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• Absolute tense
  ...ic time]]) to an extra-linguistic reference point, typically the moment of utterance. ...of the situation or the topic time relative to the time of speech/time of utterance.
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• Comrie's (1985) theory of tense
  ...tive tense]]s, the "reference point is established relative to the present moment, and a situation is located in time relative to that reference point" (Comr ==Representation of temporal reference==
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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). Tense is regarded as a relationship between the time referred to and the time of orientation.
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• Tense
  ...emporal relation between the event described by the verb and the moment of utterance. ...ic time]] (Klein 1994) and an extra-linguistic reference point, the [[time of orientation]] (Huddleston & Pullum 2002).
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• Aspect
  ...roperties and so may belong to different [[aspectual classes]]. The aspect of a sentence is in many languages expressed syntactically and/or morpho-phono ...ation]], whereas tense tense relates the [[topic time]] to the [[moment of utterance]].
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• Habitual aspect
  ...85: 97). Some languages have tenses that are specialized to the expression of habitual aspect. ...ingle iterative situation rather than a characteristic or habitual feature of the person who is coughing.
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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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• 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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