the moment of speech) are marked with the same forms as events in the present. This can be thought of as a system where events are marked as prior or contemporaneous to points of reference on a timeline.

Tense marking

Morphology of tense

Tense is normally indicated by the use of a particular verb form - either an inflected form of the main verb, or a multi-word construction, or both in combination. Inflection may involve the use of affixes,

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