query summary tense dear linguist subscribers month ago sent e mail inquiry tense complement clauses would like thank following people kind replies enclose summary answers special thanks linguists answered questionnaire frederik fouvry deborah miliam berkley david houghton annabel cormack gordon nicholson eleanor batchelder keira ballantyne gerald b mathias peter keiser deepest gratitude goes linguists sent friends papers raphael salkie time reference reported speech salkie r reed appear new journal english language linguistics renaat declerck constraints tense choice reported speech declerck r k tanaka studia linguistica 50 3 1996 nobue mori tense restrictions interclausal quantifier binding nunes j e thompson proceedings tenth eastern states conference linguistics 1993 discourse representation temporal dependencies nunes j e thompson temporal reference aspect actionality vol 1 semantic syntactic perspectives bertinetto v j bianchi higginbotham rosenberg sellier 1995 also greatful linguist let know pieces information concerning declerck tanaka paper kaneaki arimura summary follows question present tense ok use yes present tense ok ok note linguists answered questions others numerals show number linguists opinion 5 6 17 18 write opinions 1 thought oxford london yes 1 5 better 1 b thought oxford university london yes 1 4 better 1 c thought oxford street london yes 1 4 better 1 2 john said mary liar yes 5 1 1 b said mary liar yes 5 1 1 ok said stressed 1 c said liar yes 4 2 1 john said liar yes 5 1 1 3 john thought mary liar yes 1 5 1 b thought mary liar yes 1 5 1 c thought liar yes 1 5 weird even past tense 1 john thought liar yes 2 5 4 john told mary liar yes 4 1 1 past little better 1 b told mary liar yes 4 1 1 past little better 1 c told liar yes 4 1 1 past little better 1 john told liar yes 4 1 1 past better 1 e john told mary liar yes 4 1 1 past better 1 f told mary liar yes 4 1 1 past little better 1 marginally acceptable 1 g told mary liar yes 3 2 1 past little better 1 marginally acceptable 1 h john told mary liar yes 3 2 1 past little better 1 5 2 4 must found examples complement clause present tense judgment still put always main clause yes 2 less acceptable 2 present tense acceptable 3 little odder linguist made example present tense ok john always told mary head clouds think right 6 2 4 found examples complement clause accept past tense happen change situation complement clause someone lying e g lying someone still lying present tense ok case 5 2 ok 3 7 thought scotlant far yes 2 5 odd 1 past better 1 b scotland thought far yes 6 1 odd 1 c scotland thought far yes 6 1 odd 1 scotland far thought yes 6 1 odd 1 8 thought scotland far yes 2 4 odd 1 past better 1 b scotland thought far yes 6 1 odd 1 c scotland thought far yes 6 1 odd 1 scotland far thought yes 6 1 odd 1 9 thought scotland far yes 2 4 odd 1 past better 1 b scotland thought far yes 6 1 odd 1 c scotland thought far yes 6 1 odd 1 scotland far thought yes 6 1 odd 1 10 galileo believed earth moved moves yes 5 2 little odd 1 b believed earth moved moves yes 5 2 little odd 1 c john believed earth moved moves yes 5 2 little odd 1 point past tense implies specifc movement whereas present tense implies general movement 11 galileo believed sun moved moves yes 4 3 little odd 1 b believed sun moved moves yes 4 3 little odd 1 c john believed sun moved moves yes 3 4 little odd 1 12 said going yes 5 1 1 ok said stressed 1 b said going yes 5 1 1 c said going yes 5 1 1 said going yes 4 2 1 e said going yes 4 2 1 f said going yes 5 1 1 g said going yes 5 1 1 h said going yes 4 2 1 said going yes 5 1 1 13 know come yes 3 5 came better 1 b know tom come yes 3 2 2 came better 1 c know lost tooth yes 5 1 1 lost better 1 know tom lost tooth yes 5 1 1 lost better 1 14 know yes 2 6 better 1 b know tom yes 4 1 less acceptable 1 1 better 1 c know tokyo yes 4 3 better 1 know tom tokyo yes 5 1 1 better 1 15 told london yes 4 3 distinct nuance 1 b told tom london yes 6 1 1 c told yes 4 4 told tom yes 7 1 1 16 said london yes 2 4 distinct nuance 1 b said tom london yes 5 1 1 c said yes 2 5 said tom yes 4 2 1 17 13 16 found examples complement clause accept past tense happen put still complement clause pressent tense ok present tense ok 6 3rd person still introduces duration present tense ok 18 13 16 speaker addressing hearer directly judgments still change situations like speaker talking phone hearer distant place 2 yes 13a 14a 2 present would possibly acceptable linguist points 13a 14a ok ill feeling participants e g hearer angered surprised presence speaker sorry anything might missed present paper 114th meeting linguistic society japan held gakushuin university tokyo japan june 15 take results consideration others contribute future research immensely would like thank helped various ways minako nakayasu assistant professor kagoshima women college 1904 uchi hayato cho aira gun kagoshima 89951 japan nakayasu kwcu ac jp