英語の完了形と日本語の対応表現 : 「テイル」と「タ」の用法を中心に

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Most Japanese teachers of English must have noticed that the Japanese forms -teiru, -teita, and -ta are used when they translate English sentences with perfect forms into Japanese. The Japanese -teiru form and auxiliary -ta share the same kind of temporal structure with the English perfect: -ta can have a perfective meaning and -teiru has a function to 'refer to a past situation which has present relevance,' which is the definition of the English perfect (Comrie 1976: 12). The present paper proposes to use the Japanese -teiru and -ta as temporal clues to comprehend the meanings of the English perfect tense. What the teachers may find important is the Japanese -ta must be used in a situation where a continuative event which the verb with it denotes can be interpreted as a completion of the event, and that -teiru and -ta can be used to refer to an event in the past and in the recent past (which is close to the present time) respectively, and -ta which refers to an event in the past can be a past auxiliary while -teiru referring to an event which is going on in the present time is a progressive marker.
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