Figurative use of past tense in Russian: a case study
Daria Chernova
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Daria Chernova
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This article discusses past tense verbs in collocations with the future tense adverbial завтра ‘tomorrow'. It is shown that the past tense grammeme can express habitual, hypothetical and conditional meanings that are related through metonymy.
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This article discusses past tense verbs in collocations with the future tense adverbial завтра ‘tomorrow'. It is shown that the past tense grammeme can express habitual, hypothetical and conditional meanings that are related through metonymy.
Key concepts: Past tense, Adverbial, Linguistics, Present tense, Literal and figurative language, Psychology, History, Verb