摘要
过去时的基本意义表示过去时间,但也表示非真实性与和缓的语气,因而形成一个多义范畴。文章主要探讨了英语动词过去时的实质———距离性及其背后的认知理据,从而揭示三种意义间的内在关系。
The Past tense is regarded as a polysemous category which has three different related meanings. The Past tense indicates past time, the unreality of an event or a state and functions as a kind of pragmatic softener. This paper discusses the remoteness of past time,cognitive motivation and relationship between past time use and non-past time use.
出处
《哈尔滨学院学报》
2006年第8期116-119,共4页
Journal of Harbin University
关键词
过去时
距离性
原型范畴
隐喻
past time
remoteness
prototype category
metaphor
