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Tenses constitute a complex system of oppositions based on time, aspect, and temporal distance. Taking these oppositions as basic, this article deals with the stylistic properties that verbal tenses acquire in discourse. In addition, it presents an analysis of some stylistically marked uses of the imperfect, the future, the conditional, and the past perfect. In all these cases, the verbal tenses keep some of their basic properties but introduce temporal or aspectual changes that lead to pragmatic and stylistic changes closely related to certain narrative effects.

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Published on 30/09/00
Accepted on 30/09/00
Submitted on 30/09/00

Volume 15, Issue 2, 2000
DOI: 10.7203/caplletra.29.4971
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license

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