Publications

Publication details [#2376]

Costa, Rachel. 1972. The sequence of tenses in that-clauses. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 8 : 41–51.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

past | present | presupposition | subordinate clause

Annotation

Amongst other things, C. argues that the present is used in the complement to express presupposition of its present relevance, whereas the past is used when that relevance is firmly anchored in the past and not to be identified with the speaker.

Reviewed by

Brondeel, Herman. 1977. The non-application of the sequence of tenses after past embedding verbs in English and Dutch 'that'- clauses in terms of the speaker's commitment to the truth of the statement. In Putseys, Yvan, ed. Aspects of English and Netherlandic grammar. Acco. pp. 70–86.