Past tense transportation: a reply
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Linguistics
- Vol. 14 (1) , 77-81
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700005673
Abstract
Huddleston (1977: 43), following some remarks by Poutsma (1926: 441–447), suggests that in (Huddleston's numbering) (1) I could have got the money easily enough there is past tense transportation (PTT), in that the CAN clause has ‘Unreal Mood (marked by the inflection on CAN) and underlying Past Tense’ and that the application of a transformational rule (PTT) allows ‘the Past Tense to be realized in the complement – by HAVE’. He proceeds to argue that the same is true of (5) (i) If he could have swum, [he would certainly have survived].Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Past Tense transportation in EnglishJournal of Linguistics, 1977
- Some Observations on Tense and Deixis in EnglishLanguage, 1969