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• Huddleston and Pullum's (2002) analysis of tense
  ...verb in the preterite tense (''went''). In "She goes to school" the tense of the verb is present (cf. Huddleston and Pullum 20022: 116). ...is regarded as a relationship between the time referred to and the time of orientation.
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• Tense
  ...a temporal relation between the event described by the verb and the moment of utterance. ...time]] (Klein 1994) and an extra-linguistic reference point, the [[time of orientation]] (Huddleston & Pullum 2002).
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• Tenses of English
  ...tood' definition is for instance given in the ''International Encyclopedia of Linguistics'' (Bybee 1992: 223f.): ...eech, e. g. the past and future designate time before and after the moment of speech, respectively [...]. Tense is expressed by inflections, by particles
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• Aktionsart
  ...' is approx. equivalent to the English terms [[lexical aspect]] and [[kind of action]]. ...:sis'' (complete movement, actuality), which designate the two basic types of situation found in our natural environment (cf. Verkuyl 1993: 43). [[Lexica
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• Focal Colors
  ...t Hypothesis. Focal colors became the corner stone of the prototype theory of linguistic categorization. ...people distinguish between certain colors. Moreover, color terms are part of every language in the world, but they all categorize them differently. Ther
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• Tsez
  ...spoken by the Tsez, a muslimic people in the mountainous Tsunta district of southern and western [[Dagestan]], [[Russia]]. ...language|Arabic]] and Russian, mainly through loanwords and — in the case of Russian — even syntactically and stylistically.
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