Sequence of Tenses is a syntactic and semantic constraint in reported discourse whereby the tense of a subordinate or embedded clause is systematically adjusted relative to the tense of the main clause to maintain temporal coherence across clause boundaries.
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Rules vs. analogy in English past tenses: a computational/experimental study
Adam Albright, Bruce Hayes · Cognition · 2003 · 770 citations
Sequence of Tense and Temporal de re
Dorit Abusch · Linguistics and Philosophy · 1997 · 399 citations
The conversational historical present alternation
Nessa Wolfson · Language · 1979 · 268 citations
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The University of Western Australia
Perth, Australia
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University College London
London, United Kingdom
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University of California San Diego
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Nagaoka University of Technology
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