REPRESENTATION OF EVIDENTIAL MEANINGS BY THE PAST SIMPLE TENSE FORM IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Lutfullina Gyul'nara Firdavisovna, Kadyrova Luiza Basirovna
Kazan State Energetics University
Abstract. The article is devoted to investigating the representation of evidential meaning by the Past Simple tense form in the English language. The authors investigate the specifics of functioning of this form under representation of the situation of informing and the situation of the reported event, also considering the preferential compatibility in the poly-predicative complexes.
Key words and phrases: неличный доступ к информации, косвенная эвиденциальность, ситуация информирования, ситуация события, временная форма, темпоральный контекст, non-personal access to information, indirect evidentiality, situation of informing, situation of event, tense form, temporal context
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