Remote Past Tense (Q15040)

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a term
  • past tense
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Remote Past Tense
a term
  • past tense

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grammatical tense
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RemotePastTense locates the situation in question prior to the present moment, usually more than a few days ago [Dahl 1985,121; Comrie 1985,88]. Subsumes notion of PreHesternalPast tense, which locates the situation in question before that of an opposing hesternal past tense. [Bybee, Perkins, Pagliuca 1994, 98].
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