English S

simple past

passT simple
  • NASH 1968 170 (past absolute, past definite)

    NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

  • COMRIE 1985 24-25

    COMRIE, Bernard. (1985) Tense. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • QUIRK etal. 1985 189-190

    QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

  • LYONS 1977 705

    LYONS, John. (1977) Semantics. Vols. 1 & 2. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

  • COMRIE 1976 61 (Simple Past)

    COMRIE, Bernard. (1976) Aspect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • DOWTY 1986 37

    DOWTY, D.R. (1986) "The Effects of Aspectual Class on the Temporal Structure of Discourse: Semantics or Pragmatics?", in Linguistics and Philosophy 9, 37-61.

  • BYBEE etal. 1994 55, 82

    BYBEE, Joan, PERKINS, Revere & PAGLIUCA William (1994) The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Chicago : Univ. of Chicago.

  • KROEGER 2005 155

    KROEGER, Paul R. (2005) Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • RICHARDS etal. 1992 267

    RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT, J. & WEBER, H. (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.

  • CRYSTAL 2003 340, 418

    CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.

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