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  • ...-- [[absolute-relative tense]] -- [[future tense]] -- [[past tense]] -- [[present tense]] -- [[relative tense]] [[Future progressive]] -- [[going to-future|''going to''-future]] --
    3 KB (318 words) - 18:17, 21 October 2009
  • ...e aspect when they are used in the [[present tense]]. With activities, the progressive aspect denotes the continuation of an action and with accomplishments it re
    1 KB (158 words) - 16:59, 18 July 2014
  • ...l auxiliaries and semi-modals). Moreover, under specific circumstances the present tense can used with future times reference. The meaning of the present predictive sense is comparable to the meaning of ''must'' and implies logic
    9 KB (1,339 words) - 22:00, 19 September 2009
  • ...ioanlly restricted to predicates with specific kinds of aktionsart (see: [[progressive aspect]]). * Bache, Carl. 1985. ''Verbal Aspect: A General Theory and Its Application to Present-Day English''. Odense: Odense University Press.
    6 KB (819 words) - 09:15, 14 June 2014
  • * The progressive aspect does not (normally) occur with static situations in English. ...ple present typically combines with static situations when it is used with present time reference, and only rarely with dynamic ones.
    11 KB (1,554 words) - 19:38, 21 October 2009
  • *present perfect
    26 KB (4,208 words) - 16:34, 27 July 2014
  • ...imperfective forms which can be interpreted as either '''habitual''' or '''progressive/conative/iterative'''. Sentences in these languages are defined as habitua ...certain degree of indeterminacy because it does not make reference to the present. It is therefore unclear whether the situation described still holds at the
    5 KB (728 words) - 21:32, 5 June 2010
  • ...n 4 for verbal morphology. Some vowels or nasals might undergo or set off (progressive and regressive) morphophonological processes (nasalization, labialization, ; progressive
    28 KB (3,744 words) - 12:54, 2 March 2018
  • * verbs in present tense which end with <-er>, e.g. ''kómmer'', ''léker'' Not only <r> but also retroflex consonants themselves can trigger a progressive assimilation. This rule is obligatory up to the word boundary. Across the w
    36 KB (4,969 words) - 13:01, 2 March 2018