汉语听说

Preface1 Some theroretical and methodoalogical preliminaries 1.1 Scope of the work 1.2 Time and language 1.3 Location in time 1.4 Tense as grammaticalised location in time 1.5 Tense and deixis 1.6 Basic and secondary meanings 1.7 Meaningand implicature 1.8 Tense,grammar,and discourse2 Absolute tense 2.1 Preaent tense 2.2 Past tense 2.3 Furure tense 2.4 Binary tense systems

Preface1 Some theroretical and methodoalogical preliminaries 1.1 Scope of the work 1.2 Time and language 1.3 Location in time 1.4 Tense as grammaticalised location in time 1.5 Tense and deixis 1.6 Basic and secondary meanings 1.7 Meaningand implicature 1.8 Tense,grammar,and discourse2 Absolute tense 2.1 Preaent tense 2.2 Past tense 2.3 Furure tense 2.4 Binary tense systems 2.5 Tenseless languages 2.6 Combinations of absolute tenses3 relative tense 3.1 Pure relative tense 3.2 Absolute-realtive tense4 Degrees of remoteness5 Tense and syntax 5.1 tense neutralisation 5.2 Sequence of tenses 5.3 Indirect speech in English and Russian 5.4 Future time reference in English subordinate clauses6 Conclusion:Towards a formal theory of tense 6.1 Absolute tense 6.2 Relative tense 6.3 Cmbined absolute-relative tense 6.4 Degrees of remoteness 6.5 Tense combinations 6.6 ConclusionReferencesIndex of languagesIndex of namesIndex of subjects

Bernard Comrie有这样一种才能：一般学者也许认为是毫无价值的材料，一经他收集在一起，便构成了极有价值的系统性的体系。在作者极富理论探索的讨论下，不仅从这些材料中发现了各种语言中相应的变体，而且揭示了这些变异的条件限制，显示了作者非同一般的敏感和洞察力。 本书的大部分叙述都没有一定的程式，也不在当代任何一种理论的框架之下，然而正如作者所说，从本书的论述本身，就可以建立起理论体系来。Comrie先生流畅而优雅的论述，揭示出即使像英语这样已经被“彻底”研究过的语言，也仍然可以进一步作时态的研究，遑论其他？