Portal:Tense and aspect

This portal presents the most central topics in the study of tense and aspect.

Fundamental notions aktionsart -- aspect -- event -- situation -- tense -- topic time -- situation time Temporal categories absolute tense -- absolute-relative tense -- future tense -- past tense -- present tense -- relative tense Theories of tense Overview: Major theories of tense Comrie (1985) -- Declerck (2006) -- Klein (1994) -- Reichenbach (1947) -- Huddleston and Pullum (2002) Tenses of English Future progressive -- going to-future -- Past Perfect -- Perfect Progressive -- Present Perfect -- Progressive aspect -- Simple Past -- Simple Present -- will-future

Aspectual categories continuous aspect -- habitual aspect -- imperfective aspect -- perfective aspect -- progressive aspect Theories of aspect Comrie (1976) Categories of aktionsart accomplishment -- achievement -- activity -- aktionsart -- atelic -- dymanic -- occurrence -- process -- punctual -- telic -- state Ressources Robert Binnick's Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Research on Tense, Aspect, Aktionsart, and Related Areas