TEMPORAL RELATIONS IN A WORK OF ART: IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

Abstract

As any grammatical category provides variable forms for the author of a speech act, they are selected under the influence of human factor. Thus, grammar is personality dependent. Grammatical scheme of the situation described in speech is determined by the author’s picture of the world.

Keywords

• linguistic personology
• linguistic person
• tense
• retrospection
• simultaneity
• prognostics