Re: CHAT: relative tense

>In every language it's possible to indicate that something has happened in
>the past or will happen in the future, but those distinctions are not
>necessarily marked on the verb.

See my essay I posted here a while ago on lexical semantics for an example
of a grammar which does this. I transferred all temporal markers into a
separate caluse.

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Fabian
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