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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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  • ...of speech|parts of speech]] because of their possible [[inflection]] in [[tense]], [[aspect]] and [[mood]], which is not possible for other parts of speech *[[primary verb]]s
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  • ...sented as a distinct structure with its own rules, concepts, and form. The primary structures that have figured in LFG research are: ...composed of [[attribute]]s, which include [[feature]]s such as number and tense or functional units such as [[subject]], [[predicate]], or [[object]].
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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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