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• Absolute tense
  '''Absolute tense''' is a temporal category that locates a situation (or a [[topic time ...the present moment (the time of utterance) as the deictic centre. Absolute tenses thus locate the time of the situation or the topic time relative to the tim
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• Comrie's (1985) theory of tense
  ==Absolute and relative tense== ...essarily) correspond with the moment of utterance (Comrie 1985:122f). In [[absolute-relative tense]]s, the "reference point is established relative to the pres
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• Portal:Tense and aspect
  [[absolute tense]] -- [[absolute-relative tense]] -- [[future tense]] -- [[past tense]] -- [[present tense]] == '''<div style="font-size:80%;">Tenses of English</div>''' ==
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• Tense
  ...e made between (i) [[absolute tense]], (ii) [[relative tense]] and (iii) [[absolute-relative tense]] (Comrie 1985). ...en absolute and relative tense is reflected in the use of time adverbials. Absolute time adverbials such as ''next year'', ''four hours ago'', ''in five days''
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• Absolute-relative tense
  Absolute-relative tenses are temporal categories that locate a situation both the some other situati
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• Tenses of English
  ...easy categorization.” Linguists' different views on the number of English tenses can be grouped into four different approaches (cf. König 1995). ...reflected in inflectional [[morphology]]. Accordingly, there are only two tenses, namely ‘past’ and ‘non-past’, as this is the only distinction that
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• Future tense
  ==Future tenses in European languages== The future tenses of European languages can be classified according to their sources of gramm
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