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  • A '''future tense''' is a [[tense]] which indicates that an event occurs after the [[moment of speech]] (cf. According to Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca (1994: 244), a future tense expresses ''“a prediction on the part of the speaker that the situation i
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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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  • ...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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  • ...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). [[Secondary tense]] distinguishes perfect from non-perfect forms, the former being marked wit
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  • '''Absolute tense''' is a temporal category that locates a situation (or a [[topic time]]) to ...commonly distinguished: (i) [[present tense]], [[past tense]] and [[future tense]]. Present tenses locate situations at or around the time of utterance. Pas
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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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  • Klein (1994) uses three time spans for the analysis of tense: TU (time of utterance), T<sub>Sit</sub> (the time of situation) and TT (th ...TT and TU; possible relations are INCL(uded in), AFTER, BEFORE. The major tense relations can thus be defined as follows:
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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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  • A '''future tense''' is a [[tense]] which indicates that an event occurs after the [[moment of speech]] (cf. According to Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca (1994: 244), a future tense expresses ''“a prediction on the part of the speaker that the situation i
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  • ...m of a singular. In Lezgian, the future tense marker ''-da'' has a present tense meaning with a few verbs.
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  • ...tia' or 'accidents' may be reduced to the more familiar set of dimensions (Tense, Voice, Number, etc.) which form the traditional framework of word-inflecti
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  • ...minal modifiers and verbs:) [[gender (morphology)|gender]], (for verbs:) [[tense]], [[aspect]], [[mood]], (subject and/or object) [[person]], [[:category:vo
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  • ...n, the latter with three moods, two tenses, two numbers and three persons. Tense, number and person marking is merged into portmanteau suffixes. Beside thre
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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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  • ...lax quality of the short vowel phonemes; thus a shortened /iː/ is still a tense [i], not a lax [ɪ].
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