TENSE AND TIME IN ENGLISH VERB CLUSTERS OF THE ...

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(47) If you invite me I will attend
(cf. for example, Palmer 1979:135). For it will not be deponed, I trust,
that this politeness is achieved simply by signalling improbability. The
preludial confidence 7 deem it improbable that you will act in such a way
as to afford me gratification is, after all, singularly ill-chosen as a means of
ingratiation.
But all the above results, I submit, are explained by the proposal of
section 8. The effect of the r form in (40) is to validate even the most
recent communique; and therefore, at a time of mounting international
tension and mobilising armies, the speaker who selects (40) confides a
resolve informed by the latest known developments. On the other hand,
the effect of the