This study investigated the influence of perspectival mode and direction of viewing on complex sentences with temporally related events. In order to verify the affectedness, 2,000 tokens were collected from two corpus engines such as the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) for formal English and the Movie Corpus for informal English. The results of this study showed that the interaction between the cosequential perspectival mode and the prospective direction of viewing had the most strong influence on the expressions with afterand before-clauses in both formal and informal English. In addition, the cosequential perspectival mode was more preferred in informal English while the antisequential perspectival mode was more frequently chosen in formal English. In terms of the combination, the cosequential perspectival mode was found to be more strongly combined with the prospective direction of viewing while the antisequential perspectival mode more frequently with the retrospective direction of viewing.
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
3. Method
4. Corpus Analysis
5. Discussion and Conclusion