Article outline
- 2.1Tense
- 2.1.1The ingredients of tense
- Speech time (ts)
- Event time (te)
- Location time (tloc)
- Perspective time (tp)
- Referencetime (tr)
- Integrating the ingredients
- 2.1.2Quantificational vs. referential tense
- Quantificational tense
- Referential Tense
- A note on definiteness
- Integrating the two accounts
- 2.2Aspect
- 2.2.1Situation aspect
- 2.2.2Viewpoint aspect
- 2.3Adverbials
- 2.4Tense and aspect in discourse
- 2.4.1The macro-structure: Modes of discourse
- Narrative / Narration
- Report
- Description
- Information
- Argument
- 2.4.2The micro-structure: Syntagmatic relations
- Temporal Anaphora
- Quantification and reference in discourse: Actualization effects
- 2.5The Present Perfect as a cross-linguistic category
- 2.5.1Diachrony and grammaticalization
- Stage I
- Stage II
- Stage III
- Stage IV
- Overview
- 2.5.2Synchrony
- Readings
- Curent relevance
- The Present Perfect: A quantificational tense form
- The PP puzzle
- Adverbial modification
- 2.6Conclusion
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