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  • ...or="white">This portal presents the most central topics in the study of<br>tense and aspect.</font> [[aktionsart]] -- [[aspect]] -- [[event]] -- [[situation]] -- [[tense]] -- [[topic time]] -- [[situation time]]
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  • ...ains a verb in the preterite tense (''went''). In "She goes to school" the tense of the verb is present (cf. Huddleston and Pullum 20022: 116). ...ked with the auxiliary ''have''. For example, "He may have known her" is a perfect form, whereas "He may know her" is unmarked (Huddleston and Pullum 20022: 1
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  • ==Absolute and relative tense== ...nd with the moment of utterance (Comrie 1985:122f). In [[absolute-relative tense]]s, the "reference point is established relative to the present moment, and
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  • ...en most clearly in the different representation of simple past and present perfect: present perfect I have seen John
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  • ...esented by ‘,’). The different relations between S and R correspond to the tense categories ‘past’ (R-S), ‘present’ (R,S) and ‘future’ (S-R). Th ! Temporal relations !! Tense category !! Traditional label !! Example
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  • The English Past Perfect form (''had finished'') locates the event both prior to an innner-textual r * [[tense]]
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  • ...cipio''' is a [[idiosyncratic]] property of Dutch verb-clusters in perfect tense. Compare (i) and (ii):
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  • '''Tense''' is traditionally defined as a grammatical feature or (deictic) category Alternatively, '''tense''' can be defined as a grammatical feature or (deictic) category encoding a
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  • ...[[present participle]] ''writing'' in (i), the [[participle of the perfect tense]] ''written'' in (ii), and the [[passive participle]] ''written'' in (iii): These forms are mostly used as [[periphrasis form]]s for tense-aspect and voice periphrases.
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  • == What is a Tense? == ...of the category '[[tense]]', there is a widespread understanding of what 'tense' basically means. Such an 'understood' definition is for instance given in
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  • ...le=Rothstein, Björn Michael. 2007. ''The Perfect Time Span: On the Present Perfect in German, Swedish and English''.}}): ...t Tense. Here, reference to definite moments in the past requires the Past Tense.
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  • ====Tense-aspect-mood==== There are five [[grammatical tense|tense]]-[[grammatical aspect|aspect]] forms in the [[grammatical mood#indicative
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  • *1971a. Tense and time reference in English. In C. Fillmore and T. Langendoen (eds.), Stu *1981f. Notes on the English present perfect. Australian Journal of Linguistics 1.81-90.
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