In a message dated 9/7/2007 1:00:37 AM Central Daylight Time,
rakko@CHARTER.NET writes:
> I find that aspect and tense are hard to pin down in my conlangs. Is
> there a good tutorial on tense and aspect on the web anywhere? Come
> to think of it, what books would people recommend? I know of the ones
> by Comrie.
>
> What I'd like is something to explain how different languages handle
> tenses and aspects -- what sorts of distinctions they make and what
> things they collapse together.
>
I found Chapter 15.0 of Rick Morneau's "Lexical Semantics" to be very helpful
regarding tense and aspect.
http://www.eskimo.com/~ram/lexical_semantics.html
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