First published in 1991, this book looks at tense in English, one of the most controversial
areas of grammar. Prior to the book's original publication, the problems and interest in the …

The following two sentences denoting psychological events are often considered to be each
other's mirror image when analyzed from the perspective of thematic roles. The two thematic …

This paper scrutinizes the proposals put forth by a number of scholars, to the effect that both
progressives and habituals are Stative. None of the reasons advanced in the literature …

The expression of habitual past meaning is an area of English grammar that has not been
extensively studied. Yet it has the interesting property of involving at least two overtly marked …

This thesis investigates lexical and grammatical aspect in two unrelated languages,
Sencoten (the Saanich dialect of Straits Salish) and Japanese. In particular, the main focus …

Abstract Be2, done, bedone, been done, stressed BIN, unstressed bin, and had are
elements of the African American Vernacular English (AAVE) system of tense, aspect, and …

This paper expands the analogy between events and count nouns, and between
states/activities and mass nouns in English to include other situation types, including …

Contrary to the traditional account of habitual aspect in English, the only marker of
habituality is will, with its past tense, would. Used to functions as a kind of anti-presentperfect …

This article examines extended uses of the progressive form (PF), especially the stative and
habitual functions, across Inner, Outer and Expanding Circle Englishes. Extended use of PF …

This dissertation presents a semantic analysis of the progressive of both English and
Icelandic, the only two Germanic languages that generally are considered to have fully …