterance time and localize some state of affairs relative to it. For instance, the simple past is proposed to convey that the eventuality described in its scope took place at some contextually given time in the past of the utterance time. Let us call the time with respect to which the tenses locate their eventual...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Classical Review
سال: 1889
ISSN: 0009-840X,1464-3561
DOI: 10.1017/s0009840x00194739