The present study presents results from picture description, sentence completion and grammaticality judgment tasks with four MA-speaking Broca’s aphasic subjects and four age, sex, and education matched control subjects investigating tense and agreement markers. Specifically, the study explores tense and agreement disassociation in agrammatic speakers of Moroccan Arabic as predicted by the Tree...

Eye tracking research on situated language comprehension has shown that participants rely more on a recent event than on a plausible future event during spoken sentence comprehension. When people saw a recent action event and then they listened to a German (NP1-Verb-Adv-NP2) past or futuric present tense sentence, they preferentially looked at the recent event target over another plausible targ...

The regular and irregular past tense has become a focus for recent debates about the structure of the language processing system, asking whether language functions are subserved by different neural and functional mechanisms or whether all processes can be accommodated within a single unified system. A critical claim of leading single mechanism accounts is that the relationship between an irregu...

This study aims to determine the problems faced by second-grade students in using simple present tense at (Madrasah Aliyah Negeri) MAN Dompu. The data collection used this research is interviews and tests, order find classify who have difficulty tense. method descriptive qualitative quantitative methods. population consisted of 5 classes sample was taken randomly, eight each class were as sampl...

This paper describes an application of the theory of contextual interpretation described in [Pul94] to the area of English tense and aspect, partly based on the analysis in [Pul97b]. We describe an implemented system which allows a user to ask questions about the location and movements of individuals tracked by the Active Badge system [WHFG92], and which will also run in the reverse direction, ...

While the present tense is typically taken to index the reference time to the time of utterance, such a restriction cannot capture noncanonical uses of the present in English, such as the historical present or play-by-play present. We adopt a bicontextual semantics for present tense, in which the two time coordinates are mediated by pragmatics, allowing us to bring canonical, narrative, and pla...

Children's productions of the affix -ed in past tense and past participle contexts (e.g., the boy kicked the ball vs. the ball was kicked) were examined in spontaneous conversations and elicited productions. The performances of 7 children with specific language impairment (SLI) were compared with those of 2 control groups of typically developing children (age matches, MLU matches). Children wit...

Tense logic is often said to possess insufficient expressive resources to serve as a theory of the nature of time. This paper counters this objection by showing how to obtain quantification over times in a tense logic in which all temporal distinctions are ultimately spelled out in terms of the two simple tense operators “it was the case that” and “it will be the case that.” This account of tim...

In this paper we investigate if it is possible and useful to reason about time within social/normative multi-agent systems (MAS) by taking into account the general guidelines of tense logic. We focus on the combination of special-purpose logics: we provide a formal account in which a minimal temporalization helps in reasoning about time in an abstract way. We also explore a new variant of deont...

in contrast to the grammatical category of mood in persian which has been subject to a number of studies, modality as a semantic category has not received the due attention it deserves. this study is fascinated to depict modal functions of tense in persian. in a sense, it tries to take account of the structures used by persian speakers to express their evaluation of the state of affairs. the re...