01050nas a2200157   4500008004100000245003500041210003400076300001200110490000700122520060900129653002200738653003600760100001900796700001900815856005800834       1992                        eng d00aWhy bother about those tenses?0 aWhy bother about those tenses  a45–570 v173 a<p>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.</p>10aLanguage Contacts10aЕзикови контакти1 aKmetova, Tanya1 aSciriha, Lydia  uhttp://www.scripta-bulgarica.eu/bg/biblio/kmetova1992