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AbstractKeywordsJEL classificationThis paper deals with time adverbials as lexical temporal sentenceelements, and presents the results of a time adverbials research in Englishand Macedonian. The research treats differences and similarities of timeadverbials from morphological, syntactical, and positional point of view.Corpus in this research is mainly literary and fewer academic workstranslated (fully or partly) from Macedonian into English by English nativespeakers. Main accent was put on the positional features of time adverbialsin both languages.The problems encountered in the course of the research are discussed inthis paper as well, such as: the translator, the type of chosen corpus, thetheoretical grammatical background present in both languages, theexistence of national corpora, etc.The paper emphasizes the importance of time adverbials in a linguisticsystem and aims to help: language teachers and learners to use timeadverbials correctly without the influence of the mother tongue;Macedonian translators to be able to formally identify and placesemantically different English time adverbials in their most preferredpositions; and linguists to deepen the knowledge of Macedonian as well asEnglish time adverbials, and further develop the field of lexical temporalmarkers in the study of linguistics.time adverbial, linguistics, positionLinguisticsAuthor(s)Journal of paperappearanceConference of paperappearanceTitle of the paperAbstractKeywordsJEL classificationJovanka Jovanchevska‐Milenkoska6th International ELTAM‐IATEFL‐TESOL Conference Empowering teachers fornew challenges in ELT , ELTAM (English Language Teachers’ Association ofMacedonia), Skopje, Macedonia, on 30th and 31st October 2010Time adverbials and their interaction with other temporal markers in thesentenceLanguages are able to express time through various grammatical, lexical, andother types of means. This paper explores time adverbials in the Englishsentence and their interaction with other temporal markers, such as tense,lexical aspect (Aktionsarten), inner lexical temporal meaning of themorphological elements in the sentence as well as their implications,position and scope of the time adverbials in the sentence, etc.Temporal markers, time adverbialsLinguisticsAuthor(s)Journal of paperappearanceConference of paperStojcevska Biljana, Popov Oliver, Milenkoski AleksandarEUROSIM 2010, 7 th EUROSIM Congress on Modeling and Simulation,38