| 释义 |
non-past Gram.
[non- 2.]
A tense that is not the past tense; usually, the present tense, or the present and future tenses. Also attrib. or as adj.
1946Language XXII. 213 The non-past indicative of the copula, dá, is replaced by a zero alternant (i.e. drops out). 1951Trager & Smith Outl. Eng. Structure II. 60 Verbs are inflected for 3D Person SG. Non-past, Past, Past Participle, Present Participle. 1962S. E. Martin in Householder & Saporta Problems in Lexicography 157 In many parts of the world, verbs are usually entered under the plain present (or non-past) form. 1966Amer. Speech XLI. 201 The present, which many structuralists have preferred to call the ‘nonpast’. 1971Achivum Linguisticum II. 25 It is important to notice that [in Classical Latin] both potential and unreal conditions could refer to past and to non-past time. Ibid. 27 It is possible to visualize, in Old Spanish, the maintenance of the category of ‘non-past, unreal’, a category which..existed in Latin. 1972Language XLVIII. 473 One feature of emphatic transformations from verbal bases is the replacement of the verb form of the base clause by an emphatic form; this is a special form in the non-past or past corresponding to the simple forms in the same tenses. |