TY - JOUR T1 - Why bother about those tenses? JF - Съпоставително езикознание / Сопоставительное языкознание / Contrastive linguistics Y1 - 1992 A1 - Kmetova, Tanya A1 - Sciriha, Lydia KW - Language Contacts KW - Езикови контакти AB -

The paper is concerned with the Sequence of Tenses (SOT) under conditions of bilingualism. The authors undertook fieldwork among Maltese University students. Unlike the Maltese mass media in English, in which SOT is strictly observed, the majority of informants do not apply it. The non-observance of SOT could be the result of interference from their mother tongue (permanent code-switching in family interacting). It could also be due to the attitude of Maltese students – speakers of English as a second language – to the „errors“ in SOT, which they consider communicatively irrelevant.

VL - 17 IS - 3 ER -