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- '''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 tim1 KB (183 words) - 09:05, 14 June 2014
- ==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 pres2 KB (339 words) - 17:44, 21 October 2009
- [[absolute tense]] -- [[absolute-relative tense]] -- [[future tense]] -- [[past tense]] -- [[present tense]] == '''<div style="font-size:80%;">Tenses of English</div>''' ==3 KB (318 words) - 18:17, 21 October 2009
- ...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''6 KB (863 words) - 20:49, 23 May 2010
- Absolute-relative tenses are temporal categories that locate a situation both the some other situati569 bytes (75 words) - 09:00, 14 June 2014
- ...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 that26 KB (4,208 words) - 16:34, 27 July 2014
- ==Future tenses in European languages== The future tenses of European languages can be classified according to their sources of gramm9 KB (1,339 words) - 22:00, 19 September 2009