Temporal expressions
NEW in version 2
Temporal markers are devices that refer to when an event referenced in the clause happened.
Description
Temporal expressions express the time of an action or event happened. Importantly, this should NOT be confused with Text-sequencing markers. While text-sequencing markers acts as signals to organize the argument, temporal markers are literally expressions of TIME.
Typical ways that temporal expressions are used include:
Whenclause to add information about the timing of an event relative to the other event.- Time related expressions such as
on weekends,at 11 pm, etc.
Examples
- Eventually participants began calling out terms as well.
- I know that we’re finishing on Friday in mainstream school.
- Scott first learned that he had an LD while he was filling out forms for college admission.
- In this article, when we use the term letter–sound knowledge, we refer broadly to all grapheme–phoneme correspondences.
- For example, when we are assigned a new phone number, we may treat each digit separately and need to write each of them down or rehearse them subvocally in order to remember them.
Distinguishing TEMPORAL from ENTERTAIN
Sometimes, we have instances where ENTERTAIN interpretation is more appropriate than TEMPORAL. An ENTERTAIN choice is appropriate where the idea presented in the relevant part of the text offers some conditions rather than literal time-related meaning.
- More comes later…..
Distinguishing from TEXT-SEQUENCING
When the temporal expression function as text organizer, rather than simply referring to when the event happened, then we should use TEXT SEQUENCING tag instead of TEMPORAL.
- Finally (Text-sequencing), for the Farsi group, none of the 10 linguistic variables bore a strong relationship with comprehensibility.
- Megan’s intonation indicated that she was not convinced. Finally (TEMPORAL), Emily (11) reminded the group that the task did not include identification of NPs, and so this was a side issue as far as she was concerned.