HISTORICAL PRESENT 再考 : Periphrastic Futureとの関わりにおいて

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The aim of this present paper is to explain the Historical Present, not in terms of the stylistic description which has generally been given, but in the light of its relation to the syntactic categories, Tense and Aspect. In this thesis the present writer first draws an outline of the studies on the Historical Present, how the distinguished traditional grammarians-Maetzner, Sweet, Curme, and Jespersen-treat of it, and then he introduces Steadman's theory. It is J.M. Steadman, Jr. who made an attempt to survey the origin of the Historical Present in English with special reference to the tense system, the Periphrastic Future, on the basis of Behaghel (1899), who maintained that the reason why the Historical Present doesn't appear in Old English and Old High German has something to do with the verbal aspect. The present writer, therefore, pays much attention to Steadman's study (1917), though admitting the inadequacy of its explanation. To make up for this insufficiency, it is necessary to take a historical point of view of English, the Norman Conquest (1066) and French influence on English in particular. This is the turning point where the Historical Present begins to flourish in English history, with an increase in the Periphrastic Future exoressions-shall or will + infinitive-.
名古屋女子大学の論文
1989-03-10