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List of publications on a keyword: «tense»

  • The Continuous tence forms of the English language in the cognitive-semiotic aspect

    Research Article
    Ethnic Culture Volume 6 No 4
    Authors:
    Elena E. Chikina, Elena D. Arabey
    Work direction:
    World languages and literature
    Abstract:
    The article offers a cognitive-semiotic analysis of English Continuous tense forms. The purpose of this study is to analyze the internal form of Continuous tenses which are considered as grammatical phraseological units. By describing the cognitive phraseosemantic modelling of ‘conceptual complexes’ through grammar means the authors endeavour to define and formulate basic cognitive-semiotic features of English Continuous tense forms. As a result it is concluded that the general cognitive model of the Continuous tenses actualises the discursive identity between the Actant-Subject and the Actant-predicate noun expressed by the gerund of the meaningful verb. This model expresses the semantics of a confined action developing in a limited spatio-temporal frame without a rigid attachment to the temporal markers of the beginning and end of the action. Different Continuous tenses show different positions of the observing subject in relation to the time of action, as well as modifications of the basic cognitive model of Continuous. For Present Continuous and Past Continuous, the specificity of their discourse syntagmatics is that the position of the observing subject differs. Future Continuous is characterised by a modified model of Actant-Subject and Actant- predicate noun identity, which develops an additional cognitive parameter. In this case the paradigmatic dependence of the predicate noun on the subject of an statement is observed. The paper also considers the cognitive model of the construction to be going to + infinitive as a special case of the cognitive model of Continuous.
    Keywords:
    English language, tense, semiotics, continuous tense, grammatical phraseological unit, internal form, cognitive-semiotic model
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  • Ambiguity of Future in the Past in the Modern English Language

    Proceeding
    History of culture, study of art and philology: modern points of view
    Author:
    Olga N. Selezneva
    Work direction:
    Филология и журналистика
    Abstract:
    The article raises the question of ambiguity of Future in the Past in expressing the future tense in the modern English language. The author of the article analyzes should/would + infinitive, its grammatical status and the expressed lexical meaning. The article notes that ambiguity of Future in the Past is mainly due to the homonymy of should/would + infinitive forms with the forms of the subjunctive mood. However, Future in the Past is a part of the verb system of tenses in the modern English language and it expresses assumption, intention or obligation to perform a future action from the past position.
    Keywords:
    Future in the Past, should/would + infinitive, subjunctive mood, tense, modality, the English language
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  • Peculiarities of using Future Continuous in the modern English language

    Proceeding
    History of culture, study of art and philology: modern points of view
    Author:
    Olga N. Selezneva
    Work direction:
    Филология
    Abstract:
    The article raises the question of the ambiguous grammatical status of the means expressing the future tense. The author of the article analyzes the Future Continuous form, its grammatical status and expressed lexical meaning. The article assumes that unlike other continual forms of the English verb tenses system, the main meaning of which is the expression of an action’s duration or a process, the main function of Future Continuous is to designate neutral future actions.
    Keywords:
    Future Continuous, means of expressing, the future tense, grammatical status, duration, neutral future
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  • Vnutrenniaia dialogichnost' kategorii budushchego vremeni (na primere mediinykh tekstov)

    Book Chapter
    Culture. Science. Education: modern trends
    Author:
    Tatiana A. Sukhomlina
    Work direction:
    Глава 2. Наука
    Abstract:
    The article describes the internal dialogic nature of the Future Tense category in mass media texts. On the example of various texts, the author comes to the conclusion that the internal dialogic nature of the category as one of the resources of word creation is becoming more and more vivid in the British mass media texts. As a result of the research, it is an obvious fact for the author that the form of presenting the article to reader in all genres of journalism is changing due to the decrease in ethical and stylistic norms of speech, determined by the progressive democratization of communication. The results of the novelty of the work are presented in the description of the Future Tense category as a complex phenomenon that has different author’s meanings because of the internal dialogue with reader, and determines the journalist's attitude to the presented information. The author of the article tells that the internal dialogic nature of the category is the basis of the future semantics, which is based on the author's desire to describe his beliefs and influence the reader using the language means of the Future Tense category.
    Keywords:
    the Future Tense category, mass media texts, the internal dialogic nature, new meanings, the language means of the Future Tense
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