Present Simple compared to Present Continuous

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Among the contemporary approaches towards word meaning Leech defined seven types of word senses: (1) conceptual meaning (2) connotative meaning (3) stylistic meaning (4) affective meaning (5) reflected meaning (6) collocative meaning (7) thematic meaning. Another approach within word semantics is the field theory of word meaning. The idea of this theory is to locate a word within a certain field and to show the differences between the various items. This field theory is useful for finding synonyms, is good for translation and learning whereas problems arise in drawing borderlines between fields, cross-classification and syntagmatic influences.

A second approach within word semantics is componential analysis (CA), introduced by Katz/Fodor in 1963.8CA first evolved in anthropological linguistics to study the relations between kinship terms. "The structure of a semantic theory". In:Language39, 170-210. meaning (concepts) into smaller parts (features, components, atoms). Words do not have unitary meanings but are complexes of components, e.g. the lexeme SPINSTER could be analysed as a complex of components of [FEMALE], [ADULT] and [HUMAN]. The complex "[XXX]" is the notation used for semantic components. Kempson made an important statement about the role of CA and the term "components":

Lucrare de licenta despre Present Simple compared to Present Continuous

Cuprins

Introduction...................................................3

Chapter I.
1.1 Category of tense in English language and grammar...............................................5
-The common aspects;.........................................5
-The constituent components;.........................................6
1.2 The Present Simple guidelines.........................................8
1.3 Present Continuous guidelines..........................................13

Chapter II.
2.1 Present Simple Tense compared to Present Continuous Tense.........................................21
2.2 Jack London and his short story "To Build a Fire"..........................................27
2.3 Analysis of examples of Present Simple and Present Continuous Tenses in short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London.........................................33

Conclusion.........................................39

Bibliography.........................................41

Appendix.........................................43