The Conversational Historical Present Alternation.
The Conversational Historical Present Alternation.
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对话式历史现在交替。
作者：
Nessa Wolfson
会话式历史现在时（CHP）只出现在一种特定类型的叙述中，这里称为“表演故事”。与以往对这一特征的分析相比，本文的论点是CHP本身没有意义。相反，CHP和过去时之间的转换才是相关的特征。两个重要的约束条件——协调句中的时态顺序，以及以when开头的从句中不出现CHP——支持了CHP交替的理论，即CHP交替的作用是将事件彼此分开。交替本身就是一种表达特征，这一事实导致了对其他类型语言变异本质的猜测
The conversational historical present tense (CHP) occurs only in a specific type of narrative, here labeled a 'performed story.' In contrast to previous analyses of this feature, it is the thesis of this paper that CHP in itself has no significance. Rather, it is the switching between CHP and the past tenses which is the relevant feature. Two important constraints-that of sequence of tenses in coordinated sentences, and that of nonoccurrence of CHP in subordinate clauses beginning with when-support the theory that CHP alternation operates to separate events from one another. The fact that alternation is, in itself, an expressive feature, leads to speculation about the nature of other types of linguistic variation.*