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• Absolute tense
  '''Absolute tense''' is a temporal category that locates a situation (or a [[topic time]]) to ...se]]. Present tenses locate situations at or around the time of utterance. Past tenses locate situations prior to the time of utterance, and future tenses
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• Comrie's (1985) theory of tense
  ==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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• Portal:Tense and aspect
  ...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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• Historical present
  ...he common name given to the employment of the [[present tense]] to express past events in languages where this function is attested. [[Category:Tense]]
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• Reference time
  ...ce of R can be seen most clearly in the different representation of simple past and present perfect: simple past I saw John
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• Light verb
  ...the verb ''suru'' only contributes the past tense (''shita'' = ''suru'' + past) and the case-marking (-''o'') of the complement. John-topic Mary-to talk-Acc ''suru''-past
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• Dual mechanism theory
  ...t regular past tense verbs are generated by rules and the irregular [[past tense]] verbs are stored in the [[lexicon]]. [[Wug-testing]] also shows that both regular and irregular past tense forms are [[productive]]. (Albright and Hayes, 2003)
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• Huddleston and Pullum's (2002) analysis of tense
  ...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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• Reichenbach's (1947) theory of tense
  ...he different relations between S and R correspond to the tense categories ‘past’ (R-S), ‘present’ (R,S) and ‘future’ (S-R). The position of the r ! Temporal relations !! Tense category !! Traditional label !! Example
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• Klein's (1994) theory of tense
  Klein (1994) uses three time spans for the analysis of tense: TU (time of utterance), T_Sit (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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• Absolute-relative tense
  The English Past Perfect form (''had finished'') locates the event both prior to an innner-t * [[tense]]
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• Tense
  '''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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• Syncretism
  ...h]] ''bet'' (in ''I bet you ten pounds'') is syncretic between Present and Past, as seen in comparison with I give/gave you ten pounds. ...This syncretism extends to the first- and third-singular forms in in past-tense.
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• Portmanteau morph
  ...' to be a portmanteau representation of the [[verb]] ''take'' and the past tense suffix -''ed''.
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• Dimension
  ...the English present and past tenses [...] are categories of the dimension 'tense'."'' (Haspelmath 2002:61)
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• Suppletion
  The alternation between the English verb ''go'' and its past tense form ''went'' is an example of total suppletion. The alternation between ''
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• Radical reanalysis
  ...ructure of an expression or class of expressions that does not involve any immediate or intrinsic modification of its surface manifestation. Reanalysis may lead ...'' (also the past meaning of some of the forms, which were originally past tense, was lost) among other changes.
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• Habitual aspect
  ...s across languages: habituals, habitual-generic sentences and the habitual past. (Dahl 1985: 95-102) ===Habitual past===
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• Perfective
  ...ional focus (SF) is on a situation between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m., and the past tense indicates that within that period of time (TR) the situation is completed i * Bache, Carl. ''The Study of Aspect, Tense and Action.'' Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1995.
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• Tenses of English
  == 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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