This paper deals with time harmony in English narrative and it is concerned with the sequence of ... more This paper deals with time harmony in English narrative and it is concerned with the sequence of tenses and back shifting. It focuses on the syntactic and semantic analysis of time harmony that makes use of linguistic forms and constructions for the temporal interpretations of time relations in the novel (War Horse). Since, texts have actions and events that are sequenced and controlled by time relations, so tense sequence and back shifting affect temporal structure of the texts and writers make use of them in their descriptions of the events and actions. The problem lies in the sequencing and the interpretation of the used forms because such relations need a determination of the beginning of the actions and events with the forward movement and back shifting principle of the time relations. In an attempt to explain time harmony in English, the study gives a syntactic-semantic description of the novel (War Horse), since its texts show the time span, relations and temporal interpretations harmonized for events and actions. The paper aims at investigating the linguistic structures and forms that are used for the time harmony of events and actions in the selected English texts and comparing the occurrence and use of the time harmony rules, temporal relations and interpretations. The study is divided into four sections. The first section is an introductory one; it deals with the problem, the aims, and hypotheses. Section two provides a review of the previous studies on the time relations and interpretations. Section three will be employed to explain the time harmony of the narrative texts. It investigates the items and forms that are used for the temporal interpretations that show the time relations in the selected texts. Section four present the conclusions. Section One 1.1 Introduction Grammarians have been concerned with the sequence of tenses; they studied the succession and agreement of tenses in terms of grammatical rules in related clauses or sentences. This paper focuses on time harmony as a rule and principle for the formulation of the temporal constructions.
This paper deals with time harmony in English narrative and it is concerned with the sequence of ... more This paper deals with time harmony in English narrative and it is concerned with the sequence of tenses and back shifting. It focuses on the syntactic and semantic analysis of time harmony that makes use of linguistic forms and constructions for the temporal interpretations of time relations in the novel (War Horse). Since, texts have actions and events that are sequenced and controlled by time relations, so tense sequence and back shifting affect temporal structure of the texts and writers make use of them in their descriptions of the events and actions. The problem lies in the sequencing and the interpretation of the used forms because such relations need a determination of the beginning of the actions and events with the forward movement and back shifting principle of the time relations. In an attempt to explain time harmony in English, the study gives a syntactic-semantic description of the novel (War Horse), since its texts show the time span, relations and temporal interpretations harmonized for events and actions. The paper aims at investigating the linguistic structures and forms that are used for the time harmony of events and actions in the selected English texts and comparing the occurrence and use of the time harmony rules, temporal relations and interpretations. The study is divided into four sections. The first section is an introductory one; it deals with the problem, the aims, and hypotheses. Section two provides a review of the previous studies on the time relations and interpretations. Section three will be employed to explain the time harmony of the narrative texts. It investigates the items and forms that are used for the temporal interpretations that show the time relations in the selected texts. Section four present the conclusions. Section One 1.1 Introduction Grammarians have been concerned with the sequence of tenses; they studied the succession and agreement of tenses in terms of grammatical rules in related clauses or sentences. This paper focuses on time harmony as a rule and principle for the formulation of the temporal constructions.
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